Results 21-40 of 379 for cork speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: With regard to the Office of Public Works’ upcoming project to refurbish Coachford Garda Station at Knockaneowen, Coachford, County Cork, I confirm that the procurement process is complete. In January 2024, the Project Oversight Group in OPW confirmed approval to proceed to Contract Award stage, and to accept the recommended tender. It is planned to place the contract in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (8 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ..., social and environmental criteria of the scheme, including a cost-benefit ratio and the availability of funding for flood risk management. Full details of this scheme are available on: . In July 2018, Cork County Council submitted an application under this scheme for river cleaning works upstream and downstream of Castlemartyr Bridge that did not meet the criteria for the scheme....

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

Patrick O'Donovan: ...by county on the level of supported jobs in Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies for the years 2019 and 2023: Gaeltacht County Donegal Mayo Galway Meath Kerry Cork Waterford Total Employment in 2023 2,740 971 3,617 238 938 758 264...

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...

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: ...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. We anticipate that the 2024 allocation will enable OPW to reach a series of important milestones. This includes continuing the construction of three major flood relief schemes, namely, in Glashaboy in Cork, the Morell River in Kildare, and Whitechurch. We are commencing construction on up to five major other schemes. These are...

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 no problem with that. There is a constable of the Office of Public Works standing there. It is maintained and the vehicle points are kept to an absolute minimum. It is the same at Doneraile in County Cork. It is our stated ambition to reach a point at which Castletown estate is in State ownership, and I think everyone would like to see that. However, we are not the authors of our...

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: ...sources of flooding. We are now designing defences to protect against a once-in-100-years event, where there is flooding in Midleton from four sources. I do not know if the Deputy has met members of Cork County Council to discuss this matter himself.

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: Members of Cork County Council would tell the Deputy, if he met them, that there is flooding from four sources. It is unique. There is flooding from an underground source, like a turlough, flooding from the tide, flooding from the rain and flooding from insufficient capacity in the river. It is a totally different comparison now, with a €50 million scheme in 2024. That is the stage...

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: ...raised by Deputy Durkan, I have purposely stated, at this committee and in replies to parliamentary questions from other Deputies, that I am not going to put a timeline on it. We are working with Cork County Council to get the planning process finished as soon as possible and thereafter to appoint contractors for the construction. As for giving a notional date for completion today, I am...

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 people in Midleton want to hear the facts rather than the politicisation of the issue, which is unfortunately what is happening here. I know that part of Cork very well and have a lot of family connections there. The people there want to know that there is a commitment in terms of finance, which there is. They also want to know that the scheme that is proposed to be developed will...

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: ...deduce the charge based on what I said. He has decided to politicise this issue for the benefit of his local election candidate. The best of luck to them. Most of the TDs and councillors in Cork East have decided not to play politics with this. Most of them are more concerned with making sure we get to a situation where planning permission is applied for and it comes through, as is 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: If the Deputy had met with people in Cork County Council, he would know they are currently working up a series of proposals with the Office of Public Works, like we do in most towns, such as Bantry, where there is a large flood relief scheme that will take a long time to deliver. The council is working with the consulting engineers and our engineers on interim measures, which might include...

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: Cork County Council is the lead authority on this and it is working up a proposal for the Office of Public Works. I understand it will be with us within weeks. Once it is done, we certainly will respond to it on the basis of interim measures.

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: ...; 42 units in Rathdowney, County Laois, which is an LDA site; and 64 units in Clonminch, County Offaly. We are now into the second phase of delivery. These projects include Charleville, County Cork, which is under construction; Ballinasloe, County Galway, where 64 units are due to go to construction shortly; and Backweston, which is near Deputy Durkan's area but located in County Dublin,...

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: ...; Malin, Donegal, will transfer; Broadford, County Clare, will go to auction; Ballyforan, County Roscommon, will go to auction; the former Coast Guard cottages and station in Crosshaven, County Cork, will transfer; Blackrock Road in Cork city will transfer; the former Garda Station and residence in Ballygurteen, County Cork, will transfer; Greencastle, County Donegal, is to be sold by...

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: ...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 OPW site in Thurles, completed on 23 August; in Sligo-----

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: ...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 money because it had permission. We are...