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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: 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?

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: My understanding is that the former Garda station in Bunbeg went for public auction and was sold. The new one is up by the údarás facility.

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 informed that it is to be sold in July. There have been a number of auctions. Deputy Farrell queried us about disposals earlier. She had previously raised the issue of reducing the amount of properties on our books. We have been at pains over the past 12 months to try to reduce those. There is a date assigned for the former Garda station in Bunbeg, and that is in July of this year.

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 can look at everything. One of the things we have been doing in the OPW is that we have exhausted local authorities, community groups, Departments and bodies such as the HSE. I served on the Committee of Public Accounts, as did Deputy Doherty. One of the things we cannot do is dispose of State assets for anything above the market value. If we were to do that, no doubt somebody else...

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 have to get value for the State in the first instance. We will consult the Department of Education. I presume the Bishop of Raphoe is the patron in this case. The OPW will ask if the patron has an interest. However, we cannot operate on a mañanabasis. I know the site. The former Minister of State, Dinny McGinley, is a good friend of mine so I know it. We cannot leave derelict...

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 has damned me for many things.

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.

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 can understand that because the community groups are taking on a fair burden.

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 will engage with the Department of Education and the patron in the full knowledge that the patron would be taking on the liability of the building. We will exhaust that option in advance of any potential auction. I commit to doing 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: To answer the second question first, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the first instance is the line Minister with responsibility for the protection of those buildings. It is an anomaly that probably should be corrected at some stage. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage actually owns many of the properties that we have responsibility for...

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 presume the Vice Chairman is talking about Clare Island.

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 have a detailed note on the ones the Vice Chairman is talking about. I can send a written answer to him in the next couple of days. I presume some of the castles he is talking about will be in our custody and some will not be. I can get a detailed response for him in writing.

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 was very disappointed that the last time I was supposed to go there, the Vice Chairman stood me up.

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 are a number of issues in the Vice Chairman's part of the world relating to flood-risk management, estate management and historic properties. I look forward to going to County Kildare and meeting representatives of Kildare County Council with him.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Environmental Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: A draft Roadmap document which was in preparation over the past number of months has now been completed by the OPW. The document outlines key areas of guidance for lower-carbon building materials in construction supported by examples of best practice in this area. The use of lower carbon building materials in construction will play an important role in reducing our emission by 51% by 2030. ...