Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Supplementary)
1:40 pm
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am not technical and the Deputy will appreciate that this is layman's language. Ultimately the main scheme has a measure to lower the level of the turlough when there is high rainfall, which provides protection. It is a technical process that we have come up with. Roscommon County Council, in parallel with the interim measure that has gone through An Bord Pleanála, is currently preparing an application to the board for the main scheme. As the Deputy will be aware, the main scheme was a pipe, of which 2 km have been completed and 1 km has not been completed. That has to go through a process again. It will take time to get planning permission and then to go back into the court to get the injunction lifted to enable the council to complete the remainder of the project. In the meantime, we did a highly concentrated body of work to get an application to the board, which went in in September, for an interim measure to deal with the issue for the people of Lough Funshinagh until the main scheme is concluded.