Results 2,361-2,380 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: This is not RTÉ; this is an Oireachtas committee. If the Deputy is going to ask the question, he can at least give me the courtesy of answering it.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: Again, as I said, with the risk of repeating myself, it will require a lot of preliminary work to be done in advance of making sure that scheme can go ahead. We want to make sure that preliminary work can be done. To do that, it will require resources within the council, which we are open to funding and resourcing once a business case is brought before us. We have had a lot of dialogue...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I do not have the copies of correspondence here, but I will revert to the Deputy after the committee meeting.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I am not but I will find out. I will ask and we will revert to the Deputy in writing.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: That is not true.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I will explain the fact that the OPW - again, this is to the benefit of the people who live in the town - has made multiple allocations to the council specifically relating to flood risk in the town, which is captured under the Vote we are discussing.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: It is within the hands of the local authority to correspond with us on that basis to request additional resources.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: We had this-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: Let me put it this way. Donegal County Council is answerable to the elected members of Donegal County Council. I think the Deputy’s party controls that council.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: Let me finish. If the Deputy can give it, he should take it.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: Let us be accurate.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: No, I am not, but the Deputy is trying to create the impression that-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: Let me finish. The Deputy asked me a while ago to let him finish; now he should hear me out. He is trying to create an impression that somebody or something is preventing Donegal town's flood relief scheme from going ahead. Let me be very clear. The record will show umpteen times that we want it built, as does the council. If the Deputy wants to play politics with it, that is his...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: He still has not mentioned it. The Deputy has not mentioned anything of what the OPW - its officialdom, engineers or outdoor crews - has done. The Deputy has not mentioned anything about the local authority staff members who have to go out to face these floods. He wants to come in here to try to play politics and stated that, in some sort of warped and twisted way, someone is preventing the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I do know fine well what the Deputy said.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: It was the local authorities, in conjunction with the OPW in the first place, that prioritise these and identify the risks.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I am glad the Deputy clarified that point.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I absolutely am not.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is the only person twisting words in here.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) Patrick O'Donovan: I cannot make this any simpler; we are fully supportive of the scheme. The Deputy is taking the attitude that I, as Minister of State, needs to come in and tell people to move on. If I did that in another part of the country, the Deputy would be the very one to ask about the public spending code and all of the gateways relating to it, the procurement process and the form of works contract....