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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: I thought that the Minister of State would be telling me that. It is his Department that prepares the books. There is only one grant in the book of Estimates and that is the Glasnevin Cemetery grant. However, a grant was announced for a particular project. We do not even have to know the particulars of that project. I am asking where the payment of that grant is accounted for in the book...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: This was an announcement about grants. Therefore, it should have been in the Book of Estimates because it has not been drawn down. It might date back to a previous Minister's time but the fact is that these Estimates must reflect that in some way.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: Where is that in the Estimate?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: How much did the OPW spend?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: Did OPW spend the funding on it?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: What is happening with the rest of the funding that was allocated?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: In layman's language, that is a disagreement.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: I ask the Minister of State to intervene in this matter because there are potential costs to the State. It is not reflected in the Estimates, but it is a potential cost, whether legal or compensatory, to the State and it needs to be sorted out. Going down that legal route is one step beyond common sense. The Minister of State, Deputy Canney, wants to bring change to that Department and I...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: Is there no immediate response, as there was for damaged properties with the Irish Red Cross fund, etc.? In terms of the funds that have not been used, is there any funding left?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: What about the smaller schemes for towns such as Graiguenamanagh that have been knocking on the door for quite some time to get their flood relief schemes dealt with?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: It is a major scheme that must be funded directly by OPW, and deriving from an OPW plan.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: What comfort can a person living in Graiguenamanagh gain from that?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: On the political policy point, there are many examples of that type of flood relief requirement all over the country for years that have not been addressed and now these are being put into another pipeline to wait again. The OPW, in the context of its work, must react in a far speedier fashion because of climate change and we have not seen that. I am wondering what the Minister of State...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: What are the Minister of State's proposals to reduce that?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: Finally, on the council's expenditure, does the Department evaluate the outcomes of these minor flood relief schemes?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: What was the outcome of those on balance?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: Does the OPW visit the site as part of the audit?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: I refer to one issue related to the drainage maintenance. I see that €5.5 million was spent up to 31 May 2016 but there seems to be no plan available relating to embankment maintenance, so it seems as if under that particular heading, the OPW is spending money but does not have the complete plan or has not judged the overall outcome and it is not available.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: So there is a plan there?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016) John McGuinness: The OPW has it measured, as it were.