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- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Sinn Féin does not have a problem with the concept of shared services. The example has been given of Laois County Council in respect of payroll and pension services being combined. That certainly makes sense. The concern I have about services and procurement is that other European countries try to keep contracts in small, manageable pieces to escape the binds of e-tendering. I want...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: The Minister indicated yesterday, although he was speaking of something else at the time, that the date for the local elections and European elections would be 23 May. Will the Minister confirm that?
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: It is going for a Friday.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: The big weakness in the rates system at the moment, even with the changes being proposed, is that no cognisance is being taken of ability to pay. There are many small businesses from which people are not even getting a week's wages at the moment. Some sole traders and those employing three or four people are not even getting a half-week's wages for themselves from their businesses....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Keegan and the other officials for coming before the committee. I sought this meeting last year because I am very concerned about the €96.3 million spent, with €4 million recovered from the PPP company. The rest has come from the public purse and on my last glance, there is no evidence of it on the site. The public has not seen any goods. I recognise that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I have heard Mr. Keegan's phrase "We will have regard to what the elected members say" used many times during my term as an elected local authority member. The problem is that the elected members have been hung out to dry and have been left completely exposed to a roasting from the public on this waste of money. The public cannot grasp the reason this amount of public money could be paid...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Was MC O'Sullivan the name of the company involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Is this company the same MC O'Sullivan which put together waste management plans for every region in the State? I saw somewhere that it was a cut-and-paste job. The company was subsequently bought out by RPS group. The midlands waste management plan -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I think they fairly much covered the regions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: The company certainly got the contract for the midlands and some other regions as well. It is clear that the extension of the contract was not put out to tender and the then manager was in effect giving a blank cheque to a company that had built up the expertise at the public expense. That is part of the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Given the vast sums of money involved, to me it looks like a blank cheque
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: What is baffling about the project is that we have expended that figure and there is no product. People who do understand them cannot get their heads around why such an amount of money is being wasted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: The council has a waste licence, planning permission and a vacant site.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I do not doubt that, but the amount of the cost is in question. Since Mr. Keegan took up office, I am sure he has had time to look back over the whole project. Does he think the whole project was ill thought out and fundamentally flawed in choosing incineration at that location? I come in through the south side of the city every morning and I try to get back in the evening or at night....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: With regard to the location and the amount of waste to feed the site, has it ever been part of the plan of Dublin City Council and the company involved to import waste into Poolbeg?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: If the decision to move ahead with the Poolbeg incinerator were happening today and Mr. Keegan were the Dublin city manager, knowing what he knows now, would he back the project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: In the council chamber in Laois, I heard that we needed an incinerator facility in the midlands. They were going to be dotted all over the country. Looking at it now, no one would say they are needed. MC O'Sullivan & Co. told us we needed them. There is a logic to that company telling us we need them. Does Mr. Keegan agree with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: What does Mr. Keegan envisage as the total cost of the project, assuming it goes ahead at the planned scale? He has also talked about the scaled-down version. What is the cost to Dublin City Council and the cost to the public purse? There is a public-private partnership, PPP, involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Keegan said that if this fails the PPP company may try to recover the moneys paid.