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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (2 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...air travel. Irish participants of the programme are encouraged to prioritise green travel as their first choice when planning the trip by taking short (non-connecting) flights or ferries to the UK or mainland Europe and continuing their journey by land. Given we are an island nation maintaining and developing meaningful connections to our continental European partners is essential to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ..., maintain and manage it in order to reduce costs to the Exchequer. In line with the above policy, the OPW has provided a list of its surplus vacant properties, including former Garda station properties, to the Land Development Agency, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and the relevant Local...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: It has long been the policy of the OPW to seek to reunite the historic demesne lands of Castletown Estate. The Commissioners of Public Works acquired Castletown House and 13 acres of land in 1994. In 1997, one hundred acres south of the house was acquired. The farmyard adjacent to the house was acquired in 2001. In 2006, lands associated with the Batty Langley Lodge were acquired with former...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Detention Centres (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: The former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum is in the process of being transferred to the Land Development Agency who will develop the site as a strategic housing scheme. In the interim, part of the property has been licensed to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on a temporary basis for tented accommodation for IPAS applicants. There are no plans...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (20 Mar 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: As it stands, the official vehicular access to Castletown House, through the Celbridge gate, was acquired by the State in 1994 along with 13 acres of land. I have already stated, on many occasions, the Lime Avenue is not for general visitor traffic to Castletown House. General visitor traffic in this context refers to vehicular traffic generated by the general public seeking to visit...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...The OPW keeps all properties within its portfolio under review considering future accommodation requirements of our client base, and broader government policy. Although this site was previously noted by the Land Development Agency as having long term potential as a redevelopment site for residential, there are currently no active plans to relocate existing activities from the site.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (20 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 228 to 233, inclusive, together. The OPW remains open to negotiations with the new landowners on the subject of securing vehicular access and parking facilities for the public and the staff of the OPW across the subject lands whether through a purchase, a lease or by way of a licence. However, the OPW does not consider that the appointment of a new...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...in order to ensure the integrity of the heritage site. The official vehicular access, through the Celbridge Gate, to Castletown House was acquired by the State in 1994 along with 13 acres of land.

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: ...of €165 billion under the NDP from 2021 to 2030, the OPW has seen a 3.6% increase in its capital allocation. This funding will contribute towards the ambitious plan for a greener, more efficient, connected Ireland, part of our climate goal to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. As the OPW funding allocations, projects and scope of work continue to expand, the two main strategic...

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: ...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 originally part of the Castletown estate. As I have said before here, in the Dáil and in meetings with the residents' groups and the various local...

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: Give me a chance to finish. That does not mean that we are adverse to finding a solution that involves the M4. However, we do not own that land. We have to have respect for the people who own the land adjacent to us. It also does not mean that we discontinue any sort of dialogue with our neighbours. We are not going to do that either. It is in our interest to restore the lands in their...

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: ...Galway, will go to auction; and Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, in the Chairman's constituency, will transfer to Kilkenny County Council. There will also be some miscellaneous transactions involving land. They include the former Garda station site in Scotstown, County Monaghan, which will transfer to the local authority, and Rosslare Harbour, Wexford, which is under consideration at this...

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: Without landing the organisation in it, the answer is "Yes". We are open to everything. We have Reginald's Tower-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Agriculture Industry (25 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alleviate the situation for active farmers whose land is being subjected to residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (18 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: The OPW remains committed to acquiring the additional lands that formed part of the original estate, where they become available, in order to reunite the historic demesne. The State tried to acquire these lands in 2022 and were outbid by the current landowner. The OPW has had commercial negotiations with the landowners over the past nine months. These discussions have included the purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ..., maintain and manage it in order to reduce costs to the Exchequer. In line with the above policy, the OPW has provided a list of its surplus vacant properties, including former Garda station properties, to the Land Development Agency, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and the relevant Local...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I understand from Údarás na Gaeltachta that the organisation is currently developing a strategy in relation to housing, which includes a full review of its land portfolio. An tÚdarás is keen to contribute to the success of Housing for Alland an outline plan and approach for housing solutions using the organisation's lands is being developed, accordingly. This plan is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Housing has been discussed a number of times with a view to contributing to the Government's housing plan, Housing for All, and an outline strategy for housing solutions using Údarás na Gaeltachta-owned lands has been developed. I understand that an tÚdarás has prepared an approach which is to be presented to its board at its next meeting in December.