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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: 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...
- 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 can come back to the Deputy in writing. In general, however, we work on the basis that we try to get the maximum number of schemes that are most likely to go through the planning process done in the shortest period. We routinely check to ensure that if anything can be condensed by way of timeframe, we do it. I can come back to the Deputy specifically with a schedule in respect of each of...
- 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 can get the Deputy the detail on those, broken down in tabular form. Similar to the schemes in Donegal, most of those will be at the following stages: preliminary; data collection; public consultation; live planning; or if they are being done under the Arterial Drainage Act or by An Bord Pleanála, before the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I can think of two in Cork 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: Some of the 58 will actually come out this year. Six schemes are at construction stage, including those in Athlone and Templemore, which will be completed this year. Three schemes are at detailed design stage. These include King’s Island in Limerick, Glashaboy in Glanmire, County Cork. Five others are at stage 2. These include the scheme in Enniscorthy, which, unfortunately, has...
- 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 detail in that regard could be provided, it would be helpful. In the context of the OPW's estate management portfolio, the Spending Review 2022 reached conclusions similar to previous reviews and states: "... if the State requires office accommodation for long-term use, it may get better value for money [for] building or purchasing office accommodation instead of leasing." 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: This depends on circumstances. I refer, for example, to the locations where the OPW is asked to find office accommodation or circumstances where, for argument’s sake, a tribunal is established, a change of Department occurs or an agency needs to expand. Sometimes, we just do not have a choice but to take out a lease. It is not our preferred option. Our preferred option is to...