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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance if the treatment of corporation tax loss relief with respect to a bank (details supplied) has or will change, given the State no longer has a shareholding in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8980/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 16 February 2023, if a requirement for payment service providers to compensate customers where authorised push-payment fraud occurs would require new legislation, to, for example, give the Central Bank powers to require compensation; if such legislation would be possible under PSD2; and if he will make a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The first point of approval that is required from the Department-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Let me finish, please. I just said that there is no suggestion by me that there is some ulterior motive. I made a point that I believe-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I did not clarify it; I already stated that the Minister of State is trying to make politics out of this issue-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: -----in circumstances where houses and businesses are at the risk of being flooded. I clearly made the point that it is in the interests of the Minister of State that this project should go ahead. What I am really frustrated about is that, a year on, the seafront scheme has not progressed. The Government is responsible for the implementation of this scheme. We have a situation whereby the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I also said, and I will finish on this point on Donegal town, that as Minister of State, he needs to butt heads to ensure that whatever the blame game is here between the Department, the local authority and the OPW, the matter needs to be resolved because the people on the ground do not care about that. They want this scheme to progress. As the Minister of State, he needs to take charge and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on to other schemes now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The attitude of the Minister of State in respect of houses in my constituency that belong to businesses and homeowners and that are at risk of being flooded is disgraceful. Honest to God-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Honest to God.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This scheme needs to progressed, for God’s sake.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is appreciated. It would be very appropriate.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the vice chair. On the OPW flood relief capital works programme, ten schemes are ongoing with the council in County Donegal. I refer to the schemes in Ballybofey, Buncrana, Burnfoot, Castlefin, Glenties, Kerrykeel, Lifford, Downings, Ramelton and Raphoe. All of these schemes are badly needed, and it is very welcome that they are ongoing. None of the schemes has progressed past...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State believe that an application from Donegal County Council could in any way expedite the timeframes he just outlined? I am thinking, in particular, of Lifford. We are conscious of the challenges in respect of that scheme. In that context, 2025 is a long way away.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: On flood risk management plans, I was examining the period from December 2021. It is stated that €1.3 billion has been committed to the delivery of 118 schemes. Some 60 of these schemes were under way at the time, with 58 remaining to be completed by 2030. How many of those schemes are still awaiting commencement?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We would appreciate that breakdown. I presume that some of the 58 to which I refer are now ongoing. In turn, I presume that the number of ongoing schemes has increased. If the Minister of State could provide details of the 118 schemes in tabular form, that would be great.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: In relation to the vacant properties under the control of the OPW, the Minister of State identified 70 vacant properties and 33 vacant sites in information released by the Department in July last year. Can the Minister of State provide an update on those numbers? What is the current number of vacant properties and sites within the OPW's portfolio? I acknowledge that some of these are not...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Finally, I come to the issue of the Garda headquarters. It is great to see that the new venue is open. The new accommodation is open as of last year at a cost in the region of €86 million. We discussed this in the past. I made the point to the Minister of State that the OPW was planning for a property that was of insufficient capacity to house the Garda. The Minister of State made...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: But it is not big enough. The Minister of State talks about an application at the time. I understand the Military Road building is designed for 880 gardaí, which is 200 fewer than the number in Harcourt Street in 2016, and the number working in headquarters has increased by over 400 in the intervening five years. The building was only opened in November last year and it is too small...