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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: What was the reason? I have heard a lot of stuff. I know there are issues but I still have not heard the reason.
- 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: Is there a capacity issue?
- 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 is it?
- 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: Is it a capacity issue within the OPW?
- 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 is the issue? Is it because Enniscorthy is a big town that the budget was cut by €70 million? I cannot understand what the Minister of State is saying.
- 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: Yes.
- 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: It is not about carryover. The OPW chairperson asked for €103 million, €112 million and €104 million; he was given €88 million. I want to know why there was such a cut in the budget.
- 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: Was the chairperson of the OPW wrong in his assessment 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: -----this is what is required to continue to provide existing service and implement the flood protection schemes in 30 areas within the CFRAM programme?
- 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 funding was cut by €70 million. He was left short €70 million.
- 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: Yes, on his profile.
- 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?