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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: I can check that out for the Deputy in the files and come back to him.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: I do not have the detail of that particular site with me but I will visit it when I go to Donegal. Any site like that is well worth looking at and we will work with the local councillors, the committee and Fáilte Ireland to see what the best plan is and what can be done with it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: I look forward to that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: After Galway.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: Initially, I can tell the Deputy, that there was a carryover of €7 million from the previous year which was spent in 2016-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: -----along with the full allocation. Therefore, effectively, in 2016, we spent in excess of €52 million on flood relief alone, which was a record spend for flood relief specifically in any one year. We spent the €45 million plus the €7.52 million.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: To date, the amount of funding which was approved to local authorities since the scheme was introduced is €37.621 million and the local authorities have drawn down €30.421 million. The value of works directly undertaken by the OPW is €1.5 million. The number of approved projects is 597 and the number of them that have been completed is 435. The estimated number of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: When the Deputy speaks about broadening it, I presume he means doing more work.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: I wrote to every chief executive of the local authorities inviting them to make more applications so that we can give them more money. However, there are a number of things to consider, including the capacity of the local authorities themselves to carry out these works or to even get the paperwork done and into us. More money can definitely be spent. There is no cap on what can be spent....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy knows, the local authorities get the roads budget from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Where roads have to be raised, there is a funding mechanism in place that has been applied by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The local authorities apply for funding for it. We do not have funding in that regard. Our primary objective is flood relief and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: There is a danger that we would spend our money for flood relief on roads. I know, for instance, that the money was provided by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport from its budgets for anywhere along Loch Fuinseann where the roads were raised. There is money available to the local authorities for that. People contact me, including the Deputy, about getting works done here and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: The first thing I would say is that last year we spent €15.338 million on channel clearing, some €5 million of which was spent on the tributaries coming into the River Shannon. We have spent money on the River Boyne, the River Glyde in Monaghan, the River Inny, the River Brosna, the Broadmeadow River, the River Corrib, the River Moy, in Donegal - the Deputy is gone but we did...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: Bord na Móna is a stakeholder in the Shannon. It is part of the Shannon Group. It is part of the agreement to put the maintenance programme in place which, as I said earlier, is unprecedented. A working group has been put together to identify works we can do fairly easily and works which would take longer as a result of having to get consent and because of the environment and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: When one is doing a project that impacts on an SAC, one always has to work with the rules, directions, habitats and directives that are there. We have to work within all of that and we have to work within the law. In the Office of Public Works all of the agencies that are involved, such as the National Parks and Wildlife Service, are co-operating very well with us. The intent there is to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: We have prepared a document on repairing owners which has been completed but we want to make sure we have legal advice before we issue it. It will advise farmers on what they can and cannot do in terms of their own banks of land beside the rivers. The biggest difficulty of the farmers I speak to is not the cost but the fact they do not know how to go about getting the permissions to do it....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: The size of the budget for this year is €2 million, which was announced last November when we announced we were bringing in the scheme. One of the difficulties we have with the home relocation scheme is trying to identify exactly the quantity we are dealing with. At this stage, having talked to the local authorities and gotten back as much information as we can on the potential...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: The Chairman is a national figure as well.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: May I ask a question? When was this scheme completed or semi-completed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: What happens in that case is the local authority is the contracting authority but if it requires additional funding to do something, it would make an application to the Office of Public Works. There may still be funding. That is why I asked how long ago. The final account may not be finalised and funding could still be used through that account.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Seán Canney: If there is an issue, when the Chairman stated that works were not allowed to be done by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, I presume that permission is there now.