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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Skibbereen experiences coastal and fluvial flooding, so it is like a lot of areas, particularly in Cork and Dublin, where those two impacts are at play.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: The scheme failed, though.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: It met the terms of reference. Who sets the terms of reference for projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Skibbereen flooded.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am sure the businesses in Skibbereen are not really worried as to why.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: We are told that millions are being spent in Skibbereen, originally €18 million and now almost double that, on protecting the town. As I said, we could talk about areas in Cork or elsewhere. There are loads of towns where this is happening. The people of Skibbereen saw major works and a lot of concrete poured, yet the town flooded in 2020. My question to Mr. Casey is, regardless of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I want to finish. We can talk about how the OPW works tangentially with local authorities, the ESB, Waterways Ireland or whoever it might be. That may be part of the answer, but what is being said is the flood scheme did not fail although Skibbereen was flooded.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: At the moment, though, the OPW does not have a plan in that particular case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I accept that the OPW is talking to the council, but my question is whether there is a document somewhere with a plan for that area that deals with what happened in 2020.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Yes, I want to come back to Mr. Buckley because I have only 40 seconds left and I have so many more questions. To be clear, where the OPW has an instance like this, of course responsibility is shared and it is a complex issue, but you could say that about every single area in the country. I remember the floods around the Shannon. There was a lake around my brother's house. The ESB was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Yes. A lot of concrete has been poured in Bandon as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: No, they were not. To be clear, I never suggested they were. I was talking about the 2009 event. Chair, I want to come in for a second round-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I know. I want to be clear, though. My point was that the OPW nationally is tasked with flood prevention regardless of the terms of reference it sets on its own projects.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I have two questions to get through in that time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: The Deputy can go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: We established during a previous interaction that the OPW is responsible for flood prevention in the State. Is the organisation telling State bodies to stop building and buying in flood-endangered areas? Is it actively advising the HSE and local authorities to stop doing that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: That is not what I asked. Mr. Buckley said earlier that the OPW's interactions with local authorities are ongoing and regular. Is the OPW actively telling local authorities not to do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Where advice is ignored, what is the OPW doing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: At a recent committee meeting, we discussed the HSE buying an existing home for long-term residential care that flooded in the past 18 months. I am aware of a development of 2,500 units just outside Midleton. Midleton has flooded significantly on ten occasions since 1993 and, yet, 2,500 units are being built at Water Rock. There is irony to the name. I am trying to get to the bottom of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Are the bodies involved working on the basis of information and numbers from 2009?