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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the grants paid to general practitioners (details supplied) for staff, capital payments, out-of-hours payments, practice manager subsidies and so on in 2014 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of all alternatives which his Department considered in advance of introducing a full producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4317/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 539. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of all consultations that his Department held in advance of the introduction of a full producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4318/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the regulatory impact assessment which was undertaken to assess the impact of introducing a full producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 541. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations to give effects to the full producer responsibility initiative to cover waste tyres; when he expects to introduce them; if a draft will be provided to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4320/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the other organisations, companies or bodies which his Department considered in conjunction with Repak to handle the introduction of the full producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres; if he will provide copies of those proposals from those entities to this Deputy; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the confidentiality and commercial sensitivity of those participating in the producer responsibility initiative for waste tyres will be maintained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4322/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Tyre Disposal (2 Feb 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 544. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the decision was taken to introduce a full producer responsibility initiative for the tyre industry regarding the handling of waste tyres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4323/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: By and large, the public service, Departments and semi-State organisations do a very good job. At this committee - I am only a recent member of it - we get to see the wrong end of public service and public administration. This is the worst element of what I have seen by virtue of the people concerned and their vulnerable nature. What this case brings home to me is the absolute and total...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Also, I asked earlier whether we ever got a report back from the Dublin local authority managers explaining why they refused those houses from the National Asset Management Agency? We just got the numbers and the locations of the houses but it was-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the representatives of the Department. In 2009, when this whole project started, Mr. Griffin's Department estimated that the cost was €18 million over 18 months. In 2013, the cost rose to €31 million, and then, in 2015, it rose to €38 million. Can Mr. Griffin tell me the actual cost of this project to date?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Consider the figures outlined by the Department for the period 2009 to 2013. I presume the 2009 figure was arrived at during the period 2005 to 2010, when this system was being designed. How did the Department get the 2009 estimate so wrong, considering the figure that was actually forecast in 2013? How could the Department's forecast have been so wrong given that it spent the previous...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Surely that should have been known. What was going on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am somewhat lost here. How could the postcode system have been developed, over five years from 2005 to 2010, without the basic information and without having sorted the GeoDirectory issue from the start? How did the Department arrive at an estimated cost without knowing the basic details on the locations of the houses in the country?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: It seems the Department arrived at a cost without having agreed with GeoDirectory as to how much it would require for its database. Is that fair?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: On that point, the Department arrived at a cost without including the public service databases so it went to the Government with a cost for a national postcode system that would have required, as a matter of basic necessity, that level of information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: How could the Department have been developing a postcode system at the time given that it was being changed from a locality-based system to an address-based system in 2012? How could the Department have been developing that kind of project without the databases that were required and, at the same time, arriving at a sum for the Government that was €20 million less than what it was in 2015?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: I ask the question because there was a large differential over the period in question. In the same vein, there have been significant procurement issues with the project since 2006 and procurement rules seem to have gone out the window. I presume Mr. Griffin accepts the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General on procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: There are a number of issues.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Will Mr. Griffin elaborate on the potential conflicts of interest involving people on the project board?