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- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (31 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: Ballincollig Weir, which is part of Ballincollig Regional Park, is in the ownership of Cork City Council since the boundary change between Cork County and City in June 2019. The Weir had apparently been in disrepair for many years before a breach occurred in December 2014, which has left the weir in extremely poor condition. While there are no hydraulic benefits to the flood relief scheme...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (31 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: Tá maoiniú caipitil €15.6 milliún san iomlán curtha ar fáil do mo Roinn faoi Thionscnamh an Oileáin Chomhroinnte, chun tionscadail nua a fhorbairt sna réimsí a thagann faoi chúram na Roinne seo. Baineann €2 milliún den allúntas seo le tionscadail a fhorbairt in earnáil na Gaeilge agus na hUltaise ar mhaithe le tuiscint...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéisí Ranna (31 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: Ar mhaithe le tacú tuilleadh le cur chun cinn na n-ealaíon teangabhunaithe mar thaca breise d'fhorfheidhmiú na Straitéise 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus an Phlean Gníomhaíochta 2018-2023 lena mbaineann, rinne mo Roinn, idir Rannán na Gaeltachta agus Éire Ildánach, taighde a choimisiúnú faoin ábhar seo in 2018. Is é...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the welcome to me and the officials of the Office of Public Works. I am pleased to be before the committee again to present the 2024 Revised Estimate for the Office of Public Works. The gross allocation for 2024 is €645 million, which comprises €140 million for climate-responsive flood risk management and €505 million to be invested in...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: I will take the last point first. As Deputy Durkan will know, the issue of Castletown House has preoccupied me and the Department for quite a long time. I have never attempted to blame anybody for what is going on down there and I do not believe any of our officials would wish to. However, the reality is we sought in good faith to buy the lands adjoining Castletown House that were...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: It has also been established for many generations that vehicles access Castletown House via Lime Avenue. Kildare County Council, the OPW and Irish Water all do so. It is not true to say that it does not have vehicular access, and everybody knows that. If you go out there-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: That is a moot point. To say-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: There is no point in me saying that there was not vehicular access when there was and is vehicular access. That does-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: Give me a chance to finish. That does not mean that we are adverse to finding a solution that involves the M4. However, we do not own that land. We have to have respect for the people who own the land adjacent to us. It also does not mean that we discontinue any sort of dialogue with our neighbours. We are not going to do that either. It is in our interest to restore the lands in their...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: We are acutely aware of the Deputy's concerns and we are working towards a solution.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: There was a time when the Deputy and Deputy Conway-Walsh were the ones at war, but we will not mention that at all.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: I am not the Minister for Social Protection or the Minster for enterprise. If the Deputy has details of specific cases with regard to individual applicants and he forwards them on to me, I will have the relevant Ministers look at them. That is not the responsibility of the OPW.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: No, that is not the case. In 2017, this was a much smaller scheme. It was a scheme with €17 million worth of funding, which was to protect a much smaller area. The sources of flooding at the time were not the sources of flooding. We are now designing defences to protect against a once-in-100-years event, where there is flooding in Midleton from four sources. I do not know if the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Patrick O'Donovan: Members of Cork County Council would tell the Deputy, if he met them, that there is flooding from four sources. It is unique. There is flooding from an underground source, like a turlough, flooding from the tide, flooding from the rain and flooding from insufficient capacity in the river. It is a totally different comparison now, with a €50 million scheme in 2024. That is the stage...