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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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (23 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 Risk Management (23 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The data gathered from the recently installed Hydrometric Gauge on the Hazelhatch Stream has assisted and informed the OPW and Kildare County Council engineers in analysing and identifying the causes of recent flooding in the area. The OPW understands that the more frequent flooding experienced in the area was due to a blockage of the culverts at Willow Dale and Willow Avenue...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Status (18 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The answer to Deputy Calleary's question is that the review of CFRAM will be announced in a few weeks. On the Deputy's question about flood maps, I can assure him that the CFRAM maps are not being used by Insurance Ireland and I will not allow it to do so. They are done on a regional basis, not on a house-to-house basis. If Insurance Ireland is using maps, it is using its own and not of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (18 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: A new ten-year capital plan is in the process of being finalised. The plan, which will be published alongside the new national planning framework, Ireland 2040, will set out the Government's intentions on public capital investment beyond 2021. Details on the exact level of funding over the period 2022 to 2027 cannot be confirmed in advance of the publication of the plan. The Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (18 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: There 130 projects coming from CFRAM, of which 47 prioritise that. I need €1 billion to cover all flood sites.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Flood Prevention Measures (18 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The Erne catchment is being assessed under the Office of Public Works and co-operation with the river section in the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. This co-operation is part of the joint implementation of the EU flood directive, and therefore the Erne catchment in both Ireland and Northern Ireland is fully assessed as part of the CFRAM study. On the Erne catchment,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Status (18 Jan 2018)

Kevin Moran: The following tables set out the position on major flood relief schemes, that is, those that were at construction in 2017 and those that will be at construction stage in 2018. Table 1 (Schemes at construction in 2017) Scheme Status Athlone, Co Westmeath At construction since 2017; expected completion end of 2020 Bandon, Co Cork Construction ongoing; expected completion second half 2019...