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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: This has nothing to do with the Poolbeg incinerator.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: This is about the record of the person who is running Irish Water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: In the Revised Estimates and the money the Minister will spend on Irish Water, does he think he will get good value given that it is being run by a man called John Tierney who in the past has been described as weak on financial management? In a project he was involved in there needed to be evidence of much more comprehensive oversight in monitoring and controlling expenditure. Can the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: There seems to have been hundreds of millions of euro spent on rent allowance at a time when the Government could refurbish some of the houses with some of the money involved. Local authorities apparently have no money to refurbish their houses. The Government could also buy houses, but there is a problem with that, and the Minister knows it. If the Government were to provide these people...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised)
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I wish to address the targets set in the Estimates. The target for 2013 was to end turf cutting on raised bogs. That target was missed on what the Minister terms SSE raised bogs and what I call "so-called SSEs". For how much longer will he continue to kid himself, given that there are 9,000 turbary rights land owners on the 53 so-called SSEs and that after 18 years of coercion or trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the way a convicted fraudster, who dodged long-standing creditors in another jurisdiction, received regulatory approval as a licensed lender from the Central Bank of Ireland when a key requirement is that firms must be of the highest financial and personal probity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2370/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the establishment of an inquiry within the Central Bank of Ireland to establish the facts as to how a retail credit licence was granted to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2392/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will call for a full investigation by the relevant authorities into the activities of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2507/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that all the required application forms and required details were supplied to the Central Bank by a person (details supplied) at the time an application was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2509/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Companies Law Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance due to the reported value of debts in a company's accounts, if he will call for a full investigation by the Revenue Commissioners into the accounts of companies (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2511/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (15 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 445. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that no petroleum prospecting licence were granted to companies (details supplied) if he will confirm that he was indemnified by these companies for all actions they undertook while they held the options licence when prospecting in the Leitrim area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Calculations (15 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the commercial rateable valuation by county and the amount of paid parking income by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1674/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (15 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of all of the resources, salaries, vehicles, fuel, ancillary costs of An Garda Síochána used specifically and exclusively in the effort to prevent, counter and fight the importation and sale of illegal cigarettes for the year 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1687/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: Mr. Cowhig noted that if a local authority is unable to provide people with decent quality water, Irish Water will move away from it. What will it do in practice? Prior to pressing the nuclear button, how will it ensure that local authorities provide good quality water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: If the nation uses less water, the overall charge will increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: We are trying to get an answer to the question on what local authorities-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: Members attended this meeting to find out whether we are getting good value for money. In a nutshell, Deputy Boyd Barrett put it very well in that, ultimately, it is a question of whether members agree with Mr. Tierney when he tells them he got good value for money. Other than that, if they do not agree with him, it is tough luck. I agree with that and on that basis, members must consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I have one final question. How does Irish Water enforce that? To give a practical example, let us say that Roscommon County Council does not live up to standards and, consequently, Irish Water takes the contract away from it. With respect, to whom in Roscommon will Irish Water give it? To Lidl? How can Irish Water enforce that? How can Irish Water change the current position in which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: Were the two systems costed against each other?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: If I was going to build a hotel in the morning in Roscommon, how could the delegates guarantee, under this new model, that I would be able to drink the water in that hotel?