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Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: There are delays.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: So the Minister does not plan to write to the commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted have an opportunity to ask questions at this committee. I am sure the Minister of State knows I am here to ask about Castletown House, which is in Celbridge in my constituency. In October 2021, the OPW submitted a business case to the Department of public expenditure for the purchase of land at Castletown House. It was an unopposed offer of sale but it was rejected by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: In this case, it was two days and I have documentation from Mr. Conlon stating two days was not sufficient. How much notice would the Department of public expenditure normally get when a business case is made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: A lot more time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: A lot more time than two days. Why then, when the business case was made in 2022, was there again only two days' notice? What measures were taken to make sure this would not happen and why did it happen again that there was only two days' notice of the bid in the business case in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: Will the Minister of State come back to the committee on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I would appreciate it. I mentioned that this was an unopposed offer of sale. Did the fact it was an unopposed offer of sale lead to complacency when the OPW was drafting the business case? Did it assume it would be successful regardless of the content and quality of the business case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The Minister of State will get back to me in writing on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The first business case did not comply with the spending code requirements because of an incomplete multi-criteria analysis and an insufficient financial appraisal. Given the understanding expressed by the OPW of the cultural importance of Castletown House, and that the sale was unopposed, how did the business case fail to comply with the spending code?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The spending code and value for money are important. We are dealing with taxpayers' money. This comes up all the time. While driving home a few months ago, I heard about the loss of income to the State due to the fact that Castletown House has been closed for so long. I was gobsmacked to hear we had spent €500,000 on traffic management, a figure which would employ at least ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I know the Minister of State was not the Minister responsible at the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I appreciate they refer to the past and-or were before the time of the Minister of State and Mr. Cullen in the OPW. Would the Minister of State agree that while it was unfortunate that the OPW only gave two days' notice to the Department in one case, it was certainly careless to do so again the following year? Does he agree that the mess in Castletown House and Celbridge and the upset it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I will say it. I will say it is absolutely due to the incompetence of the OPW. I commend the fortitude and bravery of some involved. This involves access to heritage sites. People in Castletown House, Celbridge and Leixlip who have tried to protect pedestrian access to Castletown House and keep the avenue pedestrian should not be sullied by the misfortune of all that has occurred at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The Minister of State will get back to me on why this happened twice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: We want to work towards a resolution. We are all on board with that. We have to make sure we can open this to everybody.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to compensation to individuals who are subject to‘cowboy’ builders under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 337. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken by her Department to increase capacity for childcare services in north Kildare; the number of families currently on a waiting list for childcare services in north Kildare; the average waiting times on those lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36809/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by her Department to address wait times in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36811/25]

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses are very welcome. This committee is tasked with ensuring we can deliver critical national infrastructure faster and better. Strategic infrastructure development comes under remit and responsibilities of An Coimisiún Pleanála. I ask Mr. Mullen to give us examples of how the planning process has hindered specific projects. I understand he is happy enough with An...