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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) Peadar Tóibín: Again, Minister of State-----
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: This is getting tiresome.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: I am trying to get answers. If we are not going to have this scheme completed within the nine-year period, what interim measures will the Minister of State put in place to make sure people are not inundated with water again in the meantime?
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: To clarify, is it the case that the Minister of State does not have specific interim proposals for defences?
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: I will move on to accommodation for asylum seekers. In June 2022, the Government promised to deliver rapid-build homes within a short time to accommodate Ukrainians living here. My understanding is that less than half the promised number have been built. Is that correct?
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: How many units were built in Thurles?
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: As of now, however, less than half of what was promised in June 2022 has been delivered.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: Only 300 are fully completed.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: Another issue I want to raise concerns a project in which I am not sure whether the OPW is involved. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has procured 37 buildings for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers and people from Ukraine. My understanding from the reply to a parliamentary question I put to him is that only one of those buildings has been repurposed. At least 20 of them 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) Peadar Tóibín: I was not sure whether the OPW is involved. It often manages buildings for other Departments.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: In response to a parliamentary question I put into the Minister of State last November, he admitted that the OPW had 87 empty buildings across the country. Has there been an improvement since then in that figure?
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: I wish to make a final point on that. At a time when crime and antisocial behaviour are significant issues in so many communities, it is striking that so many Garda stations are being sold off by the State as a result of them being closed in the past ten years.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: If the Minister of State does not understand that the primary concern of the people of Midleton at the moment is when this relief scheme will be built, there is a major difficulty and a major disconnect between him and the people. This project is their primary concern.
- 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) Peadar Tóibín: There are a couple of issues I want to deal with. The first is the flooding in Midleton. It goes to the heart of a major problem that exists in this Government in terms of the delivery of projects. The Minister of State alluded to it when he stated that Lough Funshinagh engineering projects could have been delivered 20 years ago and that they have to jump through so many hoops now. It...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Dillon proved my point in thanking the Government for giving refurbishment grants for a post office and a Garda station it closed. The point is the Government is closing key public services in these types of towns. Those buildings are becoming derelict and now the Government is coming back with a few bob to do up the windows and the roof a little bit. This is why so many of these...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I worked on its reopening.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I worked on that too.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I campaigned for all three of those projects.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: How much money has been drawn down and spent by the Minister's Department in making sure that vacancy is transformed into use?