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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: As the Deputy is aware, the swimming pool in the Garda Training College is primarily for use by the trainees at the College, but they can be made available to local schools and community/voluntary groups, where appropriate. Where a group is interested in using the facilities, they must apply to the Garda College, in the first instance as the application process is managed by the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Local Authorities are responsible for coastal erosion in their own areas. To assist Local Authorities in managing the coastline for coastal erosion, the Office of Public Works (OPW) has undertaken a national assessment of coastal erosion (including erosion rates) under the Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study and the results of this study have been published on the OPW website...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Westgate House, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, County Louth is in the ownership of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. Officials from the Office of Public Works have reached agreement to transfer the property to Louth County Council in line with the State’s property disposal policy. Contracts for the transfer are currently with solicitors for Louth County Council and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The National Development Plan (NDP) 2021 - 2030 the new Garda Station in Clonmel and the new Cork County Garda Divisional Headquarters in Macroom, Co. Cork are to be built as part of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) along with the Family Law Court in Hammond Lane, Dublin 7. The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility for the provision and maintenance of Garda accommodation. Works...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW delivers a programme of capital investment to address existing flood risk to properties and infrastructure through major flood relief projects, which are delivered largely in partnership with Local Authorities. Since 1995, the OPW, together with the relevant Local Authorities, has constructed 53 major flood defence schemes throughout the country, protecting approximately 12,200...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works has progressed to detailed design phase for plans to refurbish the existing visitor centre at Dún Aonghasa. The design scheme includes provision of new and enhanced visitor interpretation for the Monument and the upgrading of ancillary facilities and landscaping work connected to the visitor centre. The wider project also provides for investment in new signage...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is right with regard to households and the impact flooding has on businesses and amenities. The day I visited with the Deputy, I saw first-hand the impact it could have on communities. These communities are leading through a bottom-up approach. They are being supported in no small way by Údarás na Gaeltachta, chomh maith le Roinn na Gaeltachta a bhí in aonach linn...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Without getting in to the specifics of this issue, Deputies will have heard me say often that the single biggest threat to this country is from the sea. Coastal communities are living in the terrifying situation that we have witnessed in the past number of years where the Atlantic and the south seas unleash unbelievable, horrific amounts of energy on to communities. The damage it causes and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Officials from the OPW, with Cork County Council which is the lead agency for the protection of the bank, were present on the day. I know discussions are continuing. It would be disingenuous for me to say we will be able to protect every acre of land into the future. That is not possible. It is no accident that most people in this country live in coastal communities. It is a settlement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ta Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí, i gcomhpháirtíocht le Comhairle Contae Chorcaí, ag dul i ngleic go réamhghníomhaíoch leis an rogha is fearr a chur chun cinn le haghaidh scéim faoisimh thuilte inmharthana do Bhaile Bhuirne agus Baile Mhic Íre, a chosnóidh 90 réadmhaoin ó riosca suntasach ó thuilte. Cork County Council, which will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Níl an OPW ag seasamh siar in aon chor. It would not be unusual for us to appoint local authorities as the lead agents in some schemes and for us to be the lead agents in other areas. In County Limerick, which is my home area, Limerick City and County Council is the lead authority for a number of the schemes we are developing. The OPW leads in some cases. It is not the case that we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which is of huge importance to our Department and the Government as a whole. The Government has established an interdepartmental group on managing coastal change to scope out an approach to the development of a national co-ordinated and integrated strategy to manage the projected impact of coastal change on our coastal communities, economies,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: With a national monument of this nature, ducting and underground cabling can be quite a difficult issue, especially if it involves high-resolution cameras. There is no power source at that location. Taking all that into consideration, the only commitment I will give is that we will re-engage with Clare County Council and An Garda Síochána on this. If we put up cameras, there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 96 and 117 together. The matter concerning the proposed installation of CCTV at Clare Abbey has been previously raised in discussions with the local authority and local stakeholders and in my presence as well during a visit to the abbey. The deployment of security measures across the national heritage estate is kept under constant review by OPW. Security...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputies. Returning to Deputy Carey's original comment with respect to County Clare, the OPW has put a fairly big footprint in the county in the past number of years with the work we have done in Cloonlara, Ennis, Springfield, Lahinch and Kilkee on the flood risk side, notwithstanding all of the other issues we have. I acknowledge both Deputies for the support they have given...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: If that is unparliamentary language, a Cathaoirligh Gníomhaigh, I will-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Tá caomhnú agus cosaint an Bhlascaoid Mhóir fós ríthábhachtach d’Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí. Tá feabhsaithe beartaithe ag an oifig don séasúr atá le teacht i mbliana agus cinnteoidh sé sin go bhfuil rochtain shábháilte ag cuairteoirí. Cuirfear tús arís le seirbhísí báid do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Tuigimid in Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an oileán, ní hamháin d’oidhreacht agus do stair áitiúil iarthar Chiarraí ach de bharr an tsaibhris bithéagsúlachta atá ar an oileán freisin. Ar an ábhar sin, tá sé an-tábhachtach domsa, ní hamháin mar Aire Stáit le...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am reminded that during my last visit to the island with Deputy Griffin, the Dáil on the island was pointed out to me. The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will be familiar with this too. I then asked about the name of a strand that was within sight and earshot where more than one or two seals were roaring and bawling. The person who was with us said, "Well, we call that the Seanad"....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Budgets (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: As a consequence of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the infrastructure developed by my Office, acting on an agency basis, for the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine and the Department of Health/HSE, was required to conduct checks and controls.  Compliance with the Union Customs Code (UCC) remains a key driver for the need for...