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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: Yes, the Deputy 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: He is trying to trivialise and distil it down into a situation where someone is holding something back. That is not fair to the people the Deputy is trying to represent.

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 can try as much as-----

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 around this place now as long as Deputy Doherty-----

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: -----and I will not have words put in my mouth.

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, and the Deputy is now trying to put words in my mouth. I am not going to have words put in my mouth by the Deputy or anybody.

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: And it has been answered.

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: Well, it would be good if we got back to the Estimates.

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: 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 decision will be taken jointly between Donegal County Council and the OPW.

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 already, and not to repeat myself, but I think I have answered this question now maybe five times. Once my officials and I have had an opportunity to meet with representatives of Donegal County Council, I will then be able to give a detailed response to Deputy Doherty, and all the members of the Oireachtas who have raised this issue, regarding this scheme in Donegal and other...

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 project costs for the scheme at Ballybofey are just short of €2 million. The estimated spending to date has been just less than €207,000. Consultants were appointed by Donegal County Council in April 2021. The scheme is at stage 1, and it is due to move into the planning phase early next year and into the construction phase in early 2025.

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 OPW is the contracting authority in Lifford. The scheme is programmed to be submitted for planning in the third quarter of 2023 and for construction to begin in 2025. The estimated spending in Lifford to date has been €344,000. At Burnfoot, consultants were appointed in June 2020, and that scheme is programmed to be submitted for planning in the first quarter of 2023, with...

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: All these schemes are pretty much due to come to fruition, with construction getting under way in early 2024. Most of them will wind up in construction at the same time.

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: Hopefully we will have support for a legislative remedy from all sides of the House.

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 we are relying on more than prayers.

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 important to point out that there is nobody at fault in these matters. My officials and the officials of Donegal County Council, every county council and the OPW - those responsible for the north west are sitting in the Gallery - are at pains to point out that they are often in people's houses when they are flooded. They have to brush out the faeces, the urine and the excrement at 3...

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: Did Donegal County Council submit an application for minor works?

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 do not know if an application for minor works was submitted. I can check to see if an application was made. Unless an application for minor works was made, obviously we would not have been able to approve it. If an application was made, I can check it out and revert to Deputy Doherty. Is it the bridge in Bunbeg?