Results 1,661-1,680 of 10,778 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- 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: Without landing the organisation in it, the answer is "Yes". We are open to everything. We have Reginald's Tower-----
- 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: Absolutely. It is in our interests to get as many people through these buildings as possible. Whatever it is we engage with local communities on, whether it relates to Christmas markets, educational programmes or whatever, we are certainly open to anything that puts a greater number of people through buildings for educational purposes, once the integrity of the building is not in any way...
- 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 Waterford.
- 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: Mount Congreve is not owned by the OPW but it is in a relationship with it. Mount Congreve is run by a trust. We support it and do a lot of work on it.
- 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: If I had my way, and it is above my paygrade, many buildings in public ownership that add significant historical value to the country as a whole should be in the proper clean ownership of the OPW. I am not talking about Mount Congreve in isolation or any such site. Over the past 200-odd years, we have maintained the historical value of our building network. Some organisations, whether they...
- 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. It is magnificent.
- 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 was asked last night, for instance, why the home of Charles Stewart Parnell is not in the charge of the OPW. I said that it was a good question and if the person asking it found out the answer to come back to me.
- 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 not going to see it close down. I am sure, as Chairman of the finance committee, he will not allow it to be closed down.
- 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: Yes.
- 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 this for 2024?
- 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 end of last year, we purchased a building for use by a Department not too far away from here. I presume-----
- 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: One relates to the purchase of a property in Sligo town. There are also ones in Mullingar and Drogheda so these are all in rural locations.
- 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: Yes, expansion.
- 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 will do 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: No. We have apprentice machine drivers working on flood risk, apprentice joiners, carpenters, stonemasons, upholsterers-----
- 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: An increase to €400,000 per annum was sought in the 2023 Estimates and €250,000 was provided for in the 2024 Estimates. Waterford City and County Council has sought an extension to the agreement until 2028 with the provision of €250,000 in each of the years from 2025 to 2027. Great credit has to go to that council as well. This has been substantially funded by 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: It is for State accommodation.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (30 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is responsible for the maintenance of arterial drainage schemes completed under the Arterial Drainage Acts, 1945 and 1995, as amended. The location concerned is in proximity to the Maine Arterial Drainage Scheme. Officials from the OPW South West Region, Drainage Maintenance Office, met with the landowner concerned and on foot of that meeting they are...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: More time is needed to collate the information on the refurbishment of Kilkenny Castle. OPW will respond directly to the Deputy in this regard.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: Additional time is needed to address the question tabled by the Deputy. OPW will response directly to the Deputy in this regard.