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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: How many units were built in Thurles?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: As of now, however, less than half of what was promised in June 2022 has been delivered.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: Only 300 are fully completed.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: Another issue I want to raise concerns a project in which I am not sure whether the OPW is involved. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has procured 37 buildings for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers and people from Ukraine. My understanding from the reply to a parliamentary question I put to him is that only one of those buildings has been repurposed. At least 20 of them were...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: I was not sure whether the OPW is involved. It often manages buildings for other Departments.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: In response to a parliamentary question I put into the Minister of State last November, he admitted that the OPW had 87 empty buildings across the country. Has there been an improvement since then in that figure?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: I wish to make a final point on that. At a time when crime and antisocial behaviour are significant issues in so many communities, it is striking that so many Garda stations are being sold off by the State as a result of them being closed in the past ten years.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: If the Minister of State does not understand that the primary concern of the people of Midleton at the moment is when this relief scheme will be built, there is a major difficulty and a major disconnect between him and the people. This project is their primary concern.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Peadar Tóibín: There are a couple of issues I want to deal with. The first is the flooding in Midleton. It goes to the heart of a major problem that exists in this Government in terms of the delivery of projects. The Minister of State alluded to it when he stated that Lough Funshinagh engineering projects could have been delivered 20 years ago and that they have to jump through so many hoops now. It...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Dillon proved my point in thanking the Government for giving refurbishment grants for a post office and a Garda station it closed. The point is the Government is closing key public services in these types of towns. Those buildings are becoming derelict and now the Government is coming back with a few bob to do up the windows and the roof a little bit. This is why so many of these...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I worked on its reopening.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I worked on that too.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for all three of those projects.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: How much money has been drawn down and spent by the Minister's Department in making sure that vacancy is transformed into use?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I welcome these funds and schemes but they are tackling the symptoms of the problems. The problems themselves are not being tackled. Why are so many towns and villages in this country trending towards vacancy? Why is that the case? At the heart of that is an economic model that is basically making commuter and dormitory towns of these places, where they have become hollow husks and empty...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what steps her Department is taking to tackle dereliction and vacancy in rural towns and villages. [3978/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: The issues of dereliction is a blight upon many towns across the country and the moment. There are many cases where buildings are dangerous and are falling apart. There are other cases where those buildings are centres of antisocial behaviour, drug-taking and potentially fires as well. There are also cases where businesses are significantly devalued as a result of being next to vacant...
- International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: At least 26,637 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza so far. Some 65,387 people have been wounded since the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023. The number of people dead is the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the city of Kilkenny being completely eliminated. Those are absolutely horrendous figures. Schools and hospitals have been vaporised. The rules of war have...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Most people want to help and to do the right thing for people who are fleeing war and violence. They also want a system that is fair and sustainable. Most people want a compassionate approach from the Government but also want common sense. The Minister's system has so far been a common sense-free zone. That is the truth. We have a Government whose policy has to date significantly...