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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: Yes. It is a magnificent site. It is absolutely fabulous. There are permanent guides there. However, its proximity to Kilkenny suggests that the numbers visiting should be far bigger. There is an opportunity, particularly in a county like Kilkenny, for villages to draw off the centre where there are OPW sites. We will work with any such villages. I do not have the number in front of me...

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 will certainly help any organisation that wants to reach out to us. We have already done so. I chaired community meetings in Quin, County Clare, in Kinsale, County Cork, and on the Aran Islands with the comharchumann out there with regard to how the local community can maximise the potential of whatever the OPW owns in their communities, whether that is Dún Aonghasa, Charles Fort or...

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: Yes, the P and P campaign.

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: Is the Chair asking about pooper scoopers?

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 not sure but I will find out for the Chairman. With regard to the signage, the OPW has a new livery and we are going to do a signage replacement programme across the estate. Some of the signage dates back to the time of Dúchas, so it is outdated and needs to be updated. With my other hat on, I will note that all signs must be bilingual. In my opinion, the less you put on a sign,...

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 will get back to the Chair on 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: We want them to go 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: In terms of the property itself, the guides and the outdoor staff are different parts of the one agency. The outdoor staff are reaching out to other sites as well, and the maintenance crews look after other sites depending on the district they are working out of. They are pulled and dragged all over the place, so what I can do is feed back to the organisation. We deploy people on a...

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 was there in a private capacity and I was there in a political capacity. I do not think the Chair was invited to the Fine Gael think-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 was unable to on the day but I do not think-----

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 not think the Fine Gael think-in was an appropriate place for your, Chair, but you are always welcome and I have always said 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: I must relay that back to Deputy Phelan.

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 Chair will appreciate that this is the first I have heard of this but we certainly will. If he could give me the details, I will ask our officials at senior level in the OPW to look at it and engage with the relevant authorities wherever this manuscript is to see whether it would be more suitable to us or to the National Library of Ireland or whomever. We will certainly explore 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: There is an investigative statement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Tá mé buíoch de na Teachtaí. Mar a dúirt mé cheana féin, beidh deis againn nuair atá mé ós comhair an choiste an rud sin a phlé. An rud is tábhachtaí ná go mbeadh na toghcháin ar siúl in 2024. Cuireann an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh ceist an-thábhachtach ós ár gcomhair anocht; is é sin...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Faoi réir chinneadh an Rialtais roimh an Nollaig, aontaíodh gur próiseas toghcháin agus roghnúcháin a bheidh ann in áit an phróisis ainmniúcháin agus roghnúcháin atá i bhfeidhm faoi láthair mar a bhaineann sé leis an gcaoi a gceaptar bord Údarás na Gaeltachta. Faoin mBille um Údarás na Gaeltachta...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Cosúil leis na toghcháin áitiúla, toghcháin na Dála agus toghcháin na hEorpa, beidh cuóta inscne ar na páirtithe a ghlacfaidh páirt sa toghchán. Maidir leis an gcéad cheist a chur an Teachta, beidh an toghchán ar siúl in 2024. Maidir leis an méid a dúirt mé níos luaithe, tá duine den bheirt bhan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Seirbhísí Oileán (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Bhí mé ann anuraidh.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Seirbhísí Oileán (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Beidh mé ar ais.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gníomhú ar son na hAeráide (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Maidir leis an bplean dar teideal An Ghaeltacht Ghlas, beidh seans ag an údarás labhairt le gach Roinn a bhfuil suim aici san ábhar sin ach freisin leis an bpobal agus iad ag plé an phlean. Returning to Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan's question, housing policy on the islands is not just an issue specific to the Gaeltacht islands, but to the islands in general. Officials...