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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Government is investing a sum of €113 million in flood relief measures completed or under way across counties Kilkenny and Carlow. In 2018, the OPW launched the flood risk management plans. Due to constraints in specialised engineering consultancy services and skills, it is not feasible to concurrently deliver all 150 flood relief schemes identified by the plans. Kilkenny...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: It is open to the local authority to apply to the OPW for 90% funding for localised flood mitigation works up to €750,000 through the minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme. This money is available through the minor works scheme for which the local authority can apply. I, like Deputy Cleere, am sometimes frustrated by the delay in delivering the scheme, but from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: As I outlined, the Deputy is lucky in the sense that Kilkenny and Donegal have been picked for tranche 2 for the pilot scheme. How we can deliver on tranche 2 is something I am looking closely at within my Department, because we have so many schemes out there. We must not get away from the fact of how many schemes are progressing and are at planning stage, delivery stage, and construction...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: All studies to date will enhance the development of the scheme. I cannot give an up-to-date answer to the second part of the Deputy's question but I will visit his neck of the woods. I know he has raised this issue over and over again. I will meet the local authority to try to move this issue on. The interim works are good and help to alleviate some of the problem but the overall project...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: There is a long history of flooding in Ballyvourney and Ballymakeera. The Office of Public Works, working in partnership with Cork County Council, is proactively progressing a preferred option for the viable flood relief scheme in Ballyvourney and Ballymakeera that will protect 90 properties from significant risk of flooding. The OPW drafted an options report for a proposed flood relief...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: I am delighted the Deputy mentioned the interim work. Cork County Council commissioned consultants to complete the design of the interim work on flood measures for Ballyvourney and Ballymakeera. The Office of Public Works approved funding of €500,000 to Cork County Council under the OPW minor flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme for the provision of temporary flood...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: I have 100% full confidence in myself as Minister of State and in the OPW. It is a 35-page report with 18 recommendations. Some people criticised the delay regarding the report. That was because I, as Minister of State, wanted to make sure we implemented all the recommendations in the report. We put our hands up. There were mistakes made. We have to improve and we are improving. Based...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: The publication of the internal audit report by the OPW, following the review of projects costing €500,000 and under is welcome. It follows a commitment to learn from the bike shelter project and presents the internal audit findings, control recommendations and management response. The OPW has accepted and is actively implementing all the recommendations within the report. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: Following the OPW chairman's report on the bike shelter and his appearance before the Oireachtas committee, he was frank in acknowledging the overall cost of delivering the covered bike shelter at Leinster House was unacceptable in the wider context of value for money and value for the taxpayer. Following his commitment to learn from the bike shelter project, the chairman wanted independent...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: Through the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme, the largest study of flood risk was completed by the Office of Public Works, in 2018. Since 2018, and working with local authorities, the OPW has trebled, to some 100, the number of flood relief schemes at design and construction. Ballinhassig Flood Relief Scheme is funded by the OPW from the Government's €1.3bn...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Scéimeanna Rannacha (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: Tá an OPW ina phríomhpáirtí leasmhara i gcaomhnú An Bhlascaoid Mhóir ó 1988 i leith. Bunaíodh Ionad an Bhlascaoid le cabhair ó Fondúireacht an Bhlascaoid, grúpa deonach áitiúil in 1992/3. Osclaíodh go hoifigiúil é in Aibreán 1994. Cheannaigh an Stát an chuid is mó de na gabháltais ar an...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: In 2019, the Bellurgan Flood Relief Scheme was completed and is protecting 35 properties from significant flood risk. Through the agreed delivery model, and with OPW funding for six staff, Louth County Council is leading the delivery of five flood relief schemes at Dundalk/Blackrock South, Drogheda, Carlingford/ Greenore, Baltray and Ardee, from the €1.3bn investment in flood...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works (OPW) that there are currently 73 vacant properties owned by the OPW, consisting of 52 buildings and 21 sites. The former Garda station and residence at Newbliss, Co. Monaghan is the only property owned by the OPW that has been placed on a local authority derelict sites register. The OPW is in the process of transferring this property to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: I wish to inform the Deputy that the tender assessment and evaluation stage for the Main Contractor for the Clonmel Garda Station project is now complete, a preferred tenderer has been identified and the standstill period has expired. The assessment and evaluation of the Reserved Specialist tenders for the project is currently underway by the Office of Public Works and the consultants...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 108, 110 and 154 together. To date, six communities across Cork County are protected from significant flood risk by completed flood relief schemes. Since 2018, and working with local authorities, the OPW has trebled, to some 100, the number of flood relief schemes at design and construction. There remain some 50 schemes, referred to as Tranche II,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: The development of the National Children's Science Centre at Earlsfort Terrace is the subject of ongoing arbitration between the National Children’s Science Centre and the Commissioners of Public Works. The Arbitrator issued an interim decision on the 25th June 2022 and found in favour of the applicant, the Irish Children’s Museum Ltd. (The promoter of the National...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Burial Grounds (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: Kilmainham Gaol, which opened in 1796 as the County Gaol for Dublin, ceased operations in 1924. Today, the site stands as a significant symbol of Ireland’s political and historical heritage, representing both militant and constitutional nationalism. The Gaol is closely associated with key moments in Irish history, including the rebellions of 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867, and the Easter...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Government is investing €81m in Kerry as part of the €1.3 billion to the delivery of flood relief schemes over the lifetime of the National Development Plan. As it is not feasible to deliver all flood relief schemes concurrently, due to constraints on the specialised engineering skills, the flood-relief delivery programme was subdivided into two tranches, focusing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works assigns the costs of running any property in its ownership by means of a property code. There is no separate property code for Steward's Lodge and any expenditure for that property is subsumed into the general expenditure for Farmleigh House and Estate. It is not therefore possible to give an annual figure for the expenditure on Steward's Lodge as distinct from...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (29 May 2025)

Kevin Moran: Conna Castle is a significant heritage site under the ownership and management of the Office of Public Works. It is a five-storey 16th-century tower house located in East Cork, which has seen ongoing conservation investment by the OPW over a number of years. I can confirm that all internal works currently planned for this phase have been completed. These included essential safety...