Results 181-200 of 2,095 for speaker:Kevin Moran

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: It is different schemes. I could talk to the Deputy about schemes up and down the country. Some of the schemes protect 700 or 800 homes. If that scheme was not in place, that is the total that would be damaged along with land banks and everything that goes with that. It is huge and has been successful in protecting homes, as we have done in the past and will do in the future. On the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We are working with the Tánaiste and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are only starting to collaborate on the way forward on that. We work closely together. The money will be there when the time is right. It is all about working together to push that forward.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: That is the data centre in Backweston.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: It is whole-of-government. We all come together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: No, I do not have the breakdown at this time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will take a note and get back to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: As the Deputy may know, the last time I was Minister of State, I introduced free access for people with disabilities. I set a target at that time that we would deliver 24 or 30. This time it is 30. It is tough - there is no point in saying it is not - but where we can do it, we do it. We do it in Garda stations, we do it in this building and we will continue to do it. Many people from...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I am sorry. I do not know whether it is the mic or something else, but I cannot hear the Deputy correctly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: For proposed services for the office, the 2024 Vote is €75,000, and €1.356 million is for the operational services.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We provide the cost of consultancy services, including value-for-money reviews at the office. The 2024 figure is €23,000.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: No, it does not.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: Potential acquisitions and disposal are commercially sensitive, but I assure the Deputy that the OPW will continue to seek and explore value-for-money purchase opportunities in line with the OPW strategy and the wider Government policy.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We are always looking at buildings.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We continue to look at buildings, and where we see we can buy, we do so. As I said, though, these are commercially sensitive. The Deputy can understand that himself.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We are engaged with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. If I were to say to the Deputy that we were going outside Dublin, every Minister and every TD would look for events in their constituencies. As the Deputy can understand, we are at the very early stages of the planning. My departmental officials and I are working with the Tánaiste. As the plan is unveiled, it will be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I knew that was coming.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: We will do that.