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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (23 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: 159. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 712 of 5 November 2013, if he will outline in detail the number of staff in Irish Water that have been provided with a car; the level of management at which they receive a car; the type of car to which they are entitled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3387/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (23 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: 160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff in Irish Water that have been provided with a credit, debit or charge card; if he will outline the spending limit for each issued card; if he will provide details of the person it was issued to and their responsibilities; the criteria for using these cards; if he will also provide in tabular form for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (23 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: 161. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 713 of 5 November 2013, if he will outline in detail the fringe benefits, other than salary, health insurance or other perks that staff in Irish Water received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3389/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: With the Chair's indulgence, I wish to ask a few more questions. I will be requesting that we invite Mr. John Tierney before the committee to discuss this issue but, rather than bringing Mr. Keegan back, I would prefer to put my questions to him now about issues that are his responsibility. Mr. Tierney should also come before us given that he was the manager in situ.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I will make the proposal at the end of the meeting but first I wish to put a couple of brief questions to Mr. Keegan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I will fly through them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I have three.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Was a period specified on the planning permission? The only work done thus far has been site preparation and construction has not commenced. Normally planning permission lasts for either five or ten years. We were notified today that the €10 million allocated for district heating was a separate project. Can we get a breakdown of that figure and how much was spent on consultancy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose that the committee invite Mr. Tierney to come before it to explain what exactly went on during his time as city manager.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Is the city council not obliged to keep an asset database and would it not be part of the assets of the local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Will Mr. Keegan forward them to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: First, my question on air quality was not answered. Second, approximately €52 million was spent on site acquisition. What is the current value of the site in question? Moreover the Hibernian Molasses site, on which the majority of the money, €31 million, was spent, had four tanks. Why did the city council build a facility with 11 tanks for that company? This appears to me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: There were questions at the oral hearings about sludge and the contracting of the spreading of biofert by the contractor in the south east. Are there plans to burn the sludge and the biofert in the incinerator? Will there be a cost to the incinerator as a result of the thermal output this will generate? I refer to bottom ash and fly ash and different contamination levels. The ash that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I recall questioning Matt Twomey at great length on this at a Dublin City Council meeting. He said the biofert generated from the sludge would never be burned because it is a financial asset to the council as a fertiliser. I accept Mr. O'Sullivan's honesty. That was always my belief but it was part of the propaganda tied to the incinerator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: I accept this is Mr. O'Sullivan's plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: When was the decision made and who made it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: What was the position on governance when the decision was made to spend €10 million to run the project? I believe the real expenditure so far is €106 million, not €96 million, because of that €10 million. There will be some retrofitting to justify it, but it will probably not be exactly what the council wants. Thus far, the expenditure of €10 million has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: The county managers believed it was a decision of the city council. The decision was made internally in the city council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: Overall expenditure for the county is €96 million. For Dublin City Council involves it a €10 million add-on for a district heating project that may not work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Kevin Humphreys: It would be helpful if Mr. Phillips explained at some stage the decision process. As a member of Dublin City Council, I never had sight of approval of the expenditure on the district heating element. I had always presumed it was part of the expenditure on the incinerator. Will Mr. Phillips revert to me on this point?