Results 21,501-21,520 of 35,889 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: I wish the Chairman well in his role. I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well. I will be brief as I have to attend a meeting of the Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny 10 o'clock. I concur with everything the Chairman said on this exercise. This is one of the areas we are looking at and will be bringing forward recommendations so this is more than just a box ticking...
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State not believe that, given his responsibility under CFRAM and the fact the insurance industry is using maps being produced not to insure households and is not dealing with demountables, he has a responsibility to engage with the insurance industry? Is it his intention not to meet with members of the insurance industry?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: I will move on from this. It will be surprising and disappointing to households and businesses that have been flooded or are at risk of flooding and whose insurance companies refuse to insure them when their premiums are coming up for renewal, that Deputy Canney, as Minister of State, has not decided to lift the telephone to members of the insurance industry to ask them to get a grip on the...
- 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) Pearse Doherty: When does the Minister of State expect to publish the interdepartmental flood policy co-ordinating group's report?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: It will probably be September.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Does the OPW have a view on whether a pooled resources fund is required to deal with the effects of flood damages as in the case of some other countries, for example, Britain?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State have a view 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) Pearse Doherty: On the specific question of a pooled fund, which would be there to deal with the effects of flood damage, is the Minister of State saying that it is on the table for consideration?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: The Estimates and programme A provide for six schemes. Am I to understand that no major flood risk schemes commenced in 2015? Is that what I read from these? Of the seven major flood relief schemes that were to commence last year, none commenced at all? Is that correct? Will the Minister of State explain why there was such a failure?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Why were none of the targets of major flood schemes delivered in 2015? How could that have happened?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: So this is internal nonsense that we created to delay projects.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: At this point, approaching the middle of the year, only one of the six major flood relief schemes that are to commence in 2016 has commenced. I presume those six are some of the seven that were supposed to start last year.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: This year, we are not even targeting to start the seven that we targeted last year.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Let me clarify this for the committee. Seven major flood relief schemes were to start in 2015 but none of them started. Are we agreed on 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) Pearse Doherty: We have decided to reduce that seven down to six for 2016, so we will not try to achieve last year's targets this year. Why are we doing that? Why did we drop one of the major schemes that was supposed to already have started last year? How come only one of the six that are targeted for this year has started so far? Is the Minister of State confident that all six will commence by the end...
- 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) Pearse Doherty: That is five.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Which of the schemes that were supposed to have started in 2015 has the Minister of State now dropped and which will now not start until at least 2017?
- 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) Pearse Doherty: A delay of two years.
- 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) Pearse Doherty: Are we planning to fail? We seem to be going back instead of forward.