Results 4,101-4,120 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: There is a danger that we would spend our money for flood relief on roads. I know, for instance, that the money was provided by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport from its budgets for anywhere along Loch Fuinseann where the roads were raised. There is money available to the local authorities for that. People contact me, including the Deputy, about getting works done here and...

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 first thing I would say is that last year we spent €15.338 million on channel clearing, some €5 million of which was spent on the tributaries coming into the River Shannon. We have spent money on the River Boyne, the River Glyde in Monaghan, the River Inny, the River Brosna, the Broadmeadow River, the River Corrib, the River Moy, in Donegal - the Deputy is gone but we did...

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: Bord na Móna is a stakeholder in the Shannon. It is part of the Shannon Group. It is part of the agreement to put the maintenance programme in place which, as I said earlier, is unprecedented. A working group has been put together to identify works we can do fairly easily and works which would take longer as a result of having to get consent and because of the environment and the...

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 one is doing a project that impacts on an SAC, one always has to work with the rules, directions, habitats and directives that are there. We have to work within all of that and we have to work within the law. In the Office of Public Works all of the agencies that are involved, such as the National Parks and Wildlife Service, are co-operating very well with us. The intent there is to...

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: We have prepared a document on repairing owners which has been completed but we want to make sure we have legal advice before we issue it. It will advise farmers on what they can and cannot do in terms of their own banks of land beside the rivers. The biggest difficulty of the farmers I speak to is not the cost but the fact they do not know how to go about getting the permissions to do 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: The size of the budget for this year is €2 million, which was announced last November when we announced we were bringing in the scheme. One of the difficulties we have with the home relocation scheme is trying to identify exactly the quantity we are dealing with. At this stage, having talked to the local authorities and gotten back as much information as we can on the potential...

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 Chairman is a national figure as well.

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: May I ask a question? When was this scheme completed or semi-completed?

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: What happens in that case is the local authority is the contracting authority but if it requires additional funding to do something, it would make an application to the Office of Public Works. There may still be funding. That is why I asked how long ago. The final account may not be finalised and funding could still be used through that account.

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: If there is an issue, when the Chairman stated that works were not allowed to be done by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, I presume that permission is there now.

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: We can address that. If the Chairman gets the local authority to contact the office, we will talk to it about 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: We can identify the area where the problem is and maybe the local authority could make an application for minor works, or maybe it has been identified as an area that is at further risk within the CFRAM. If we get the detail off the Chairman, we can come back to him as to which route it should go.

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: We do not have any compensation fund.

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: Waterways Ireland would be the first port of call. However, if we have a location, we can identify who is responsible.

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: Where there is navigation it is Waterways Ireland. It is responsible for navigation and, therefore, it looks after the weirs.

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: Normally, it could be either the OPW or the local authority.

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: It would not fall between the two. If the Chairman identifies where it is, we will be able to identify who is responsible for 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: There is more co-operation now between Bord Fáilte and the OPW in developing and promotion of sites, nationally and internationally. While a good deal of our visitors come from England, if the Brexit brings borders with different exchanges or whatever, there could be difficulties. Under Brexit, each Department and agency, including Bord Fáilte, is looking at the implications for...

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: Absolutely. We spoke earlier about the Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland's Ancient East and Dublin. Bord Fáilte is conducting a review of the idea of the midlands and the lakelands being developed as another tourist brand. We have a lot of gems which I have seen which I did not know about before I became Minister of State and which are not on the coast or down the Ireland's Ancient East...

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 Chairman talking about Jerpoint Abbey?