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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy Brady.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If it helps the Deputy, we have Ms Morgan from the Department of public expenditure here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Returning to the question I asked earlier about the legal obligation, which year was that entered into?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Turning to Ms Morgan, would that have required the approval of a Minister, and which Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I ask her to come back to me on that, please.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am sure that would require ministerial approval in the general run of things.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The parent Department being the Department of public expenditure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Who was the Minister at the time? Was it Paschal Donohoe?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will not get into that part of it here. Deputy O'Connor is next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The type of work we are looking at across those five towns and villages would include channel widening and removing bridges where the eye is too small.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: What are other countries doing to shorten the time? That is what I want to know.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If it is taking 48 months for scheme development and preliminary design, somebody who had a full head of hair at the start of the process would be bald by the time a scheme comes on stream.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: At what stage is the Mountmellick scheme? Five stages are set out in the briefing. Is it at stage 3, which is detailed design?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is that stage 2?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Seven years on, we are still stuck at stage 1. At the rate this is going, a lot of us will not be around when the project is constructed. It has to go through five stages. The length of time it is taking is leading to an increase in costs but my main concern is the impact every time there is heavy rainfall. Unfortunately, due to climate change, rainfall levels are getting more intense....