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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: We are not going to see it close down. I am sure, as Chairman of the finance committee, he will not allow it to be closed down.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is this for 2024?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: At the end of last year, we purchased a building for use by a Department not too far away from here. I presume-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: One relates to the purchase of a property in Sligo town. There are also ones in Mullingar and Drogheda so these are all in rural locations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, expansion.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (1 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: In order to fulfill its reporting and planning requirments, Údaras na Gaeltachta gathers employment figures annually to the end of October. Research conducted by ABSEI of Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies, in which ten or more employees were employed in 2022, demonstrated that Gaeltacht businesses had a significant positive economic impact. The client companies had...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (1 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have received a deportation order from the Department of Justice and continue to be in receipt of a social welfare payment or payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4675/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: We will do that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. We have apprentice machine drivers working on flood risk, apprentice joiners, carpenters, stonemasons, upholsterers-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: An increase to €400,000 per annum was sought in the 2023 Estimates and €250,000 was provided for in the 2024 Estimates. Waterford City and County Council has sought an extension to the agreement until 2028 with the provision of €250,000 in each of the years from 2025 to 2027. Great credit has to go to that council as well. This has been substantially funded by the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is for State accommodation.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: On my behalf and on that of my family and the Fine Gael organisation in County Limerick, I offer sympathy to Finola Bruton, John's children, his sister Mary and our colleague Richard. I was struck by Deputy Creed's commentary about the torment our parliamentary party put John Bruton. I joined Fine Gale in the early 1990s, along with people like Deputy Phelan, the Taoiseach, Deputy Denis...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: This question refers to the amount spent on flood defence schemes in each of the past ten years. That is the question I propose to answer. The Office of Public Works, OPW, as the lead agency for flood risk management, is co-ordinating the delivery of measures towards meeting the Government's national flood risk policy. In 2018, to establish those communities that are at risk from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a substantive question on Midleton on the Order Paper that I will address presently. What the Deputy said about jobs not being started is not true and he should correct the record of the Dáil. Up to five major schemes are expected to commence construction in 2024. Yesterday, I was in my native city of Limerick giving consent to Limerick City and County Council to proceed to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said, I propose to answer a substantive question on Midleton later. The Deputy raised this issue at the Estimates meeting last week. I asked whether he, as the leader of his party, had any engagement with Cork County Council. I think his answer was "No". If he had such engagement, he would know his assertion here is totally unfair, particularly to the engineering staff of Cork County...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He knows and I know that this is a completely false narrative and is grossly unfair to the people working on the project. Regarding the humanitarian assistance programme, I thank the Ministers, Deputies Coveney and Humphreys, for responding so positively, not only in Midleton but in Louth as well. I presume the Deputy raised this matter five minutes ago...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Nolan. I know she has a strong interest in this and she has raised it on a number of occasions with me. In 2016, the Government established the Shannon flood risk State agency co-ordination working group to improve co-ordination on flood risk management between all State agencies involved with the river. The group, which is chaired by the Office of Public Works, provides...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: I acknowledge the constructive way in which Deputy Nolan has approached this. We spend an awful lot of time on the matter of the Shannon in the Department. The United States Army Corps of Engineers could not find a solution to this. The de Valera Government in the 1940s was bedevilled with it. Everybody else has looked at it as well. This will not be fixed easily. A number of agencies...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Waterways Ireland, as I said the last time, is the lead agency on this. That complicates it as well. Waterways Ireland is a cross-Border body. We are delighted that the Northern institutions are established. We analysed the powers that the agencies have. Some of them are derived from agreements that are enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement. It is not simply about creating a HSE for...