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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: That is not true.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will explain the fact that the OPW - again, this is to the benefit of the people who live in the town - has made multiple allocations to the council specifically relating to flood risk in the town, which is captured under the Vote we are discussing.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is within the hands of the local authority to correspond with us on that basis to request additional resources.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: We had this-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Let me put it this way. Donegal County Council is answerable to the elected members of Donegal County Council. I think the Deputy’s party controls that council.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Let me finish. If the Deputy can give it, he should take it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Let us be accurate.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, I am not, but the Deputy is trying to create the impression that-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Let me finish. The Deputy asked me a while ago to let him finish; now he should hear me out. He is trying to create an impression that somebody or something is preventing Donegal town's flood relief scheme from going ahead. Let me be very clear. The record will show umpteen times that we want it built, as does the council. If the Deputy wants to play politics with it, that is his...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: He still has not mentioned it. The Deputy has not mentioned anything of what the OPW - its officialdom, engineers or outdoor crews - has done. The Deputy has not mentioned anything about the local authority staff members who have to go out to face these floods. He wants to come in here to try to play politics and stated that, in some sort of warped and twisted way, someone is preventing the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do know fine well what the Deputy said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was the local authorities, in conjunction with the OPW in the first place, that prioritise these and identify the risks.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am glad the Deputy clarified that point.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I absolutely am not.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is the only person twisting words in here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I cannot make this any simpler; we are fully supportive of the scheme. The Deputy is taking the attitude that I, as Minister of State, needs to come in and tell people to move on. If I did that in another part of the country, the Deputy would be the very one to ask about the public spending code and all of the gateways relating to it, the procurement process and the form of works contract....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the people in Donegal are watching this now-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: If that had been asked for at the start of all this, rather than having this discussion-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ------ and saying that people were out to get others-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Burnfoot scheme, which is to protect 49 properties, will be going for planning this year. The Castlefin scheme is to protect 35 properties and will be going for planning permission this year. The Raphoe scheme will be going for planning permission in March or April. That is a big scheme covering 387 properties. The Glenties scheme is smaller. Public consultation on it will end in...