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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 cannot answer for accommodation issues that are within the remit of the Department of children.

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 does, and we are building a substantial amount of accommodation for the Department of children under the Ukrainian directive.

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: As I have said on a number of occasions at this committee, in the case of a lot of the buildings we have, there are huge title issues. They include old Garda stations that, once upon a time, were RIC stations that might not have title. They might have been taken off an estate or whatever. There is one such building in my constituency, the tile of which needs to be established before it can...

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. The Deputy is right that on 17 November we issued a report to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform which addressed the issues of supplementary information it required under environmental impact assessment. It would not be appropriate or the norm for us to query that Department as it is the planning authority. The Minister at the Department...

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: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is a matter for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform as the planning authority here with regard to the significance or otherwise of the information that is submitted. If it, as the planning authority, deems it to be significant beyond what would normally be submitted by way of further information, there may be a...

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 is based on the significance. There have been cases in the past where significant further information was required to go on public display and a period of public consultation.

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: The project is specific. In an ideal world, notwithstanding the merits of the Arterial Drainage Act which Deputy Durkan alluded to a while ago, I would prefer to see these applications made to the likes of An Bord Pleanála. If an application for a flood relief scheme goes through Part 10 of the Local Government Act, we know the definite timeframes as a result. Unfortunately, with an...

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: At the same time, notwithstanding the problems on the Deel river in Crossmolina, in other locations around the country the Act has been used very successfully and works are under construction. King's Island in Limerick city will probably go to tender this year. Once we get a positive answer from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in 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: What page is the Deputy on 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: I did not interrupt.

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 reached out at the time to every entity that owns public land in Ireland, including all the local authorities. We used some of our own land, we used land from the Land Development Agency, LDA, and we got some local authority land. The number of completions are as follows: 64 units in Mahon in Cork, completed on 16 June 2023; 28 units in Cavan, on an OPW site, completed on 29 August; an...

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: Is it key outputs for public service activities?

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 refers to cumulative financial damages avoided by the completion of-----

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: In recent years we have had some delays. I would imagine that in the coming years, as we see completions such as in Templemore, Ashbourne and a couple of others which will actually be completed this year, that will substantially raise the number of properties that are protected. More are currently under construction such as Springfield, Clonlara in County Clare. As they come on board and...

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: When the Deputy says compensation, is she is talking about the schemes for businesses and homeowners?

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 do not have those but I can get them for her. I can provide some examples in correspondence to the Deputy. For instance, we can consider what might have happened in Mallow, Fermoy and Clonmel in the absence of flood relief schemes. We can extrapolate based on the storms in Munster in the middle of last year. Those three towns would definitely have flooded in the absence of the schemes....

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: In a word, planning. We have been ambitious to try to make sure we get more schemes animated through a design process. Some have gone down the road of a judicial review or an objection. For example, Blackpool is a village within the centre of Cork city. That is a large and complicated scheme which has been delayed on the basis of environmental considerations. We would have profiled that...

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 flattered to be asked but I am not a Minister of State at the Department of public expenditure and reform.

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: On what we have to deliver, notwithstanding the difficulties that we have, we are well resourced both on our estate side and our climate adaptation side. In 2023, we overshot the runway for capital. I have often been in front of this committee and other committees. I would say it is always better to ask for forgiveness than permission. As a Minister of State and a public representative, I...

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 have had positive engagement with the Minister, Deputy Harris, regarding young school-leavers. It involves using the likes of Engineers Ireland to promote the prospect of careers in the public sector, including specialist careers that will add value to what we need to do here. This is not just an OPW issue. I am sure if the Railway Procurement Agency, or TII, whatever it is called, was...