Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works

2:00 am

Photo of Kevin MoranKevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy and I have had plenty of conversations inside and outside the Dáil regarding this flood scheme. As he knows, when the scheme got consent, the judicial review, JR, came in, which pushed back delivery of this scheme. We had to comply with environmental regulations. The scheme has gone back to the Department of public expenditure and reform. We are waiting on consent. I would love to be able to offer a stronger answer and say it is going to start next week, but until it comes out of the Department of public expenditure, I have nothing to say other than-----

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