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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: In 2022, the Office of Public Works (OPW) offered a State owned building, Unit 153 in the Shannon Business Park to the Department of Children, Equality, Diversity, Integration and Children, as a potential location for the accommodation of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. The Department asked the OPW to consider a design and layout which would facilitate occupation by Ukrainian refugees...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Insurance Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department of Finance has overall responsibility for policy matters in relation to insurance, including flood insurance. Government policy on flood insurance is centred on significant investment in sustainable flood risk management and the exchange of information between the insurance industry and the Office of Public Works (OPW) on completed flood relief schemes, as outlined under....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Investment in the Coirib go Cósta – Galway City Flood Relief Scheme is financed by the Government through the €1.3bn for flood relief measures under the National Development Plan to 2030, which has allowed the OPW to treble the number of flood relief schemes nationally at design, planning, and construction stages to some 100 schemes. With regards to the projected cost...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Feb 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 forms part of the Corrib-Headford Arterial Drainage Scheme. The channel at the location is prioritised as it drains the area surrounding and including Headford Town. A recent inspection of the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: In 2022, in line with a commitment in the Programme for Government, my Department commissioned the company, BDO, to carry out a review of the process by which the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta is appointed. A copy of the review conducted by BDO is available at the following link - www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/0ba1e-board-of-udaras -na-gaeltachta/. Following on from...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (7 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: In accordance with the provisions of the Gaeltacht Act 2012, the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta consists of five members nominated by Local Authorities with Gaeltacht areas under their jurisdiction, as well as seven other members selected by the Minister following a public competition organised by the Public Appointments Service. Proposals to amend existing legislation - which...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (1 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: In order to fulfill its reporting and planning requirments, Údaras na Gaeltachta gathers employment figures annually to the end of October. Research conducted by ABSEI of Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies, in which ten or more employees were employed in 2022, demonstrated that Gaeltacht businesses had a significant positive economic impact. The client companies had...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (1 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have received a deportation order from the Department of Justice and continue to be in receipt of a social welfare payment or payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4675/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ballincollig Weir, which is part of Ballincollig Regional Park, is in the ownership of Cork City Council since the boundary change between Cork County and City in June 2019. The Weir had apparently been in disrepair for many years before a breach occurred in December 2014, which has left the weir in extremely poor condition. While there are no hydraulic benefits to the flood relief scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Tá maoiniú caipitil €15.6 milliún san iomlán curtha ar fáil do mo Roinn faoi Thionscnamh an Oileáin Chomhroinnte, chun tionscadail nua a fhorbairt sna réimsí a thagann faoi chúram na Roinne seo. Baineann €2 milliún den allúntas seo le tionscadail a fhorbairt in earnáil na Gaeilge agus na hUltaise ar mhaithe le tuiscint...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéisí Ranna (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ar mhaithe le tacú tuilleadh le cur chun cinn na n-ealaíon teangabhunaithe mar thaca breise d'fhorfheidhmiú na Straitéise 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010-2030 agus an Phlean Gníomhaíochta 2018-2023 lena mbaineann, rinne mo Roinn, idir Rannán na Gaeltachta agus Éire Ildánach, taighde a choimisiúnú faoin ábhar seo in 2018. Is é...

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 thank the Cathaoirleach for the welcome to me and the officials of the Office of Public Works. I am pleased to be before the committee again to present the 2024 Revised Estimate for the Office of Public Works. The gross allocation for 2024 is €645 million, which comprises €140 million for climate-responsive flood risk management and €505 million to be invested in...

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 will take the last point first. As Deputy Durkan will know, the issue of Castletown House has preoccupied me and the Department for quite a long time. I have never attempted to blame anybody for what is going on down there and I do not believe any of our officials would wish to. However, the reality is we sought in good faith to buy the lands adjoining Castletown House that were...