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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Castletown House is an eighteenth-century neo-Palladian country house built within an extensive estate.In 1994, the Office of Public Works took responsibility for Castletown House and estate. Initially, this was only 13 acres of land with the house. It has long been the policy of the OPW to seek to reunite the historic Castletown estate. In 1997, one hundred acres south of the house was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility for leading and co-ordinating the implementation of Ireland’s national flood policy, which includes the development of a planned programme of feasible works for flood relief schemes. In 2018, to facilitate the development of a programme of works, the OPW completed a strategic study - the National Catchment Flood Risk Assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is likely that climate change will have significant impacts on flooding and flood risk in Ireland due to rising sea levels, increased rainfall in winter, more heavy rain days and more intense storms. The Office of Public Works (OPW) has undertaken a range of initiatives to ensure that appropriate adaptive approaches are prepared for these projected climate changes and their associated...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is an existing Flood Relief Scheme in place in Mornington, Co. Meath providing protection to 162 properties. After the August 2023 flood event in the Mornington/Bettystown area a senior level group involving the OPW and Meath County Council was established to review the event and any additional measures in the Mornington/Bettystown area that may now be required. The OPW instructed RPS...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility for leading and co-ordinating the implementation of Ireland’s national flood policy, which includes the development of a planned programme of feasible works for flood relief schemes. In 2018, to facilitate the development of a programme of works, the OPW completed a strategic study - the National Catchment Flood Risk Assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: In 2018, the Office of Public Works (OPW) completed the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme – Ireland’s largest study of flood risk. This studied the flood risk for two-thirds of the population against their risk of flooding from rivers and the sea. An output of the CFRAM Programme, the OPW’s Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMPs) provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Additional time is needed to collate the information requested. The OPW will respond directly to the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of arterial drainage schemes completed under the Arterial Drainage Acts, 1945 and 1995, as amended. The location in question forms part of the Maine Arterial Drainage Scheme. The OPW has raised and strengthened several kilometres of flood defence embankments protecting this polder. The South West Region Office monitor...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The table gives details of buildings in the ownership of the Office of Public Works (OPW) in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area. The OPW does not hold details of buildings in the ownership of other State bodies. The day-to-day utilisation of these buildings is managed by the occupants. Building Name Address Eircode Occupier/Use Security Hut...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: OPW held constructive meetings on site with the National Monuments Service of the Department for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to agree details of the continued structural supports that will be needed to safeguard Cairn T. OPW’s Structural engineers are finalising detailed plans regarding permanent structural support work to replace the temporary prop currently in situ. It...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together. The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme – Ireland’s largest study of flood risk – was completed by the Office of Public Works in 2018. This studied the flood risk for two-thirds of the population against their risk of flooding from rivers and the sea. An output of the CFRAM Programme, the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme – Ireland’s largest study of flood risk – was completed by the Office of Public Works in 2018. This studied the flood risk for two-thirds of the population against their risk of flooding from rivers and the sea. An output of the CFRAM Programme, the Government’s Flood Risk Management Plans provide...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Government has committed €1.3 billion to the delivery of flood relief schemes over the lifetime of the National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 to protect approximately 23,000 properties in communities that are under threat from river and coastal flood risk. Since 2018, as part of a phased approach to scheme delivery, this funding has allowed the OPW, in partnership with local...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: In 2016, the Government established the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Coordination Working Group to improve coordination between all state agencies involved with the River Shannon to maximise flood risk mitigation. In addition you will be aware that there is a comprehensive OPW led programme to deliver flood relief schemes for communities the length of the Shannon, with Schemes in Athlone...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Waterways Issues (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of arterial drainage schemes completed under the Arterial Drainage Acts, 1945 and 1995, as amended. The OPW arterial drainage maintenance programme comprises 11,500km of river channel and 800km of embankments. The embankments are not in State ownership but are on lands that are, for the most part, privately owned. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) in partnership with Cork City Council are engaging proactively to progress the Glashaboy flood relief scheme for Glanmire. The Glashaboy Flood Relief Scheme was confirmed in January 2021 by the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform under the Arterial Drainage Acts 1945 to 1995. The scheme is being funded from the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW), through the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme, carried out the largest ever flood risk study in Ireland to date, which assessed 80% of properties at risk from Ireland’s main causes of flooding. It should be noted that CFRAM was a high level assessment of the areas deemed to be at risk of flooding. The OPW Flood Maps,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW will seek a suitable site for a new Garda Station in the Castletroy area when a Business Case is finalised by An Garda Síochána in relation to their long term requirements in the area.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) has a statutory remit for the maintenance of the Corrib-Mask-Robe Arterial Drainage Scheme under the Arterial Drainage Act, 1945. This channel will be programmed for maintenance in 2024. The location concerned does not form part of the aforementioned Arterial Drainage Scheme. Local flooding is in the first instance a matter for each local authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme – Ireland’s largest study of flood risk – was completed by the Office of Public Works in 2018. This studied the flood risk for two-thirds of the population against their risk of flooding from rivers and the sea. An output of the CFRAM Programme, the Government’s Flood Risk Management Plans provide...