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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, given the recent events in Cork, he will outline the steps he is taking to deliver flood relief schemes in order to protect residents, businesses, and local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47040/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that. There was a bit of a mix-up in the questions. We have talked about flooding all morning. I am looking for an update on the Crossmolina flood relief scheme and when it will commence. I am worried because what I have received from the Department states the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform will give statutory consent to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I must respond. The Minister of State knows that is an updating of the 1945 Act. There is too much messing going on here. Crossmolina has waited since 2015 when it was flooded out. The people of that town are now being told in 2023 that it will be 2027 before there is flood relief.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is completely disingenuous of the Minister of State to deflect from that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State knows that is not the case.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people have been waiting since 2012 and will be waiting until 2027.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people have been waiting since 2012 and will be waiting until 2027.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is completely disingenuous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The other Deputy took the time when he was not supposed to.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is too serious a matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For God's sake.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Biodiversity is compatible with what needs to be done here. Stop playing games with people. Stop it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wanted to come in on that because there seems some kind of a miscommunication. As was rightly said by Deputy Stanton, there was an underspend in the Department of Transport, and yet projects like the N17 have been put on hold. They are absolutely vital to the economic development of the areas they serve. What is going on there? There are mixed messages coming, that in one sense they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and I understand that. We had issues earlier this year, however, with capital projects in education where the Government was forced to row back on the initial plans and to scrap a number of projects because the expenditure ceiling had been reached in inflation. This caused very significant distress to schools and to their communities who in many instances had been...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively; how this compares with estimates in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47039/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively and how this compares with estimates in the national development plan, NDP? The latter is a multi-annual plan and, as such, the Minister will agree that inflation, economic growth and GDP should be taken into account. It is important that we have effective and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister has said, the NDP was reviewed and the targets for capital investment as a percentage of GNI* were set in 2021. The revised NDP also set out departmental capital ceilings for 2025. In budget 2024, we saw the Government stay within those NDP ceilings. The 2021 targets set for 2023 and 2024 were 4.9% and 5.1% respectively, as the Minister has said. The Department now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, in respect of public procurement bid-rigging and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47038/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could the Minister outline the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the CCPC regarding public procurement bid-rigging? The CCPC is the State body responsible for the enforcement of competition law. One of the areas most at risk from anti-competitive behaviour is public procurement, particularly with regard to large construction contracts that involve...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In July 2022, six Spanish construction firms were fined €200 million by the Spanish regulator for colluding on bids for public construction contracts. The Spanish state has banned these companies from participating in the public procurement process. Five of those Spanish companies have won public construction contracts in Ireland. What they did was essentially was agree who would...