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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that the property mentioned by the Deputy is not in the ownership of the agency. IDA Ireland is aware, however, of the availability of this property but has not had any client requirements for this type of facility. If the owners of the property so wish they can request IDA to include the facility on the agency’s database for marketing. However, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: According to my Department’s records, since the EU Council’s decision in June 2013 to start negotiations with the US on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), 586 representations on TTIP have been received, 566 of which were from private citizens. The remainder were from organisations including trade unions’ representatives, county councils, the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Commissions of Investigation (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 415 to 417, inclusive, together. No Commissions of Investigation have been established under the aegis of my Department.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I thank Deputy Martin for his questions. First, this is clearly a painful legacy of a bank that was not governed by proper regulation over many years. I recall clearly that when money was first put into this bank by the previous Government, we were told it was solvent shortly after it took control. We are now entering the last act of this arrangement and it is important to bear in mind...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I have given the Deputy the assurance he needs in the House. I have given him the assurance of the Minister for Finance and the assurance of the Attorney General, who is the legal adviser to the Government. Any reading of the terms of reference clearly embraces this. It was specifically in response to concerns raised by Deputies that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan,...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Martin may not like legalistic argument that goes into terms of reference, but we have the assurance of the Attorney General that the wording here is absolutely categorical that these cases will be included.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I have never heard of appendices being written by Attorneys General to legal documents adopted by the Dáil and neither has Deputy Martin. That would be a wholly inappropriate approach. We have the terms of reference and the categorical assurance that they will cover the issues of concern raised by Deputies. These are legitimate public interest concerns and it is right that we have an...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I do not accept that the liquidator has been dealing in an opaque way with loans that have disposed of. The legislation governing the liquidator provides that he must get an independent valuation of the loans and the loans must then be disposed of by way of open public tender. He cannot dispose of the loans below the value indicated by the independent evaluation - they have to go to NAMA -...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: The provisions in the legislation governing the liquidator are clear and they are transparent in the way they operate. As for the issue raised by Deputy Adams in respect of the files provided by Deputy Pearse Doherty, these have been reviewed by the Attorney General and she has given the assurances that they will be covered by the commission of investigation.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: Furthermore, these files will be provided to the judge who will be chairing the commission and he will have full access to the files that Deputy Doherty has identified. The terms of reference fully accommodate the issues that have been raised by Deputy Doherty. I can only give Deputy Adams the assurances and I hope he accepts them.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: Money was not frittered away by this Government in respect of Anglo Irish Bank. This Government did not put a single euro into Anglo Irish Bank. All of the money was put in by the previous Government and the actions by this Government and by the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, reduced the cost of the debt of Anglo Irish Bank. Also, the liquidation is actually showing signs that we will...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: Sinn Féin wants to find a reason to vote against this. In so far as the issue of the sale of Siteserv, it was notified to the Competition Authority among many other such mergers on grounds of competition.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Competition Authority made very clear that there were no issues of competition in respect of that sale. I accepted the advice from the Competition Authority and officials at that time. Sinn Féin is scrambling around to find some reason to vote against the terms of reference of an investigation that is clearly going to deal with all of the issues of public concern-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I have seen this in the past but this is a robust inquiry. We have the assurances of the Attorney General and this inquiry will deal with this issue in a timely way so that we can have a report here by the end of the year.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: If the Deputy is unhappy with the response to the freedom of information request, there is an independent Information Commissioner, who will deal with those issues.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: Although I do not have the information that the Deputy seeks available to me here, I can say that the establishment of Irish Water is an important national infrastructure. We have laboured under a system in which 34 different local authorities have operated a water network. We have seen leakages from that water network of up to 50%.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: In this city, the supply system has been on a knife edge, and we saw last year interruptions of supply.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: We are now introducing a system whereby we will have a single utility which will have a revenue stream.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: We need a modern water infrastructure that is fit for purpose, and that is what the Government has been putting in place. There will be multiples of the revenue stream in terms of investment into that infrastructure to provide a system that will be fit for the 21st century. It will be available to support job creation, home ownership and home building.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am afraid the Deputy will have to table a question to the Minister responsible.