Results 10,421-10,440 of 26,465 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: What was the other question about the once-off payment?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: I call on Deputy Murphy.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: The Deputy is a national figure.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: I am conscious that we have to finish before 3 p.m. I will ask the Minister of State a number of short questions about matters in my constituency which are relevant to the funding of the Minister of State's Department.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: I will be very parochial today and refer to a flood relief scheme in Callan, County Kilkenny. It has been carried out, funded by the OPW through the county council, but the appropriate permissions were not given by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and others for a particular section of the work in time for all of the work to be completed. The part that could be completed is completed...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: Not a long number of years ago. I do not have the date when it was completed.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: I am sure that it is finalised, if that is the question.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: All the permissions are now there but, unfortunately, they could not be put in place at the time. Rather than lose the funding, it was decided to complete the works without that section and now it is that section that is causing the negative impact on the work that has already been done.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: The Minister of State spoke earlier about the other question of insurance. It is the River Nore flood relief scheme, which had its issues with cost but which was a fantastic scheme to watch being delivered. The trucks were going up and down the bed of the river, etc. It was a great engineering achievement. Downriver the OPW facilitated some properties by granting them funds to prepare...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: That is for the works. In the context of the business, there is no insurance because it is beside a river. It is a mill worked from the power of the river. Is there no compensation fund that can cover that?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: Does the maintenance of weirs fall within the remit of the OPW or where does it fall? I had a discussion with the local authority about clearing weirs and it stated it is the OPW's remit, and if one goes to the OPW, it states it is the local authorities' remit.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: Is it a fact that the OPW, Waterways Ireland and the local authority have different types of weirs that they are responsible for or is there one agency that covers the maintenance of all of them?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: What if it is not navigation?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: It falls between the two.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: That is fine. I have two questions on visitor centres and the spreading of numbers. As visitors come to Ireland and are attracted by Kilkenny Castle or the other heritage sites that we spoke about earlier, what plan has the Minister of State in place for the impact of Brexit on visitor numbers? Is there an engagement with the tourism promotion of these sites? Has the Minister of State...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: They are working together and are aware of the issues there might be.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: I am delighted to hear that because there is much more, for example, to Kilkenny than Kilkenny Castle. This brings me to the point on a visit by the OPW to a location in Jerpoint in Kilkenny, which is privately owned. It is the burial ground of St. Nicholas. It is the best example in Europe of the layout of a town. It is completely under grass but it has been presented in a way that one...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: Is that the abbey or is the privately owned-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017) John McGuinness: That is in public ownership. Right beside that there is, as I say, the layout of a whole town.