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Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We asked that everybody have-----

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1: In Schedule 2, inserted by paragraph (l), by the substitution of the following for the row dated 1 May 2023: " 1 May 2023 €483.34 €483.34 €425.45 €425.45 €425.45 €0.00 €164.23 €11 1.14 €142.76 €79.17 ...

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: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the committee to deal with the Estimates. Part of the Minister of State's opening contribution dealt with the issue of flood management, which is a major concern for many communities, and particularly those communities subject to flooding over recent years. I will begin by asking the Minister...

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 Minister of State. The council is fully aware of that, and has assessed this. In absence of progressing the CFRAM scheme, the council will obviously continue to apply for short-term works, and all the rest. However, let us not kid ourselves. These properties will still be at risk of flooding. That is Clareden Drive. That is what has happened in Donegal town in five years out...

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: For information, since the Minister of State knows this inside-out, does the local authority need approval for consultants to be appointed for the design of the scheme?

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 has to be done before it can do planning.

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 not the point. I agree with the Minister of State's points and am not contradicting them at all but that is not the issue at heart here. The issue at heart is the approval for Donegal town to advance a CFRAM scheme. The Minister of State is giving the impression, and can correct me if I am wrong, that it is solely in the hands of Donegal County Council to advance that scheme 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: The council is not saying that. It says it needs approval from the Minister of State's organisation.

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: It wants more staff but it is not saying that that is the difficulty in Donegal town.

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 us be clear about this. Nobody has objected to Donegal town.

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 Minister of State did.