Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
9:30 am
James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Perfect. That would be appreciated. The second issue I want to raise is more of an issue with the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, to be honest, but it is all the same. I am very confused around why there is this system of tranches. Having tranche 1 and 2 schemes effectively means the OPW will not bother doing it until it can get a few bob off the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. This came into effect in terms of Rathcormac and Castlemartyr and when we go up the stream from Castlemartyr to Mogeely. Gleann Fia got absolutely battered. That estate was destroyed. The residents were very lucky that nobody was injured there. It was awful, and the ramifications of that still are. That tranche 2 system is the height of administrative stupidity. The consequences of it have huge ramifications for people's lives. Has the OPW had a conversation with the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to basically explain that the more we delay these schemes, the more the OPW ends up footing the bill every time there is a flood incident? Has that conversation been had with the Department?
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