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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Turning to Ms Morgan, would that have required the approval of a Minister, and which Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I ask her to come back to me on that, please.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am sure that would require ministerial approval in the general run of things.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The parent Department being the Department of public expenditure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Who was the Minister at the time? Was it Paschal Donohoe?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will not get into that part of it here. Deputy O'Connor is next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The type of work we are looking at across those five towns and villages would include channel widening and removing bridges where the eye is too small.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: What are other countries doing to shorten the time? That is what I want to know.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: If it is taking 48 months for scheme development and preliminary design, somebody who had a full head of hair at the start of the process would be bald by the time a scheme comes on stream.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: At what stage is the Mountmellick scheme? Five stages are set out in the briefing. Is it at stage 3, which is detailed design?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is that stage 2?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Seven years on, we are still stuck at stage 1. At the rate this is going, a lot of us will not be around when the project is constructed. It has to go through five stages. The length of time it is taking is leading to an increase in costs but my main concern is the impact every time there is heavy rainfall. Unfortunately, due to climate change, rainfall levels are getting more intense....

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: I know it turned out to be a bigger job than expected. There is a whole area that now requires installation of a flood defence. I know that from talking to somebody in the local authority about it. Is there anything that can be done to advance progress? Deputy Murphy made a helpful suggestion about doing some of the steps in tandem. Surely we can do something to advance the Mountmellick...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The design is fairly detailed, involving walls and embankments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Can the public exhibition period be shortened to a month? It should be well advertised locally but it does not need to go on for 24 months. The planning process should not take as long as it does. Does the planning application go straight to An Bord Pleanála or does it go to the local authority?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It will go to the local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Laois County Council will not take that long to process it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We have covered the collateral damage and the costs associated with it. If the town is flooded again, in a more intense way than it was in 2017, we will be looking at huge costs to businesses and householders. An elderly couple had water nearly up to the windowsills of their house on Manor Road. I am thinking of that elderly couple and others whose homes were flooded. Will Mr. Casey come...