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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: In fairness, not every project-----
- 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: Not every scheme requires a judicial review or is subject to judicial review. Some of them have not been given approval to move to the next stage, such as the Donegal town scheme, as I have discussed at length with the Minister of State. The families do not care whether it is Donegal County Council or the OPW that is at fault.
- 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 fairness, the chairperson asked for €70 million more than the Minister of State allocated over the past three years so I would agree with that statement from the Minister of State. However, that does not mean nobody is at fault because some projects are delayed or not given approval. Sometimes that approval is not given sufficiently quickly. I would like to ask about the River...
- 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 believe that they did. There was discussion between them. The former Minister of State, Kevin Boxer Moran, was very hands-on in regard to this issue. I ask the Minister of State to pick that up.
- 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. I appreciate that. I have raised another issue in the same vicinity with the Minister of State previously. Numerous Garda stations have been closed down by previous Governments and some are lying idle. One of them is the old Bunbeg Garda station, which was hit by lightning. It was not actually closed down by the Government; it was hit by lightning. It is in a bad state. Is the...
- 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 near the industrial estate.
- 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 pay tribute to the staff in the OPW because they engaged in the past with regard to potentially leasing it to community groups at a nominal value, as has happened in other areas. There is an issue across the road from that site. This small Garda station was hit by lightning and had serious damage done to it. I am not sure what other use it could be used for. There is a school across the...
- 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: Or a 100-year lease.
- 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 have never damned the Minister of State on that issue.
- 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 not jump to conclusions. If the Minister of State wants to take that approach, that is fine. He is entitled to do so. I am making a point. He might be familiar with that site.
- 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: As he said, Dinny McGinley used to be the headmaster of the school opposite. Currently, people park on that site we are discussing. I was not aware of its planned sale in July, which will increase the problem in regard to parking and road safety in that area, even before the school is extended, as already approved by the Department. This is a genuine issue. There has always been an...
- 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: Yes, exactly.
- 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. I thank the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Of course it is going to be operational in September 2022. We have known that since last year when the budget was allocated for this year. We knew that. When are the schools going to be notified? Is the Minister saying they will be notified on the eve of it becoming operational or are they going to be notified in August or perhaps July, June or April? Does she know when schools are going...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Which month?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the additional schools added to the DEIS programme will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4712/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: In my own constituency and especially in west Donegal, I regularly engage with principals and boards of management of schools in the DEIS scheme. Despite being an area of deprivation by all accounts and statistics, the 2017 DEIS review excluded some primary and post-primary schools in my area that should not have been excluded. As part of the budget, the Minister announced a 20% increase in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: My question is quite simple. When are the schools going to know whether they are in or out of the expanded DEIS programme? That is what principals are asking me. Principals in secondary schools are saying they need to do workforce planning and look at what we are offering schools. They cannot be told in July or August whether they are in a DEIS category or not. I have been raising the...
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Last week, I said that there should be a step change in Government policy around how we deal with children and adolescents in the context of mental health. This should be a watershed. It should be a moment in time when we say we can no longer allow our services to be so depleted and exhausted that so many people go without and those to whom services are provided receive, in some cases,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I would like clarity on whether the Taoiseach is going facilitate the Minister coming to the Chamber or not, because he avoided the question.