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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: If a building shows signs, then an engineer is assigned and a safety measure is put in place, but as I said at the outset, to the best of my knowledge we have no buildings in Donegal, and I have nothing in front of me to tell me we have. There is no point in me saying what we are or are not going to do if we do not have buildings with the affected blocks. I ask the Deputy to come back to me.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: When the Deputy states I have introduced guidance, I am quite happy with that given that I am only two weeks in the job. I am quite happy to state that in four to five weeks we will be moving and changing how we do things. I am happy to say we get value for money. I went into government. I could have sat on the Opposition benches. I came into government to make changes. I know what it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Sorry?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: As stated at the outset, I meant quite clearly that the OPW does very good work. I want to continue with that work and I want to promote the brand and what I believe the OPW stands for. When we talk about some of the articles in the newspaper last week about the overrunning projects, when we go to some of these sites - heritage sites or old buildings-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: ----- and take off the roof - it could be a slate, glass or copper roof - the naked eye cannot see what is underneath when it comes to pricing it up. There can be other problems and issues. If I, or my predecessor, had turned around and stopped that project because it was going into an overspend, I would have Deputies in this House asking why there was a delay on this project and what was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works (OPW) delivers a wide variety of capital projects across flood relief works, heritage services and the estate portfolio. Most of its procurement is part of larger processes, such as flood relief schemes, property acquisition, construction, renovation and fitting- out of buildings. Contracts are awarded by the OPW following a competitive tendering processes in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event. The Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable scheme to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The 2018 Flood Risk Management Plans, identified a flood relief scheme for Thomastown, County Kilkenny, which will be funded under the Government's flood risk investment programme of €1.3 billion under the National Development Plan to 2030. The OPW has invested €46m in the Kilkenny City (Nore) Flood Relief Scheme that, since 2006, is protecting some 200 properties. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The 2018 Flood Risk Management Plans, identified 9 flood relief schemes for County Kerry, which will be funded under the Government's flood risk investment programme of €1.3 billion under the National Development Plan to 2030. Through three staff funded by the OPW, Kerry County Council is leading the delivery of four flood relief schemes for Tralee, Kenmare, Banna and Abbeydorney...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: A Flood Relief Scheme has been identified for Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, which will be funded under the Government's flood risk management investment programme of almost €1.3 billion under the National Development Plan to 2030. The towns of Graiguenamanagh in County Kilkenny and Tinnahinch in County Carlow have a history of flooding. They are separated by the River Barrow...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management or CFRAM Programme – Ireland’s largest study of flood risk – was completed by the Office of Public Works in 2018, with Ballinhassig identified as part of the first phase of a national programme of some 100 flood relief schemes. Cork County Council is progressing a flood relief scheme to protect eight residential...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The table below outlines the Revised Estimates Volume (REV) and supplementary estimates (where applicable) that were approved by the Dáil for the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive. Also identified are the capital carryovers for the relevant years. These arise where a capital allocation is unspent in a particular year and is carried forward for spending in the following year. For example, the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Owned Properties The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility on behalf of the State for managing and maintaining a substantial and complex estate of approximately 2,500 properties. This extensive and diverse portfolio of State properties includes office accommodation for all Government Departments, the property estate for An Garda Síochána and numerous properties for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Castletown House is an 18th-century, neo-Palladian country house built within an extensive estate. In 1994, the Office of Public Works acquired this nationally important house together with 13 acres of surrounding It has long been the policy of the OPW to seek to reunite the historic Castletown estate and over the last 25 years, the OPW has reassembled 227 acres of the historic demesne. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works, as the lead agency for flood risk management, is coordinating the delivery of measures towards meeting the Government’s National Flood Risk Policy. In 2018, the OPW completed the largest study of flood risk ever undertaken by the State: the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The CFRAM Programme studied 80% of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Under the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme, funding of €116,660 has been approved to Kerry County Council, to undertake a coastal erosion and flood risk management study and associated survey work for the location concerned. The OPW is aware that a draft report has been completed and is awaiting receipt of the final report from...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Clare Abbey, Number 197, is a National Monument in the care of the Office of Public Works and the protection and security of this and all National Monuments in the care of the OPW are kept under constant review. The OPW has engaged with Clare County Council, Irish Rail and An Garda Síochána in relation to issues raised by the local community and appreciates the concerns raised in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The OPW endeavours to ensure best value for money outcomes on all projects under its management. All contracts are subject to approval, monitoring and audit to ensure that value for money is being achieved throughout the procurement and delivery process. The OPW follows public procurement best practice in respect of the large spend under its remit. This includes: utilisation of the Office...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme was the largest study of flood risk in the country, studying the flood risk for some two thirds of the population. Following and based on the CFRAM study, Galway City Council appointed consultant engineers in November 2020 to design an option to protect the city from a significant flood event in the future. The work...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: To date, six communities across Cork County are protected from significant flood risk by completed flood relief schemes. Through the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme, the largest study of flood risk was completed by the Office of Public Works in 2018. It is not possible to progress all 150 flood relief schemes identified by the 2018 Flood Risk Management Plans...