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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: 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...

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: As I said to the Deputy last week and again a while ago, the project in Donegal is a tranche 2 scheme and the council and the OPW are working closely to see how it can be advanced. Funding of almost €400,000 was allocated in 2019 by the OPW to Donegal County Council to carry out minor works there. It is part of an overall €2.5 million approved for Donegal County Council since...

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 will, as I do everywhere.

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.

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 know the Deputy might try to come in and try to presume-----

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 answered the question, Vice Chairman.

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 answered the question in the Dáil and now here. I do not know what kind of a platform Deputy Doherty is trying to create, but I have answered the question. I have answered it in the Dáil and three times here already. I will be meeting with representatives of Donegal County Council in the next fortnight specifically concerning the scheme in Donegal town.

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 will revert to Deputy Doherty at that stage.

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: By the way, the Deputy is not unique in addressing this problem. Deputy McHugh has also raised this issue with me, as have individual councillors.

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: Yes.

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: This is not a case of either-or. This is a decision that will be moved ahead jointly.

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: This is a decision that will be moved forward jointly by Donegal County Council and the OPW. I know the Deputy is trying to trivialise it and to distil it down-----