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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: As the witching hour approaches in terms of the approaching Brexit deadline, has the Taoiseach discussed with the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council the arrangements that will be put in place with regard to Irish hauliers, for example, coming to French ports? From the French media, I understand that they will have an EU queue, into which I assume...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Following the last election, there were three, at least, career civil servants who were in the Department of the Taoiseach and formerly had been working in the office of the Tánaiste in the context of the Department of the Taoiseach. They were allocated to assisting in a Civil Service manner. The Taoiseach referred to them on several occasions and to the work they were doing in terms...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the role he has in the provision and contribution of services for persons experiencing deafness; the commitments he will give to ensure the continuation of services to a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6825/19]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State is very welcome here. There are a couple of things I would like to be enlightened on, if possible. I understand the Cabinet meeting is probably finished and I would like to know, in the context of the revision of the Estimates which is being undertaken, what, if anything, the OPW has been asked to bear. In terms of any potential reductions, where has the OPW agreed to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Given the well regarded national and international expertise of the OPW in the management of a wide variety of projects, is the Minister of State telling us that this repository of knowledge of Government projects has not been asked for any advice? None of the commissioners is sitting on the multiple hospital boards that are overseeing the children's hospital project. I am aware that the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Can I ask the Minister of State-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: That is the rate for 2019, but we have been reading that the rate of inflation is multiples of that figure for the children's hospital project. Going back to the expertise of the Office of Public Works, the projects listed by the Minister of State in the papers are complex, wide-ranging and based all around the country, including Dublin. Is he not surprised by the rate of inflation about...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Major mechanical and electrical work is being undertaken in Leinster House. Is Mr. Buckley saying that level of inflation is being experienced in respect of the works in Leinster House? What level of inflation has the OPW provided for in respect of the Leinster House works?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State indicated that €15 million was the original estimate. Is he saying the final costs will be €17 million or maybe €20 million?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State putting the cost within the ambit of inflation figure he has been using?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The reason for the increase is extra work which had not been identified until the building had been opened up. However, the cost of the normal work being done is increasing by 6% or 7% up to about 11% or 12%, which are the figures the Minister of State cited.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I return to the OPW's relationship with children's hospital. In other major projects such as Abbotstown, the National Aquatic Centre and so on, where independent companies were involved in construction, the OPW or people with experience of the OPW were heavily involved in those projects, partly for technical reasons and expertise, but also, I imagine, for reasons of proper management and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Mr. Buckley is not aware of the OPW playing that type of role in the children's hospital project.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Nobody in the OPW has been chatting about seeing this, that or the other at the children's hospital.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Mr. Buckley mentioned the Department of Education and Skills. I am sure he is aware of the schools where there is a major scare relating to serious defects, especially in schools in Fingal in north Dublin and in Tyrrelstown in Dublin West. While I know they were design-build contracts of their time, from more than ten years ago, I understand that the Office of Public Works, OPW, gave advice...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: When does the Minister of State expect the gates to be completed or could the axe fall on them in the context of current cutbacks?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State expand on his comment on the €3 million reduction? On profiled capital expenditure, he has a sum of €19.4 million pencilled in in 2019. There is a figure of €3 million for a project in Blackpool; €6 million in Douglas; €5 million in Ennis south; €3 million in Glashaboy; €1.6 million in lower Morell; and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Let me interrupt the Minister of State. He has included a figure of €76 million in the Estimate. I have totted up the figures on page 5 and they roughly come to the €76 million mentioned in the Estimate. The Minister of State correctly states he will not touch the first lot of projects and some of the second lot and that the ones due to start in 2019 could be delayed. There...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I have a brief question related to flooding. On planning, what is the relationship between the OPW, CFRAM and the local authorities? Part of the Tolka river basin in my constituency is in an area called Barnhill or Barberstown. Historically, there has been significant flooding in fields in this area every four or five years and also during periods of very heavy rain. The area is marked on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not expect the Minister of State to be familiar with it, but I was asking him whether the local authority was obliged to consult the OPW.