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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: On what date did that change happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: If Mr. Farrelly is going to come in and say he is not going to talk about it, he should at least do us the courtesy of explaining why. That is all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: There is an inspection report from the commission on Saol Nua.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I was very supportive of the idea at the pre-legislative scrutiny session of broadening the powers of the Mental Health Commission but not based on this session because I do not see that the commission is currently using its powers very well when it comes to that particular facility.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I welcome the witnesses. I want to focus on flooding and flood prevention. I ask the witnesses to outline for me what the OPW's value-for-money measures are regarding passing ongoing flood works. What would be standard? I only have ten minutes so I ask the witnesses to do that in a relatively succinct way.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What about after construction?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am asking if, after the completion of a flood project, the OPW goes back to look at value-for-money measures and whether the project was effective, along with doing an assessment to ensure the risk of flooding has been dissipated in these areas and has not had an unforeseen impact somewhere else.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I ask Mr. Buckley to outline that for me relatively quickly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What does "continuously" mean? Is that every 18 months or every three years, for example? The OPW is also tasked with collating flood maps or data; is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What is the timing of that? Let us say the OPW finishes a significant project-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: It is hourly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What happens if the design has not been effective?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: What about Skibbereen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I have a few examples but let us take Skibbereen. There was a significant flood there in 2009 when 120 homes were flooded. Then a major project was done in 2016. From what I can see the number quoted for the project was €18 million, although I notice in the numbers we have received today that it is €34.5 million. Then there was a significant flood in 2020. The original...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: We could take other examples, but it is useful to have a real-world example.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Would Mr. Casey describe that as fluvial-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: It is fluvial flooding then, not coastal flooding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Skibbereen experiences coastal and fluvial flooding, so it is like a lot of areas, particularly in Cork and Dublin, where those two impacts are at play.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: The scheme failed, though.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: It met the terms of reference. Who sets the terms of reference for projects?