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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: I know that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: The deadline will be met. We have given a commitment to meet it. We have a plan, with the Garda Commissioner, to move to a new facility, which is on track. The building programme delivered by the OPW is set by the Garda Commissioner and it is reflective of the policing plan he sets out. It changes and it moves. It is malleable depending on what the Garda Commissioner sets out.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: The move will be complete in September 2022.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: It is the end of 2022.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: As I said earlier, the OPW will design and deliver on the basis of what is laid out by the Garda Commissioner in the policing plan. That includes contingencies. We have planned contingencies and we will deliver them if, and when, they are needed. Our priority is to ensure that Military Road is delivered on time and on budget. If we require contingencies to vacate, they will be fulfilled.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: The only date I can give is the vacation date. I do not have a date for when Garda headquarters will take up occupancy in Military Road.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: We may not have to acquire additional sites, but we may-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: No. We may not have to acquire additional sites; we may have to have contingencies for a short time. That may require us to have people in transition for a short period of time, but that has yet to be determined. Not everybody will be able to move on day one but we cannot give that date yet.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: I commissioned this review on foot of the Black Lives Matter protests and the protests that happened in Bristol in particular. I met the chairman of the commission, Maurice Buckley, and I asked him that given the significance of the role the OPW has as custodians for buildings, particularly public buildings, we would carry out an investigation and an initial scoping exercise into all of the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: At the time of the late 1700s and the early 1800s when Georgian Dublin was being built, all of Dublin had families who were Anglo-Irish for the most part and who derived their incomes from the agricultural sector. Some of them might have had connections to connections to slavery so I want to be sure that we can stand over anything that will be in the report. It is an initial report and I...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: I do not know but I want to make sure that what we have is as full as possible.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: Consultants have been appointed for the Ballybofey-Stranorlar project and a start-up meeting has been held with the OPW and Donegal County Council. They have appointed consultants for the bundle and that is a start. Some €157,500 was approved in 2018, which the Deputy has details for, but the total budget for Ballybofey-Stranorlar is €1.92 million and the total number of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: I know the bridge because a good friend of mine, the Deputy's former múinteoir bunscoile, is former Deputy Dinny McGinley. I have crossed over that bridge many a time and I know the bridge and the river. The Deputy is right about the county councils. I have appealed to them, as my predecessor did, in relation to minor works applications for local authorities. I have met the county...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: If Deputy Doherty looks for a machine to go into that, I will wind up in the High Court.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: I have a bridge in west Limerick in a small village called Athea that is the same. If I put a machine into it in the morning, I will have the OPW before the High Court and that is the big problem.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: There are two points. The Deputy is right on one point. I need a bigger pipe. I need more projects going through at initiation stage and being animated at the start. I refer to places like Donegal, Gaoth Dobhair, Crossmolina, Enniscorthy, Adare and Limerick. More projects must be animated at a much earlier stage so that if something gets blocked, there is something there to pick up the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021) Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is correct when he says that nature-based solutions will have to play a role. No matter how hard we try, we cannot keep back the sea or every river everywhere. Rivers will break their banks and flood and we will not be able to keep back everything everywhere. When I met the Deputy, we spoke about OPW mapping to local authorities as part of the development of local area plans and...