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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (6 Feb 2018)

Kevin Moran: Clare County Council (CCC) has requested approval to advance a detailed project-level assessment and design to address flooding in the Springfield, Cloonlara, Co. Clare. The OPW has approved funding for the appointment of consultants by CCC. The Council has engaged consultants to complete the detailed design to determine if a viable flood defence scheme can be implemented to defend the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (31 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme involves the production of predictive flood mapping for each location, the development of preliminary flood risk management options and the production of Flood Risk Management Plans. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (31 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Glashaboy Flood Relief Scheme will be submitted to the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform for Confirmation under the Arterial Drainage Acts in the coming weeks. This is the final element of the planning process for the Scheme after which the procurement process will commence to bring the scheme to construction stage. Subject to a satisfactory outcome, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes Applications (31 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works (OPW) carries out a programme of Arterial Drainage Maintenance to a total of 11,500 km of river channel and approximately 730 km of embankments nationally. These maintenance works relate to arterial drainage schemes completed by the OPW under the Arterial Drainage Acts 1945 and 1995. The OPW has a statutory duty to maintain the completed schemes in proper repair...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: Stepaside Garda is in the full ownership of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. The station was closed on 14 March 2013 as part of the rationalisation programme of An Garda Síochána, as announced in the 2013 Policing Plan. The Commissioners put a guardianship arrangement in place with Camelot in 2014. My officials have advised Camelot that, in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: Following the severe storms of December 2013 and January 2014 and based on estimates provided by the local authorities concerned, funding of up to €69.5 million was made available for a programme of repair and remediation works to roads, coastal protection and flood defence and other public infrastructure damaged in the storms. Of the total amount of funding available, up to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Closures (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works that the following former Garda Stations were sold from 2007 to 2017 in County Longford and County Westmeath: Year Property AMV Sale Amount 2007 Former Garda Station, Longford, Co. Longford * €2,000,000 2008 Former Garda Station, Granard, Co. Longford * €40,283 2014 Former Garda Station, Ballymore, Co. Westmeath...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The primary objective of Government policy on coastal flood protection is to ensure that in areas identified as being at greatest risk of damage or loss of economic assets through coastal flooding, appropriate and sustainable measures are identified to protect those assets and, where such measures are economically justified on cost benefit grounds and compatible with all required...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: Before a likely date can be announced, staff from the Office of Public Works and the National Monuments’ Service of the Department of Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht must land on the island, assess any weathering damage to it over the winter months, complete an assessment of the work necessary to rectify that, and estimate the effort necessary to make the pier, slipway, landing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme, which is being undertaken by engineering consultants on behalf of the OPW working in partnership with the local authorities, involves the production of predictive flood mapping for each...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme, which is being undertaken by engineering consultants on behalf of the OPW working in partnership with the local authorities, involves the production of predictive flood mapping for each...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: On Sunday 21 January 2018, an extreme flood event occurred on the Mulkear River catchment following significant rainfall. Preliminary investigations by the Office of Public Works (OPW) of the flood event, which included review of the hydrometric gauging stations that monitor water levels within the overall Mulkear catchment, indicate that record high levels were reached. A residential...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme, which is being undertaken by engineering consultants on behalf of the OPW working in partnership with the local authorities, involves the production of predictive flood mapping for each...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (30 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme, which is being undertaken by engineering consultants on behalf of the OPW working in partnership with the local authorities, involves the production of predictive flood mapping for each...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (25 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Office of Public Works (OPW) owns the site known as Murdock’s Carpark which incorporates Westgate House and the remains of the old town wall. For the past number of years a portion of land to the rear of Westgate House and in front of the Garda Station has been managed, by agreement, by Louth County Council (LCC) for the purpose of a public car park. All charges in relation to this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Flood Relief Schemes Status (24 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Senator for raising this matter today and I am pleased to provide an update on the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, Glanmire, County Cork. Good progress is being made in advancing this much needed scheme. I have visited many of the areas in Cork that have experienced flooding and I am fully committed to ensuring that the flooding problems in these areas are dealt with as quickly...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Flood Relief Schemes Status (24 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: I can assure the Senator that no one knows more about the hardship which has been caused to these people than I do because I have visited many of the areas affected. I fully appreciate where the Senator is coming from. He does a lot of good work in the area. I assure him that as soon as we get approval, I will ensure engineers from the OPW work with the local authority to speed up the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Derelict Sites (24 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: Under Section 28(2) of the State Property Act, 1954, land vested in or held in trust for a body corporate immediately prior to its dissolution, (other than land held by such body in trust for another person) becomes property of the State in the person of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The interest acquired by the Minister is described as a defeasible interest as it may be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (24 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Commissioners of Public Works have no current requirement for additional accommodation in the Killarney area and therefore it is not intended to purchase the property.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (23 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The number of visitors to Maynooth Castle for the years in question were as follows: Year Total Visitor Numbers to Maynooth Castle Numbers that availed of a guided tour. Total Visitor Numbers to Maynooth Castle 2014 25,2682014 15,38425,268 2015 21,8432015 10,81921,843 2016 21,8922016 10,09121,892 2017 (Provisional & subject to change) 22,7862017 (Provisional & subject...