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Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: On Cloonlara and the area around Springfield in particular, Clare County Council applied under Part 10 for planning permission on 20 July. I lend my support to the council's application for that scheme. The OPW is committed to it. I am a neighbour down the road in County Limerick. We in the midwest know the connection between Cloonlara and Limerick. We have sympathy for the people in...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: Do I have time to respond to the Fianna Fáil Deputies?

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: Much of what Deputy Flaherty referred to is covered in the national development plan under a number of different agencies, including Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Irish Water and the councils. With regard to Deputy Crowe's comments, I do not have responsibility for water in the sewerage system. This is under the remit of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: In response to the Deputy's earlier contribution, I meant to acknowledged the support he has given to the temporary wage subsidy scheme and to the pandemic unemployment payment. We are in the situation with this Estimate where four fifths of our spending has already been reached. We need to ensure that this Estimate is passed for the very people the Deputy talks about, namely, nurses and...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will try to answer as quickly as I can. Some of them are no longer my brief, although they were until the transition. The construction innovation fund is a concept that was developed during my time in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform around the area of building information modelling technology so that we could use best practice in the private sector to ensure that when...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I think I answered it. People take responsibility based on the demands that society as a whole puts on us as a Government. If people have additional responsibilities and are expected to be able to relay those to the House, I think their salaries should reflect the responsibilities of everyone else sitting at the Cabinet table.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I already told Deputy Shortall, the rationale for increasing the number sitting at Cabinet was laid out by the three party leaders when the Government was formed. There are increasing demands on all of us. There was a suggestion of Departments being abolished or being merged in advance of the programme for Government, which some interest groups, lobbies and Deputies opposed. There were...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am trying to be-----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am trying to be respectful to the Deputy's party and answer the questions asked by the previous Sinn Féin speaker, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, as well as those asked by Deputy Doherty. She deserves answers to the very important questions she raised. On the issue of capital expenditure within my Department, Deputy Farrell raised a very interesting issue in the context of Covid in...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I point out to Deputy Doherty that I do not come to the House to waffle. If he does not like the answers I give, that is fine, but he should not try to insult people. I am present and I am answerable to the House. I provide answers to the questions I am asked. If he does not like the answers, that is fine. He should try to show a bit of respect.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: Through the Chair, there is a way to take that issue up without insulting somebody who is here trying to answer questions. On the issue of King's Island, as Deputy Quinlivan is aware, it is at design and planning stage. The current level of expenditure is approximately €4.18 million. The expenditure for 2019 is €452,000. I have an interest in this issue because it affects...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will try to respond briefly to the questions from both of the Sinn Féin Deputies.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is Sinn Féin's time.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will try to answer both sets of questions because the Deputies are from the same party. First of all, as I said out at the outset, I apologise for the fact that the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, is not available. There is a Cabinet meeting on the July stimulus which he had to attend. Deputy Farrell referred to a lack of detail in the Revised Estimates. We are fully prepared to...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €42,745,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2020, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, for certain services...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: Clare County Council (CCC) is the contracting authority in relation to the proposed flood relief scheme in Springfield/Clonlara, with funding provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW). The current position is as follows: I am advised and pleased to say that the Part 10 Application for Springfield was submitted by CCC to An Bord Pleanala on Monday 20th July while an associated...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: For a number of years, The Office of Public Works has closed a section of Chesterfield Avenue (from Mountjoy Roundabout to the Phoenix Roundabout) to vehicular traffic on weekends from end of April to the end of September each year. In implementing this closure, traffic was diverted from Chesterfield Ave onto the North Road and the Odd Lamp Road. However, these roads are now experiencing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Covid-19 certification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (22 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: Barryscourt Castle is located near the village of Carrigtwohill in Cork and is owned by the State, with the exception of a Dower House property there which is still retained by the Barryscourt Trust, the original owners of the property. The Castle was discovered in recent years to have significant problems with damp penetration which caused the internal electricity system to become...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (22 Jul 2020)

Patrick O'Donovan: The proposed flood relief scheme for Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, is progressing broadly in line with the current programme. Some delay has been experienced in recent months due to the consultants being unable to carry out the final environmental surveys during the nationwide Covid-19 shutdown. To minimise these delays, the project team worked to progress all other tasks that could be safely...