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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work of the water service transition office; the number of staff employed by the office; the duration of its work; the outside consultant costs incurred by the office; the payments given to county managers under the office's remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3730/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Remuneration (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 517. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total lump sum retirement payments given to county managers in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3744/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total duration of a contract (details supplied); the date it ended; and the final cost for the full implementation of this contract. [3750/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 520. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the tasks a company (details supplied) carried out in relation to May 2012 contract. [3751/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria under which a company was selected for the contract (details supplied). [3752/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 522. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific areas of expertise a company provided in the contract (details supplied) that Bord Gáis Éireann-Irish Water was not able to provide in-house. [3753/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an open competition was held prior to the awarding of a contract (details supplied). [3754/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if other companies were afforded the opportunity to bid for a project (details supplied); if a number of quotes from other companies were sought prior to signing this project; the companies that bid for the project and reasons given for their rejection. [3755/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that a contract (details supplied) was issued as part of the unbundling provision of the EU Third Directive, if the costs of this project were paid for by Irish Water or by Bord Gáis Éireann or a subsidiary. [3756/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list in tabular form all the contracts a company (details supplied) have received from Irish Water since May 2012; the value of each contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3757/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (28 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: 530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the new building regulations taking effect on 1 March 2014, the training and resources that have been provided to local authority staff in relation to the new building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3814/14]

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: That is what got it into government for its short stint.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: He could have been in any of three or four parties.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: Or Democratic Left.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: Until one gets into government.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: He certainly opposed them when he was in the Workers Party, Democratic Left and New Agenda.

Order of Business (30 Jan 2014)

Barry Cowen: It is being railroaded through.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Barry Cowen: 82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the money that was provided by the Exchequer for the establishment of Irish Water in 2012, 2013 and in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5255/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Barry Cowen: I think the last three weeks introduced the question better than I ever could.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister for clarifying the amount of funding his Department has provided to Irish Water. He stated on television recently that a figure of €180 million was open to being questioned by an Oireachtas committee, but we now know that is not the case because the money was raised by means of a commercial loan between the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Bord Gáis. A...