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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: Some €33 million of the €45 million is contractually committed this year, which is not unusual. Many of these big schemes would be carried out over a two to three year window. The drawdown would very much depend on how the contract is governed. In my speech I set out the major capital programmes where we will see progress this year. It is a rolling programme and, as the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: Also the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The co-ordination is through the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, which is the lead Department. I believe I gave the information to the committee before the Deputy came in.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: I will go through it again. The initial estimate from the worst affected counties is that €65 million is the scale of the damage. That breaks down as follows: €20 million for roads under the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, €35 million on coastal, and €10 million on tourism. Within the coastal a large proportion would be marine and harbour related...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: I made the point to Deputy McDonald that the Government does not want to see any bickering between central government and local government. Last week I saw in Quilty, County Clare, that the local authority is getting on with the task. We have advised it to do the work and that we would reimburse the funding. If local authorities put in funds, there is no reason they cannot get on with the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: OPW crews have been working with local authorities throughout the west in places where we have that responsibility. I was in Foynes last week. The Shannon Foynes Port Company spent more than €100,000 in the past two weeks to address a serious situation that arose there. Private companies, the OPW and local authorities all have responsibility. A lot is happening and I do not want...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: We are ready to go on this when they are.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: When the Irish Insurance Federation signs off on it, we will go live.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The Irish Insurance Federation has a system whereby people who cannot get insurance can appeal that decision and see why-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: I fully agree with the Deputy. In our memorandum of understanding we hope that where we have done the work and put in the investment, for example, in Mallow, Kilkenny and Dublin, there is an understanding in the industry that a standard has been obtained. That has not happened thus far. An exchange of information between us and them will be the key in giving them the confidence to offer...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: That €68 million was used at the request of the local authorities to Government centrally.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: We have 100 days from the time of the storm to make an application to the solidarity fund. Given that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department, it will make the application on behalf of the Government given the scale of the storm. After the last major storm event only €13 million was drawn down out of a scale of damages worth more than...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: Part of that €65 million was roads, public lighting, etc. Of the €65 million, roads accounted for €20 million, coastal damage €35 million and tourism projects €10 million. Those are the broad headings from the initial assessment. I was in Sligo recently looking at the coastal erosion caused. Whole beaches were removed by the storm. We must take a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The local authority has the information and it submitted the total amount it seeks. The funds are allocated by way of the applications the local authorities make to us. If Arklow thinks it has a viable application and it is under €500,000, it will apply to us. We will then turn it around under the minor works scheme. Before the Deputy came in, I made the point to the committee that...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The €65 million figure is the assessment by local authorities of the cost of the damage. This is an initial assessment which the Government obtained two weeks ago. The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the lead Department, subsequently asked the local authorities to provide a clearer indication of what they might need, Department by Department. The OPW...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The Chairman makes a fair point. In 2002, €60 million worth of damage was caused in Dublin as a consequence of flooding. We have since initiated two major schemes. Other than along the seafront in Clontarf, Dublin suffered limited damage in the most recent storms. Our investment has saved a considerable amount of money in flood repairs. We have similar plans for Cork, but these...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: Property is the second highest administrative cost in the public service after pay and pensions. My office has been given the considerable task by the Government of rationalising the State's property portfolio so as to reduce that cost, as well as reflect the substantial fall in staffing numbers in the public service. The publication of the property asset management delivery plan,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Building Regulations Compliance (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The impact of the new Building Control (Amendment) Regulations, which come into effect on 1 March 2014, should strengthen and improve compliance with Irish Building Regulations. A statutory certification of building design and site construction will be required for the first time. When one considers the problems encountered in well publicised non-compliant projects, the additional work...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: I propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 67 together. A Flood Relief Scheme for Glanmire and Sallybrook is currently being advanced by Cork County Council with funding to be provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW). It is understood that the Council has signed a contract for consultants in the last two weeks to take the development of a scheme forward through design, planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Hayes: The Office of Public Works does not have legal responsibility for maintenance of former Land Commission embankments. There is no question of the OPW failing in its responsibilities in this regard therefore. The document provided by the Deputy has no statutory basis and originated from a meeting between OPW and Kerry County Council in 2007. Following the abolition of the Land Commission,...