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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way to obtain payment for electricity supplied to the National Grid as a result of installation of solar panels at a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54149/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: 473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date the pandemic unemployment payment is transitioning into the jobseeker’s payment at the rate of €203 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (10 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The refurbishment of Greystones Garda Station is included in the ‘Capital Works programme 2016-2021’ for An Garda Síochána. Planned works include the refurbishment of the existing station and redevelopment of adjacent buildings. These works are currently contingent on the Coast Guard moving from its current location in the adjacent buildings beside the Garda station.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works is nearing completion of the analysis of options and costs related with the provision of  temporary accommodation for this project.  It is expected that this information will be submitted to the Department of Education in the very near future.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (11 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: Flood Relief measures were first identified for Portumna in the Shannon Catchment Flood Risk Management Plan (FRMP), which was published in May 2018. The proposed scheme, which would provide protection to 22 properties at a preliminary total project budget of €3.65m, was not included in the first tranche of schemes to be progressed in 2018, but the Office of Public Works (OPW) and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The rent being paid by the Commissioners of Public Works in respect of the offices at Block 1, Miesian Plaza, is in accordance with the terms of the lease. However, the Office of Public Works, OPW, has previously acknowledged in reply to parliamentary questions that an issue arose on which they should have engaged with the landlord and sought to recalibrate the rental rate as a result of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy will appreciate that I am not getting involved in a commercial negotiation on the floor of the Dáil. The Deputy has served as a Minister in the Government so she will know it would not be appropriate for me to do that. I have said in my reply today and in previous replies that the Deputy is correct that the OPW regrets that the issue arose in the first place. The OPW never...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I cannot do that and the Deputy knows that. I cannot negotiate on the floor of the Dáil on a commercially sensitive matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: Excuse me, I am replying to the Deputy. I cannot do what she has asked. Three meetings were held on 3 June, 24 August and 23 September. Another will take place and if subsequent meetings have to take place, the OPW will do that in a constructive fashion. We will do that on the basis that we want to get resolution to this matter. While this has been investigated by the Committee of Public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. Through the CFRAM, programme, detailed engineering analysis, assessment and extensive public consultation was undertaken for 300 communities throughout the country, including 90 coastal areas, that were identified as the most likely to be impacted by future coastal and fluvial flooding. One key output of the CFRAM programme is the flood risk management plans, FRMPs, that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I can provide a more comprehensive answer to the Deputy in writing. I was in County Louth last year, shortly after I was appointed, and met the Louth county manager. I fully appreciate the concerns that exist. The Deputy is correct. The counties of Louth, Meath, Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow and down into Waterford and east Cork are particularly exposed. The speed at which we are responding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The short answer is "No". For instance, what we will require in Dundalk are hard defences, flood embankments, walls, rock armour, coastal protection, demountable barriers, road raising, sluice gates, tanking, channel conveyancing improvements and road changes. There is a massive amount of work to be done in Dundalk alone, not to mention Drogheda, Baltray and Greenore. These are massive...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy for her question. I hope to visit Galway in the next couple of weeks. I know there is a significant amount of anxiety in respect of the situation there. The OPW has developed a climate change sectoral adaptation plan for flood risk management that was approved by the Government in October 2019. The plan identifies on a national scale how climate change could impact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not disagree with the Deputy for one minute. While this issue has not fallen on the OPW, the OPW is gladly taking on this responsibility because it is our bread and butter. We require the input of other Departments to ensure that everybody plays a responsible role in this, because the issue of how our coast will change is a societal problem. As the Deputy quite rightly said, our coast...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not think it is one of the most urgent issues; it is the most urgent issue, in my book, because of the number of people who live on our coast. Our largest urban centres, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford are all coastal. We also have a relationship with Northern Ireland, and Belfast and Derry are coastal. We are an island and the sea is rising around us. If we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The only commitment that I can give the Deputy is that from my perspective, for the last year this is the issue that has preoccupied me most in the OPW, in terms of exercising my Government colleagues to ensure that it is raised. While a lot of air, hot and cold, was spewed at COP23, COP24, COP25 and COP26, the issue of how Ireland is going to deal with its coastal defences and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW submitted Crossmolina flood relief scheme documentation to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for statutory confirmation under the Arterial Drainage Acts 1945 and 1995 on 28 September 2020. As part of this process, stakeholders were afforded a formal opportunity to provide comments on the environmental element of the proposed works. Following this consultation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: As was the case when another Deputy asked a question, I will respond in the same light. The OPW is at the mercy of a planning process and we have to adhere to it. We are the same as anybody who is applying for permission. In this case, we are applying for permission under the Arterial Drainage Acts and we have to go through a consent process. If we do not go through that process and have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Patrick O'Donovan: As is the case with confirmation processes we have recently been through, for example, in Blackpool in Cork, a small urban village in an old part of Cork city, which my colleague, the Minister, will be familiar with, just when we thought everything was ready to go, we were taken into a judicial review process at the last minute. None of us knows the length of time it will take to get through...