Results 7,541-7,560 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis on which a decision was made to locate the proposed new prison at Thornton, County Dublin; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns expressed by local residents at the proposal; the consultation there has been or the consultation he plans to have with local residents; the amount paid for the site of...
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: For a distinguished lawyer, the Minister can display a certain lack of logic from time to time. If the real reason for closing down Mountjoy Prison and acquiring the new greenfield site was to do with in-cell sanitation, which is lacking in the slopping out process, why did the Minister indicate to me in a reply to a question last year that approximately 400 cases were being taken to the...
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: That prison is closed.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: That is because it was deliberately run down.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: It had riding instructions from the Department.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The committee changed them itself.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: Is it correct that the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform changed the criteria in respect of costs and informed the committee that costs would not be a problem and that the committee changed the other criteria? Do I understand that no decision has been made in respect of transferring the Central Mental Hospital to the new site or is the Minister merely indicating that it is not...
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: I will organise a meeting with them.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: I did not inquire about that matter. The Minister should answer my question.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: No, that is not correct. The Minister should just answer my question
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: Did the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform inform the committee that cost was no option?
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister should answer the question.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister is not answering the question, he has gone off on a rant.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister is ranting.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: We will discuss Mountjoy on another occasion.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister should just answer the questions he is asked. We do not have a great deal of time.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister is kicking to touch. He will not answer the question.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: Did the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform row back on the conditions it originally imposed and state that cost was no object?
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: The Minister is not answering the questions. That is typical of him. He is merely ranting.
- Prison Building Programme. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Costello: At least we impart facts, not fiction.