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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: They relate to the completion of the restoration works in Leinster House.
- 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 always ongoing conservation works in Leinster House that the OPW oversees.
- 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 will get a note for the Chairman with the information broken down.
- 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: That was a publication of the Department.
- 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: Broadly, I have no difficulty with the report. It is timely in light of the national development plan. We in the Office of Public Works are on a journey of renewal and I want to modernise the office. Any critique that is available and helps that modernisation effort is timely and welcome. To return to the Chairman's question about heading B6, it relates to matters such as mechanical and...
- 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: In general?
- 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: Do you mean in terms of upgrades, Chairman?
- 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: What it refers to is the refurbishment and fit-out of office accommodation. It includes cultural institutions, the building programmes for the Garda and Garda cell upgrades. The expenditure on Leinster House is a big one at almost €4 million. It also includes mechanical and electrical work. Deep retrofits were carried out in some cases. There was a boiler replacement programme....
- 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 biggest part of the work in the Four Courts is the dome, which has crumbled as a result of the restoration that was done after the Civil War and has to be done again. If you pass it, Chairman, you can see it is being reconstructed at the moment.
- 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 a Department of Public Expenditure and Reform report and it has been published.
- 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 worth noting it was suggested in the report that other Departments should look to the OPW as an exemplar of delivery.
- 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: You will find from history, Chairman, that most of those projects were dumped on us.
- 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 accept that, but most of them were vanity projects and you will recall from history, Chairman, that they were dumped on us.
- 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: Some of the proponents of those vanities are still around, albeit in a different House.
- 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 a different story.
- 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: That is no problem.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (24 Mar 2021)
Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 515 and 520 together. Section 25 of the Disability Act states that ‘a public body shall ensure that its public buildings, are as far as practicable, accessible to persons with disabilities. It defines public buildings as ‘a building, or that part of a building, to which members of the public generally have access and which is occupied, managed or...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (24 Mar 2021)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of Arterial Drainage Schemes and catchment drainage schemes designated under the Arterial Drainage Acts of 1945 and 1995. The channel referred to by the Deputy does not form part of an Arterial Drainage Scheme. Therefore, the OPW has no responsibilities for the maintenance of this channel, nor the authority to carry out any...