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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board (12 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the way many properties are registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; if he will provide a breakdown of those numbers by county; the way many properties which are currently rented are not registered with the PRTB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12415/14]

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Government's priorities for 2014. The attitude adopted to this debate in recent weeks by the Opposition shows that it has not learned any lessons from the past. Before I arrived in this House - at a time when the country had more money than sense - announcements relating to Government priorities were made in hotel function rooms rather than in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I agree with everything said so far on this. With regard to missing information and the submission we received from Rehab on the coffin venture with Complete Eco Solutions, this week the committee received anonymous correspondence on an invoice from Complete Eco Solutions. The numbers simply do not tally. In her letter Ms Kerins stated there was a one-off purchase in 2010 of two containers...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: That is fine but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: There is an invoice for 528 coffins and Rehab was asked to pay one third upfront. What happened to the rest of the coffins? Ms Kerins is trying to state Rehab only bought two containers as a one off but there is more than double this on the invoice. If we are corresponding with Rehab we might send it this invoice and it might provide an explanation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: We wrote to Mr. Goulding because we were seeking the documentation which he believed would be of assistance to the committee and to which he had referred on a radio programme a number of months ago. The Chairman will recall that when the then board of the CRC and the HSE came before us, there were a number of missing pieces of correspondence, in particular the minutes of the remuneration...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Purcell and his team for being here today. Obviously, we are talking about the casino in the meaning of Italian word as opposed to a place one would go to gamble, but it seems the Department might have been better taking the €3.3 million and going to a casino with it because, as the Comptroller and Auditor General's report has clearly stated, €3.3 million was spent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: Who were the members of the project board?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I would like to examine the costs of the project. The developer was McNamara. The construction costs amounted to €1,061,878.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: The construction costs were €1,061,878.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: To whom was that paid?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: The next category is professional services, totalling €425,413. To what does that relate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I ask Mr. Purcell to name them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: The previous category of consultancy is similar.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: The council's professional staff costs amounted to €120,865. Is that more of the same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: The cost for site investigation amounted to €36,682.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: Miscellaneous costs amounted to €81,000. Can Mr. Purcell give an overview of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Purcell. These were the costs when the Department was planning to proceed with the project. Additional costs would have been incurred in securing the site. The cost for security amounted to €303,779. The word "consultancy" appears again in this category at a cost of €123,364.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: What was their role at that stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: Demolition costs were €52,062. There are also costs for other professional services amounting to €41,000, plant hire amounting to €13,000 and miscellaneous costs amounting to €15,000. All I can take from the information provided is that architects did very well out of this project. Perhaps Mr. Purcell can provide a breakdown of the two sets of miscellaneous costs.