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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there any indication of how many of the 18 are implemented now and how many have yet to be implemented?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the new enhanced internal audit position done then?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Have the project management guidelines for small capital projects been put in place?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On Vote 13, subhead B6, regarding value for money and the overspend on modular units, I am supportive of everything that is being done to provide housing for people fleeing from war. I think that is necessary and worthwhile work. On the programme to deliver 654 rapid build modular units, the current overspend on the project is €47.9 million. Will the Minister of State talk us...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The overspend is €47.9 million. That is what was provided in a response to a parliamentary question. I would not say it is on budget. The Minister of State is trying to say the unit itself is on budget but the associated costs, which are an integral part, is where the overspend is.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: You cannot put a modular unit in without associated costs. When this is being calculated, are there no calculations about putting in connections? How did we get to a point where that was such a high overrun? I have talked to people who work in the industry and they say that those costs came in exceptionally high. Does the Minister of State accept that point or does he actually think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State about one issue, which is the proposed new Garda station at Northern Cross. This was promised and announced in 2019, not by the previous Government but the one before that, of which the Minister of State was part. Indeed, he was the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works at the time. There has been no progress on this station in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Can he understand the frustration of the local community that the Government he was part of back in 2019 announced this new Garda station, told the local community it would happen, there was agreement about the site, and then six years later we are getting responses indicating a site has yet to be identified? After announcing this new Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is a very unsatisfactory answer from the point of view of the community.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure the additional €15 million is provided to the postal network in order that it can continue to provide an essential nationwide service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36335/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Did the Minister only discover the economic risks and threats posed by the Trump Administration after the election in Ireland took place? That is a very serious question. To justify breaking promises on the basis of the threats posed by the Trump Administration, when it was already in place and we knew that Administration posed huge threats to our economy by the time of our election, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: During the election campaign, Fianna Fáil and its coalition partners, Fine Gael, promised to phase out student fees. That is what they promised in their manifesto. The programme for Government promised to reduce student fees. The Government is now breaking the promises it made and is saying the reason it is doing this is because of economic uncertainty. I do take economic uncertainty...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I want to follow up on the point that has just been made. Much of what the witnesses are saying is that, in an overall sense, we have to make responsible choices. We cannot increase spending and reduce taxation all at once. Did Mr. Conroy say that spending on water infrastructure or investment over the years is at average levels?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What is out of sync though is the demand on that infrastructure.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Conroy saying that what has to be done is either increase investment to meet the demand or make choices on regulating the demand? There have been many discussions on this recently.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is one or the other or we could do a bit of both. On the macro risks to the economy, the witnesses were saying the tariffs are the main risk. Work has been done on potential non-tariff changes that could affect corporation tax receipts. I am thinking of the work done by Dr. Aidan Regan in UCD, and published in the Business Post, on the amount of intellectual property being shored on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The witnesses have said the potential impact is very large. Does Mr. Coffey have an assessment of the risk of something happening?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a lot more questions but I have a final one in this round. On the issue of climate change and the warning in the council's March report about the potential for €26 billion in fines. Mr. Coffey stated in the opening statement that this would be a colossal waste of taxpayers' money and the equivalent to €5,000 per person if the Government does not take effective action....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Following on from that line of questioning, it is striking that in the opening statement and in the work that was done in the 2023 paper on infrastructure, the IFAC has assessed that Ireland's infrastructure is about 25% behind our peers, those being, other high-income countries like Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is an issue around sustainability if we are relying on windfall corporation taxes for day-to-day expenditure. In terms of the risk that is posing to the economy, if the intellectual property shifts and the profits are being paid elsewhere, that corporation tax is not available any more. We are then in a situation of having to cut day-to-day expenditure on services and people are -----