A FLOOD OF TASKS MINISTER OF STATE PATRICK O’DONOVAN TD HAS BEEN AT THE HELM OF THE OPW FOR OVER A YEAR AND IS EAGER TO TACKLE THE LONG LIST OF JOBS THE OFFICE HAS TO DEAL WITH.
P
atrick O’Donovan TD was
two main projects the organisation is focused
the pace that we’re delivering at is worrying …
elected in the Limerick
on are flood risk management and coastal
if we continue to try to deliver at the pace we’re
County constituency in 2011
erosion. Before taking on the role, he did not
delivering at, based on the framework that we
and has been Minister of State for the Office of
think that flood risk in Ireland was a major
are being told we have to deliver within, it is
Public Works (OPW) since 2020. He says the
problem, but now he says: “It is very bad and
frustratingly slow”.
INTERVIEW Colm Quinn Journalist and Sub-Editor, Think Media
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