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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: I will finish on this point. Was Mr. Crawley aware that this issue had been raised prior to January 2015 in this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Yes, and concerns were expressed about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: There were specific concerns raised about it in this committee before the contracts were signed. I am not sure if it was raised prior to that because I was not a member of the committee at the time. However, concerns would have been expressed about the failure to provide the proper tendering process, the lack of public knowledge about what was going on and the fact that there was a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Was the agreement sacrosanct at that stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: It was tied down?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: What did Mr. Crawley do in January 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General have any final remark?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Even though they had no lease.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Had the lease changed? Mr. Crawley said it was under a licence. Was there a short term lease initially or was there a change in the circumstances?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Did Mr. Crawley say it was a licence rather than a lease?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: When and why did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Can we get some further-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: That is one of the assets of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority that is going to be transferred to Dublin City Council. Are there many other assets that will be transferred? If so, what is the value of these?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: We are awaiting the dissolution Bill, and perhaps Mr. Clegg will provide an indication as to when he believes this will come on stream. The authority was originally established as the Custom House Docks Development Authority in 1986 and it because the Dublin Docklands Development Authority in 1997. It has been in existence for well over a quarter of a century and its activities have left a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: I acknowledge Mr. Clegg's commitment to all this, but we had all this for 25 years, virtually. We had the local employment charter, which the docklands authority ran a coach and four through. The developers brought in people from outside, who rented houses in the area, and pretended it was local employment. The local employment services were in operation for the last 20 years as well and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: That would be great. I do not know whether Mr. Dunne knows how far the dissolution Bill has gone at this stage, but perhaps that legislation could incorporate not just the dissolution of the old docklands authority but also a positive statement of structures required going forward.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: An implementation structure will be required.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: To what extent the Department is open to what we were just suggesting, that there would be structures in place that would be clearly able to deliver what we are looking to deliver? The existing structures certainly did not do it. They failed dismally. Even though we are at an advanced stage, is there still scope within the Bill to look at this particular area, so that we can get some real...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015) Joe Costello: I thought that might be fleshed out further with Dublin City Council.