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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The point I am making is that the issue along the Border underlines the fact that this is wide open to abuse. This is going on under our noses. These are huge operations involving massive sheds and articulated lorries travelling around the country. Nobody appears to be doing anything significant about it. We have heard for the last number of years that there is a joint approach north and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: My point is that they are not being dealt with at all. Two Senators and two members of the House of Lords walked around parts of south Armagh and were openly shown sites where laundering of diesel is taking place to beat the band, but nothing has happened about it. The agency has responsibility for protecting the environment and ensuring that waste is dealt with properly. The attitude to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The witness is not aware of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: I will return to the sites in question in Northern Ireland where the material is being removed from, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. I believe there are 13, but it is a number of sites. The report identifies that there is going to be an issue with the leachate that will be extracted when this material is repatriated in a country. What is happening about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: However, there is no contract in place to deal with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: When is this expected to be finished?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: How much will the total cost be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does the witness think a mistake was made at the start in that the costings were not more robust?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The cost per tonne collapsed in terms of getting rid of it. Once tenders were sought-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Why was there no tendering process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: What is that down from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Monaghan County Council was charging double what it is now charging to get rid of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Is it not unbelievable that it could reduce its cost base by 50% once the Department started shopping around?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: The availability of landfill space has gone down, so one would imagine that the price would have gone up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: However, the cost associated with maintaining landfills, as well as remediating and staffing them, has not gone down. If anything, it has increased with the increase in regulations. A decision was taken to put this material into a dump in Monaghan without a cost. After the cost was examined, it was decreased by 50%.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Has the Department policies in place to prevent a recurrence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: In his opening statement, Mr. McCarthy referred to the NOAC. How often has it met since being established?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Who is on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does NOAC meet monthly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) Patrick O'Donovan: Does it rely completely on the information sent to it by local authorities' audit committees?