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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW in partnership with Cork County Council are engaging proactively to progress a preferred option for a flood relief scheme at Ballymakeera/Ballyvourney, that will provide proposals for a Public Exhibition. This exhibition will inform a scheme that is technically, environmentally and economically acceptable to proceed to detailed design stage. Environmental consultants have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works that the information requested will involve the retrieval of Title Deeds and files, particularly relating to certain older properties, with the subsequent collation of the information. The Office of Public Works will revert directly to the Deputy as soon as the relevant data has been compiled.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: As set out in my reply of the 8thof February 2022, the Commissioners of Public Works have advised that there are currently five surplus sites in County Galway, which were assessed in line with central Government policies on the disposal of surplus properties. The expected date of transfer for each of the sites is set out below. Location Property Status ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW disposes of surplus property assets in line with DPER Circular 11/2015: Protocols for the Transfer and Sharing of State Property Assets and Circular 17/2016: Policy for Acquisitions and for Disposals of Surplus Property. Once a decision is made to sell a property to another State body, an independent, non-negotiable property valuation is carried out by the Valuation Office. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to place a holding reply on this PQ, pending clarification of details. A direct response will issue to Deputy Farrell.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The retention of the proceeds of disposals is dependent on funding required by the OPW to fund the purchase of other property assets. The OPW seek specific delegated sanction on an annual basis from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, based on annual funding requirements and investment proposals. Any amounts receipted over and above the delegated sanction are returned to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works (CPW) that the total purchase price of the four sites in Drogheda, Co. Louth was €9,700,000. The sites were purchased from Drogheda Borough Council for the Decentralisation Programme that was suspended by Government in 2011. The location, current and future proposed use of the four sites is as follows: 1. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW’s approach to managing vacant properties and sites is to establish if the property is required for State use, including the potential for it to be re-purposed for either Government Departments or the wider public service. A number of strategic properties or sites are retained in anticipation of potential State use/development in line with service demands arising from Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Flood Risk Management Plans launched in May 2018 included a recommendation to progress the design, planning and construction of a flood relief scheme for Bantry. A Steering Group, comprising of representatives from the Office of Public Works and Cork County Council, is in place and is progressing this Flood Relief Scheme to protect some 198 properties. The Bantry Flood Relief...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (15 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to initiate a scheme from within his Department’s capital resources to provide a wastewater treatment plant for the town of Askeaton, County Limerick, outside of the capital programme provided for under the Irish Water multi-annual investment plan given that it has been reported locally (details...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Water (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will take this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and providing me with the opportunity to address this matter. I understand that Irish Water has taken in charge more than 170 group water schemes since it took over responsibility for public water services from the local authorities in January 2014. Irish...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Water (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will certainly raise the issue the Deputy has articulated with the Minister of State, Deputy Burke. I recall that when the issue of group water schemes being taken in charge was discussed in a previous Dáil, a lot of the issues raised by the Deputy I also raised as a Deputy on the Government side. It is a pity that the Deputy's party was not as supportive of group water schemes...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Water (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am glad the Deputy has accepted it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys. I am aware of the concerns expressed by the residents of Dursey, the farming community which has animals on the island and those that promote tourism in the region regarding the recent decision by Cork County Council to withdraw the existing cable car service to Dursey Island in order to carry out maintenance works....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Unusual.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the Minister's original response, it is clear that whether by cable car or by boat, Cork County Council has a responsibility to provide access to the island. It is not acceptable to just cut it. Cutting it without consultation is not acceptable. It is the statutory authority that is obliged under the law, which we passed in this House, to provide access to that island for those...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is in the Minister's response to this as well.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Promotion (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy MacSharry for raising this issue. I am taking this Topical Issue matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. I should clarify the respective roles of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and its agency Fáilte Ireland in respect of national tourism development. The Department's role lies primarily in the area of national...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Promotion (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy answered his last question himself. He asked what the Government's role is and if it relates to policy. I answered that question. The first sentence in my initial response was that the role of the Department relates primarily to policy. I am a former Minister of State in the Department with responsibility for tourism. The role of the Department is the formulation of policy and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (17 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme was introduced by the Government in 2017 to address the very serious flooding of those homes that flooded in the Winter of 2015/16, including those homes flooded by turloughs.  To be eligible for assistance under this once-off Scheme, a homeowner had to meet a number of conditions, including that floodwater entered and damaged the building...