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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No, I am genuinely asking this question. What is it that needs to be done?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. As a representative for that area-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I would never suggest I am unique. I am just making the point that as a representative for that part of the constituency, as are others, I have a genuine question I need to ask the Minister of State. I know he said he has answered it three times-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The people and all the public representatives in Donegal want that scheme to go ahead, so can the Minister of State explain to me, because he says it is in tranche 2, if it is Donegal County Council, the OPW, the Minister of State or the Department which has the power to move it ahead? What are we waiting for?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Who has to make it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No, that is not-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not fair.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, it is Donegal County Council, and the members in-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No. I want to know the process-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: With respect-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Vice Chairman for that intervention. With respect, we are going through the Estimates here and we are supposed to look at the outcomes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: This is about the Estimates. We are supposed to look at the numbers and the outcomes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking about the process of authorising this type of work and asking the Minister of State to help me to understand this process. Is the next stage a joint decision-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: -----in the context of which Donegal County Council has the authority to move this work along to the next stage in conjunction with the Department? Is that the process?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is the OPW. Okay. Donegal County Council wants to move this project on, so why has the OPW not-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It would be helpful if the Department or the OPW can send to the committee information regarding the different stages of a programme like this and who authorises them. I would like to see the details of the joint authority Donegal County Council shares with the OPW, which the Minister of State has said he has referred to on five occasions, and how that process works. I ask that because if...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Regarding the situation in Lifford, when I raised this project with the Minister of State last year, he explained that consultants had been appointed at the design stage and that the public exhibition stage would begin in early 2022. Will the Minister of State let us know where we stand regarding progress there? I also ask him to give us an update on any progress in Burnfoot and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Please God, all going to plan.