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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I, too, acknowledge the work. It is good to hear that we are on target for planning towards the end of the year. This will be absolutely essential. I am conscious of that as we come into the autumn and winter months. We all know about the winters the families and community around Lough Funshinagh have faced, particularly last winter. It was devastating. There will be a lot of work to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I appreciate everything the Deputy said. She is on the ground and knows exactly what she is talking about. She knows more than those of us who are in government. The pressure came from the Taoiseach to the Tánaiste right down to every Minister who had a role in this. As I said, delivering the scheme is important. I do not know if the Deputy had time to go and visit, but the day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: Deputy Lahart is not here to take Question No. 6. Question No. 7 is in the names of Deputies O'Connor and McCarthy. I will let Deputy McCarthy go ahead whenever he is ready.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Flood Relief Schemes

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

James O'Connor: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood schemes for Rathcormac, Midleton, Castlemartyr, Mogeely and Killeagh and any others in Cork East that his Department is considering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40173/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

James O'Connor: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will consider a new retrospective scheme for residents of Midleton who wish to purchase higher barriers to protect their premises from any flooding that may occur in the future, considering that parts of Midleton town were under four feet and more of water during Storm Babet; if his Department is aware of any delays...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Noel McCarthy: Will the Minister provide an update on flood protection measures currently being undertaken at Rathcormac, Mogeely, Killeagh, Castlemartyr and Midleton in east Cork?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister for that initial overview. It will not surprise him that I raise this, but one of the big things is the capital spend on infrastructure. Storm Éowyn put into sharp focus the creaking infrastructure we have across the west of Ireland, in particular. That is obviously an area I would like to see huge progress in. I am aware the Minister knows the west of Ireland...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: The overall process on the national development plan is continuing. We have approximately €20 billion to allocate across critical areas in our economy. We know with the Department of housing that continued investment in public infrastructure for housing is central to this process. We have set out the priority areas of housing, energy, transport and water infrastructure in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I look forward to seeing how that unfolds. It is incredibly important. It is interesting that on both the budgetary oversight and finance committees we have been dealing with the issue of tariffs. One of the big things is how we can protect ourselves. What may or may not happen nobody can predict. One of the longer term things is the investment in capital infrastructure, so we can build...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I share that objective. That is why giving that additional scope to Ministers across their respective policy areas to invest in critical infrastructure is essential as part of the national development plan. We are at a point of significant economic uncertainty and this Government is clearly setting out that we want to seriously increase our overall investment in critical infrastructure,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Question No. 2 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: Deputy Paul Murphy is not here, so it is Deputy Farrell's lucky day. She has two in a row. You are up again.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat. Sometimes you are waiting a few minutes in between questions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Protected Disclosures

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department’s submission to the EU review of the protected disclosures regime will refer to the views of whistleblowers from the Farrelly commission and Children's Health Ireland (children’s hip surgeries) about the reprisals they faced. [39487/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister might be aware that I have a particular interest in the issue of protected disclosures and protecting whistleblowers. I worked well with the previous Minister, Michael McGrath, in regard to the EU directive. I put forward my own legislation on this. There is obviously now going to be the review of that. There is the EU review of the protected disclosures regime, and I am...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputy for this question. On 3 July 2024 the European Commission presented a report on the transposition of the EU Whistleblower Directive 2019/1937. This report stated that a review of the directive, which is referred to in Article 27(3), would be finalised no later than 2026. This review or evaluation will assess the functioning of the directive and consider the need for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: When the Government was transposing the EU directive on protected disclosures, I was clear at the time and I voiced significant concerns. I felt it was perhaps deliberately going to weaken the transposition. I said I felt the setting up of the protected disclosures office was a retrograde step and that it removed a protected disclosure as a political issue. Previously, an Opposition TD...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Everybody should be protected, particularly when they raise wrongdoing with public bodies. I think we all share that objective across the House. We have two areas of legislation between 2014 and 2022, some of which was the transposition of EU legislation and also policy direction in an Irish context. We have different points now in the context of the European review, which is happening,...