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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is because the towns are bigger. Enniscorthy is a much bigger town than some of the towns that are coming on behind it. It means that the contract we will be giving out for Enniscorthy is a lot bigger than that for some of the towns coming on behind it, but the resources available to us are the same. The number of people we have available to us for environmental impact assessments is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, it is not a capacity issue.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does the Deputy know of the concept of near and far away?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Enniscorthy is a huge town. It will require a large amount of capital. I will give another analogy. Rathkeale is a small town that does not require the same amount capital to fix it. However, the same number of people are required to do the environmental impact assessment for a small town as for a big town. We have set aside a significant amount of capital for a big town. That means...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: He is also anticipating that we will have good news on some of these schemes and that we will actually be able to start them. We do not know what might come out of the courts, but we have to have a sufficient amount to be able to start. We believe we have a sufficient amount to be able to start these schemes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, he is not wrong.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that not exactly what I just said?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: On his profile-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: On the profile, we have a sufficient amount to carry us over, notwithstanding the fact that we are bogged down in court with an awful lot of the very big ones.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have advocated the solution and I hope the Deputy will support it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: We need a legislative remedy.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I hope when it comes before the House, because it will affect the Deputy's constituency, that he will support it. We need serious legislative reform in the area of JR. He should not come into the Dáil crying to me when Donegal town is raised as an issue in the House because it is taking ten years to get its scheme advanced and it is bogged down in the courts.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is a statistically high probability of all of them ending up in that process.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Exactly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: They actually are.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy asked me that question a week ago, and I am going to give the same answer now as I did then. I do not have a date for the commencement. It has to go through a planning process. The Deputy just said we cannot usurp the planning process. Therefore, I do not have a date.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. I did not say that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am due to meet representatives of Donegal County Council within the next fortnight-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----along with officials of the OPW. I hope to have a clearer picture then of where the flood relief scheme in Donegal town stands. From our perspective, and I wish to make this point very clear, because I know the Chairman of the committee is concerned with issues in Kilkenny as well, there is not an issue with schemes being held back or anything like that. We have been clear we will...