Results 4,081-4,100 of 4,674 for speaker:Seán Canney
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: I want to have to it resolved, but I will not make a statement that it will be on that date. However, we will work hard to try to have it resolved.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: Is the Deputy finished?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: The figures on what we are doing in Harcourt Street are there in the report. I think the number of gardaí is higher than what the Deputy said but it is a moot point. The Deputy is right that it is the most critical building in terms of the teams of people that are in it. We have a lease on the place for the next six years so we have a window of opportunity to provide a permanent base...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: That is what was reported but I have no evidence of what it was bought for. It was bought in a bundle.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: The Deputy is raising a concern about overall estate management and how we are dealing with leases coming up and being ahead of the game. The way we are managing estates is being dealt with in the report and there is a full list of all of the Government buildings. Going forward, we will be smarter in our approach to these kind of things. I will not comment on the sale by NAMA because I...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: Yes, that is the percentage increase.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: There was outstanding rent when the lease was coming to an end. There was a gap in it.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: In the context of the rent demand in Dublin at the moment, to have a capped rent of €6 million over the next six years will prove to be of cost benefit.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: I can check that out for the Deputy in the files and come back to him.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: I do not have the detail of that particular site with me but I will visit it when I go to Donegal. Any site like that is well worth looking at and we will work with the local councillors, the committee and Fáilte Ireland to see what the best plan is and what can be done with it.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: I look forward to that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: After Galway.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: Initially, I can tell the Deputy, that there was a carryover of €7 million from the previous year which was spent in 2016-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: -----along with the full allocation. Therefore, effectively, in 2016, we spent in excess of €52 million on flood relief alone, which was a record spend for flood relief specifically in any one year. We spent the €45 million plus the €7.52 million.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: To date, the amount of funding which was approved to local authorities since the scheme was introduced is €37.621 million and the local authorities have drawn down €30.421 million. The value of works directly undertaken by the OPW is €1.5 million. The number of approved projects is 597 and the number of them that have been completed is 435. The estimated number of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: When the Deputy speaks about broadening it, I presume he means doing more work.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: I wrote to every chief executive of the local authorities inviting them to make more applications so that we can give them more money. However, there are a number of things to consider, including the capacity of the local authorities themselves to carry out these works or to even get the paperwork done and into us. More money can definitely be spent. There is no cap on what can be spent....
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) Seán Canney: As the Deputy knows, the local authorities get the roads budget from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Where roads have to be raised, there is a funding mechanism in place that has been applied by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The local authorities apply for funding for it. We do not have funding in that regard. Our primary objective is flood relief and...