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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge that is a genuine issue. I understand the resource implication for a large scheme as against a small scheme, but what I hear all the time is that it appears there is a capacity issue in the OPW and that is not the fault of the Department's because it is into a judicial review, JR. I am sure it is not the case that departmental officials sit back. They have to service that...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: If the Minister of State is talking about legislation-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: That will not stop any of the JRs that are going through at present.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: First, that scheme is not in a JR. The second thing-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin wants to reduce the number of JRs and we can do that through a proper planning process-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: -----to make sure that, downstream, it is adequate and fit for purpose. The Minister of State mentioned me coming in crying about Donegal town. It is a good analogy because it is the people of Donegal town who have been left in tears on many occasions-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: -----when the waters have come in on them, time and time again, and they are seeing no response from the Government.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: I will ask the Minister of State this because I asked it two weeks ago in the Dáil. Some €157,000 was approved in 2018, but what we have is not in the first phase. He gave a response stating that it was not in stage one and he talked about some schemes potentially being moved up to stage one, but it appears Donegal town was not in that. He said: "...Donegal town is not in the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Have all the stages been approved to allow planning permission to be applied for?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: What stage is the process at?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: All big money. I am not going into the planning issues because I agree they exist. Let us take the scheme in Donegal town. It is a simple scheme. Houses are at risk of flooding and people have been in tears. The Minister of State mentioned that aspect. What stage is that project at and what is required to take it to the next stage?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Okay. That is great. I am glad that the Minister of State will, it is hoped, meet residents-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: I am glad the Minister of State will do that, and in fairness to him, he is available to meet people. Returning to this issue, though, because he talked about the big numbers and that there is no problem in the context of the billions of euro available, there is a desire for the Donegal town project to proceed. Is it not the case the Minister of State needs to give approval for it to go to...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Okay. What needs to be done?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: No, I am genuinely asking this question. What is it that needs to be done?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. As a representative for that area-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: I would never suggest I am unique. I am just making the point that as a representative for that part of the constituency, as are others, I have a genuine question I need to ask the Minister of State. I know he said he has answered it three times-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Pearse Doherty: The people and all the public representatives in Donegal want that scheme to go ahead, so can the Minister of State explain to me, because he says it is in tranche 2, if it is Donegal County Council, the OPW, the Minister of State or the Department which has the power to move it ahead? What are we waiting for?