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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (25 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider maintaining Approved Retirement Fund limits at current levels of income, that is €12,700 income with €63,500 investment, or if he will be proceeding with the proposed increase in limits in March 2016 to an increased level of income of €18,000 and an increased investment of €119,800; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (23 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: 367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the future of Fitzgibbon Street Garda station in Dublin 1; if she will seek to have a preservation order placed on the building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24727/15]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, to the House and welcome the opportunity to speak on the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill. This legislation will make three important changes that should improve our urban environment, increase the supply of much need housing and enhance the quality of life for citizens. These changes are the introduction of a vacant site levy, reduced...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: In regard to the Docklands report, when will the committee receive the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: Are we likely to have it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: It will probably be the autumn before we see it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: We discussed this when Department of Finance officials appeared before the committee a few weeks ago. I extended the discussion from IBRC to NAMA because of the possibility of the linkage there. Given that NAMA was established in 2010 with a ten-year remit, we are now 50% of the way through. As no market existed at the time and NAMA was seeking to bring about a market and therefore...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: Is there within the remit of NAMA a requirement that they break even or make a profit on their impaired assets? When it appeared here before us, its delegation stated that it intended to make a profit of roughly €1 billion. Surely that is the rate of return that they are talking about and so long as they make a profit they have fulfilled the remit for which NAMA was established. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I will come back to it at the next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: Is that our last meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I thank Deputy Fleming for allowing me to speak ahead of him. My question relates to Bord na gCon and the Indecon report and what seems to be a decision by the Department to close down Harold's Cross race track which is a profitable race track, one of the few profitable race tracks out of the total of 17 in the country. The implementation of the Indecon report seems to be very selective....

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: What is Mr. O'Driscoll's thinking on the recommendation made in this respect in the Indecon report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: If the recommendation comes from Bord na gCon that it wishes to dispose of that asset, will it be Mr. O'Driscoll's function to recommend a course of action to the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: When is a decision expected to be made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I thank Mr. O'Driscoll. I told the Chairman that I would be speedy.

Topical Issue Debate: Clerys Closure (17 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the Tánaiste's speedy and comprehensive response in meeting the needs of the workers and thank her for providing them with information to enable them to deal expeditiously with their entitlements. I also welcome her commitment to investigate the reason minimum notice was not provided in accordance with the employment Acts. I would like to see that issue fully investigated,...

Topical Issue Debate: Clerys Closure (17 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I too raise the circumstances surrounding the closure of the most famous store in Ireland and the sacking of 460 employees, 130 of whom were employed directly with the remainder employed by concession holders. I am very concerned at the manner in which this closure took place. A company came in, made a sale to another company which then divided its purchase into two legal entities, with a...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire Stáit agus buíochas a ghabháil leis an gCeann Comhairle as ucht an seans labhairt ar an mBille seo. I welcome this legislation and commend the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, for bringing it to the House. It contains important provisions for the reintroduction of registered employment agreements, REAs, which were struck down...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I again wish to ask about No. 6, the reminder to the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the clarification sought on the information received on the Thornton Hall project.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jun 2015)

Joe Costello: I did and at the meeting before it.