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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: The local authority can apply for funding under the OPW’s minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme to address flooding experienced in Tallow. The purpose of this scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies costing up to €750,000 to address localised fluvial flooding and coastal protection problems...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: As I said, the OPW will provide assistance to the local authority but the latter needs to drive the scheme and push it on. The money and the minor works scheme are in place. All the local authority has to do is put forward its proposals through the scheme. My engineers and staff are meeting local authorities in the Deputy's area and we will see what comes out of that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I did not get to finish my response earlier. I assure the Deputy that we are considering natural methods of protection. We talk about fluvial flooding but coastal erosion is becoming a huge problem. I have seen it in the past, including when I served here with responsibility for the OPW, and I expect it in the future. It will be a major problem. All people, not only those in the OPW...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I have to apologise to the Deputy. I am new in the game and have not got the response to the question with me. However, I will send it on to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I congratulate the Deputy. In the past, I had a great working relationship with his predecessor, so I look forward to working with him in the future. 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, CFRAM, programme, the largest study of flood risk was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I set out the details regarding Rathcormac. There is availability through the minor works scheme for the local authority to come to my Department to seek funding under that scheme, while we wait for the bigger scheme. We are looking at a pilot scheme for tranche 2, which Rathcormac comes under, but the pilot scheme is not yet finished. I understand it is a year from completion. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: In the first instance, it is the responsibility of each local authority to investigate and address local coastal protection. The minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection schemes were introduced by the OPW on an administrative, non-statutory basis in 2009. The purpose of the schemes is to provide funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood or coastal erosion mitigation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: Which question is this?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I do not have the reply. I understood that it had been changed. I do not have it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (13 Feb 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will. I will come back to the Deputy. I am sorry about that.

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

Kevin Moran: The OPW ensures the quality of the concrete blockwork used in all its building projects complies with the European standard for masonry blockwork. This requires that the manufacturer shall supply a certificate with each delivery of concrete blocks stating the date of manufacture and that the blocks comply with all the requirements of the standard. It includes a declaration of performance...

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

Kevin Moran: The Deputy asked me about OPW buildings, and I identified not to my knowledge. If the Deputy has knowledge of buildings that are showing signs, he should let me know and we will follow them up. At present, according to what I have in front of me, we do not. However, I assure him that if he comes to me with that, I will take it up.

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. ...