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)
1:50 pm
James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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-----but I brought the former Minister, Michael McGrath - the predecessor of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe - there for a visit after Storm Babet. We met residents there. I have been there. I want to get a sense for the people of Rathcormac and Castlemartyr, whose two schemes have been caught in tranche 2 for some years, going back to 2018 and even prior to that when the schemes were designed. Given that these settlements have flooded on multiple occasions, as their Government TD in the constituency I have an obligation to ask why this is not being done. I have not missed an opportunity to raise this. I have brought it up with the Minister of State in the Dáil Chamber and in the Committee of Public Accounts over the last 12 months, for anyone who is unaware of that fact. I want to ask, once again, whether the Department of public expenditure and the OPW can bring forward funding to get those two schemes knocked on, considering the damage that has been done in both communities.