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Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Status (11 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The OPW remains committed to funding the Ennis south flood relief scheme. As the Deputy will appreciate, as with all public finance projects, it is essential that cost and value for money be assessed closely. An issue arose in regard to the preferred tender for the project and it did not prove possible to resolve this satisfactorily. As a...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Status (11 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: Over recent months, since I became Minister of State I have done a lot of work with Clare County Council on developing the scheme the Deputy talked about. As I said at the outset, what happened was unforeseen. One could not have predicted it. This happens all the time with contracts. What I am saying to the Deputy today is that we have moved beyond him standing up asking for a definite...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes (10 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of Arterial Drainage Schemes and catchment drainage schemes designated under the Arterial Drainage Acts of 1945 and 1995. The channel referred to by the Deputy does not form part of an Arterial Drainage Scheme. Therefore, the OPW has no responsibilities for the maintenance of the channel.  Local flooding issues are a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (4 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: The former Garda station in Quin, Co. Clare was among the 139 Garda stations identified for closure by An Garda Síochána in 2012 and 2013. Many of these properties reverted to the OPW to identify an alternative State use or manage their disposal. In 2016, An Garda Síochána/Policing Authority undertook a review of the closed Garda Stations under the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (4 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: I wish to advise the Deputy that NAMA does not own property. Instead NAMA acquired loans and its role is as a secured lender. NAMA is prohibited from disclosing confidential debtor information under Sections 99 and 202 of the NAMA Act, including information on the location and type of assets owned by debtors. As a result it is not possible to identify particular assets which secure NAMA...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (4 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Commissioners of Public Works, on behalf of the State, manage a large and diverse property portfolio of over 2,500 properties.  These range from office accommodation to heritage properties, visitor centres, Garda stations, among others.    In addition, there are a limited number of sundry residential dwellings that are intrinsic to the estates of parks and gardens as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: In fairness, I met Deputy Browne the day we launched the flood relief plan for Enniscorthy. It is widely known that I travelled around all of County Wexford on that day. I was on social media and the local radio station and others were well aware of where I was. Deputy Browne was welcome to attend the launch if he wanted. Perhaps he would be better off posing his question on rail services...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: The scheme is on public display. The people of Enniscorthy look forward to the project going ahead. I have given Deputy Browne a positive answer to what he has asked me today. We will deal with the matter, but it may require other Departments to sit around the table also. I do not like people saying CIÉ will stop rail services. That is unfair until the report comes to my desk and we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: I visited Wexford. Wexford has done very well since the announcement of catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, scheme when we announced two schemes in Wexford town and one in Enniscorthy. Everybody in the House has raised questions about coastal erosion and put it down that my Department deals with coastal erosion when it is in the remit of local authorities. We work...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Coastal Protection (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: We are waiting for the report that will come in from the local authority to my Department. At that stage, we may have to engage with the different bodies that this affects, such as, as the Deputy says, CIÉ and other bodies that this may fall on. We will have to work together to make sure that what the Deputy is outlining does not happen. It is unfair for anyone in the House to say...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: Since taking up office, I have been in Cork three times and I am fully aware of the issue of flooding. I thank the Deputies for the support they gave me in Cork and the officials of Cork County Council for the work they have done with the Department and the elected members in ensuring that the scheme we announced will get up and moving. In response to the Deputy's question, the catchment...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: CFRAM has identified all these schemes and looked for solutions. We are considering holding ponds and not just walls and so forth. When schemes start to develop and complete, others will be added. That is the process. Where I am working with local authorities, most of what the Deputy proposed here today can be done by the local authority driving on the scheme and we will support it with...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: No scheme has been shelved. The Department is working closely with all local authorities. I am giving the Deputy assurance today that if he goes to the local authority and asks it to take up the Inchigeelagh scheme and drive it forward I will support it with funding. We will work closely together with the local authority on that. That is what I have done since CFRAM was announced. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works (OPW) carries out a national programme, on an average five-yearly cycle, of statutory Arterial Drainage Maintenance to a total of 11,500km of river channel and approximately 730km of embankments nationally. These maintenance works meet the statutory maintenance responsibilities for arterial drainage schemes completed by the OPW under the Arterial Drainage Acts...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (3 Jul 2018)

Kevin Moran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 115 and 116 together. A contract was awarded on 12 February 2018 for the Fit Out of the premises referred to by the Deputy. These works are progressing and scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2018 to allow for occupancy by the Probation and Welfare Services. Any question in relation to the duties at the office referred to by the Deputy should be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Applications (26 Jun 2018)

Kevin Moran: I have been advised that the Office of Public Works has not received an application from Kildare County Council under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection scheme for the area mentioned in the Deputy’s question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (21 Jun 2018)

Kevin Moran: The former Garda station on Roche’s Road, Wexford closed on the 22ndSeptember 2017. The Garda authorities do not have an ongoing requirement for the property having relocated to the newly built Garda station on Mulgannon Road, Wexford. The OPW's policy with regard to non-operational (vacant) State property including the former Garda station, Roche’s Road, Wexford is to: 1....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (19 Jun 2018)

Kevin Moran: A contract has been awarded for the fit-out of the former Department of Social Protection premises in Newbridge for the Probation and Welfare Services.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (19 Jun 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme was the largest ever flood risk study carried out in the State and covered 300 areas believed to be at significant flood risk. The CFRAM programme culminated with the launch on 3rdMay, 2018 of 29 flood risk management plans which propose118 new outline flood relief projects on top of the 42 major projects already completed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (19 Jun 2018)

Kevin Moran: It is a matter in the first instance, for each local authority to identify, investigate and address priority areas of their coastlines considered to be under significant threat from erosion. It is open to Sligo County Council to undertake coastal erosion remedial works using its own resources. If necessary, it may also put forward proposals to the relevant central Government Departments for...