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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will ask my line manager if he will organise a helicopter because I have had so many requests today that I will be flying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Government has committed to investing a sum of €81 million for the design and implementation of flood relief schemes for County Kerry. Tralee, Kenmare, Abbeydorney and Banna are all in the first tranche of schemes to be progressed, with Dingle, Killarney, Ballylongford, Listowel, Castleisland-Tullig in the second tranche. Engineering and environmental consultants were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: As I said, €81 million in investment has been given to Kerry County Council. The Deputy talked about coastal protection. Since 2009, €4.2 million has been given to the minor flood mitigation and coastal protection scheme. This also includes €2.9 million for coastal erosion work. My Department is very much working with the local authority, particularly in Kerry. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I know too well the problems people face. There is nothing as bad as getting up in the morning or going to bed at night when there is rain or wind. I know too well the suffering, worry and stress this causes whole families and the people around them. The Government is very much committed to delivering schemes. As I said, in the last few years we delivered between €68 million and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: The OPW and Clare County Council have an extensive programme of flood risk management works across Clare during 2025. Clare County Council is currently leading the delivery of flood relief schemes in County Clare in the townlands of Springfield, Kilkee and Shannon, Bunratty and Kilrush. These schemes are funded by the OPW from the Government's €1.3 billion investment in flood...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I could not agree more. As the Deputy said, there is a lot of good and positive stuff happening in County Clare. The Department is working closely with the local authority on the local drainage scheme and it is supported by the Government, which is very important. I am looking closely at the issue the Deputy spoke about. I am looking at vegetation clearing, getting into the rivers and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I could not agree more with the Deputy on insurance. My job is to protect communities up and down the country. My officials and I hope to meet the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, on this. The Government is very much focused on this issue and we understand it. I get it, the same as the Deputy gets it. I get requests to write letters of comfort as well and I wonder what it is all about....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Deputy has raised this in the committee and here in the House. As I said to him, a judicial review held up that whole scheme. We got consent and were ready to go, and then came the judicial review. Once it comes through the planning process, we will be on the ground. As I explained to the Deputy, I am working extremely hard to try to do this. He can play a part by going to talk to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: To be honest, I cannot say. However, I visited the castle a number of weeks ago and saw at first hand exactly the damage caused. I will take back with me that the Deputy got a response that it would be done in 2025 and revert to him in writing. I will pursue it because I fell in love with the castle when I went there. It is a fabulous facility.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: In defence of why it did not happen in 2025, and as I said in my report, it is due to weather. The type of material we use to do with the castle is all down to weather. If we do not get the weather, we cannot do it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I am not trying to cover for why it was not done but I know it is seasonal.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I have this right around the country where people, such as the Deputy, raise the question, but in defence of my Department, I have to say we have a very small window in which to do it. I will come back to the Deputy in writing to give it more flesh.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will have to go back to the Minister with all these requests.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I gave a detailed response earlier, but I fully appreciate and understand clearly where the Deputy is coming from. As I said to Deputy McCarthy, this is an area I am looking at. Ministers and Ministers of State have visited the area, including me. I know how important tranche 2 is, but I also know how important tranche 1 is. There are the bigger schemes we are delivering across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Deputy. Rathfarnham Castle was built in 1583 and throughout its long and rich history has been owned by Archbishop Adam Loftus, the founder of Trinity College, Speaker Conolly, and the Jesuit Order. The castle is one of Ireland's oldest Elizabethan houses. For most of the 20th century, the castle was owned and occupied by the Jesuits. The castle was declared a national...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 9 together. The launch in 2018 of the flood risk management plans trebled, to some 100, the number of flood relief schemes at design and construction. There remain some 50 schemes, referred to as tranche II, yet to commence work on their design, due to constraints of professional engineering services and skills in Ireland. However, the Government is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Deputy. The Taoiseach and I visited Midleton and met the people there. I always say in the House that from start to finish, a scheme takes 11 years. It is very hard for people to accept this, particularly when their houses and businesses have been flooded. I understand well the areas in Midleton and the pressures on them. With regard to the other areas in question, I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I thank Deputy McCarthy. I know the pressures he is under as an elected representative, as is everyone in this House. I was in this role before and I know the run of the Department but there are still constraints that do not allow us to deliver the schemes as fast as humanly possible. In regard to Lough Funshinagh, when we went into try to do the work there, we had not dotted our i's or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: Lough Funshinagh is a designated special area of conservation turlough and has experienced increasingly severe flooding in recent years. Roscommon County Council has implemented temporary flood defences, including road raising and water level management. The council is being supported by an expert working group comprising representatives from the Office of Public Works, OPW, the National...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will come back in.