Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
9:30 am
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I would like to raise what one might call two parochial issues. I am not normally parochial at committee meetings but I have to take the opportunity. Deputy Deasy referred to the urban regeneration and development fund. The Minister said in the Dáil earlier this week that it will be 2019 before actual allocations will be made. That is the €2 billion fund. There is a lot of optimism in Cork city that the docklands area, which, as the Minister is aware, has huge potential for regeneration, will benefit, and it is specifically included in the national development plan. The Minister might outline that process and the type of works or projects for which the fund can provide finance. In the case of Cork, it may well be bridges, for example, in order to open up access to the docklands. If possible, the Minister might provide more information on that.
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