Results 981-1,000 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: We are awaiting the dissolution Bill, and perhaps Mr. Clegg will provide an indication as to when he believes this will come on stream. The authority was originally established as the Custom House Docks Development Authority in 1986 and it because the Dublin Docklands Development Authority in 1997. It has been in existence for well over a quarter of a century and its activities have left a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I acknowledge Mr. Clegg's commitment to all this, but we had all this for 25 years, virtually. We had the local employment charter, which the docklands authority ran a coach and four through. The developers brought in people from outside, who rented houses in the area, and pretended it was local employment. The local employment services were in operation for the last 20 years as well and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: That would be great. I do not know whether Mr. Dunne knows how far the dissolution Bill has gone at this stage, but perhaps that legislation could incorporate not just the dissolution of the old docklands authority but also a positive statement of structures required going forward.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: An implementation structure will be required.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: To what extent the Department is open to what we were just suggesting, that there would be structures in place that would be clearly able to deliver what we are looking to deliver? The existing structures certainly did not do it. They failed dismally. Even though we are at an advanced stage, is there still scope within the Bill to look at this particular area, so that we can get some real...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I thought that might be fleshed out further with Dublin City Council.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I might try and be a little helpful here. We are talking about the docklands and there is no visitor centre as such in the docklands. The docklands has enormous heritage and history. There is a very fine group of people who are mainly ex-dockers and others who are interested in heritage and history that set up a group a couple of years ago. They have looked at how they might preserve the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Annual Report and Financial Statements (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: There might be difficulty with having it as a stand-alone unit as a visitor centre. In the broader context, it could prove to be a sustainable development.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to commence talks with the public sector unions with a view to addressing the cutbacks imposed during the troika years; if these talks will also address the specific reductions in the salaries and allowances of new entrants into the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12403/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing voids in Dublin City Council; the number back into use by the council in 2014 and in 2015 to date; the average length of time for repairs to be carried out; the amount of money drawn down by the council from his Department to bring voids into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12373/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to provide certainty and security in the residential rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12379/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will re-establish the inner city partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12380/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the budget for community groups in Dublin’s inner city has fallen in 2015 by 38% for the period April to December 2014; the steps he will take to address this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12381/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he plans to spend €75,000 per unit to refurbish 70 temporary units of accommodation in O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin 7, when the O’Devaney Gardens site has been proposed over the past ten years for a major programme of regeneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12382/15]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, to the House and acknowledge the work of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, in introducing this important legislation. The extreme weather events that have hit Ireland in recent years and which battered our coastline last year and the year...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (24 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and am delighted he has indicated he is pressurising both sides to come together in so far as he can, to attend the Labour Court and resolve their difficulties and the gap between them as quickly as possible and in a fair manner. The message that should be coming tonight is that there is excellent industrial relations machinery here that can...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (24 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: I compliment the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, on the good work he has been doing in this general area over a period of time. The particular issue I am addressing is a serious one. A date for strike action has been agreed for 2 April by Mandate after every effort was exhausted to try to bring Dunnes Stores to the table to negotiate and use the industrial relations machinery. I request...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding available through her Department for funeral services to families in need. [11465/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (24 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: 655. To ask the Minister for Health if all periods of health insurance cover are included when determining lifetime community rating loadings and, in view of the high number of returning emigrants, if periods of health insurance in other jurisdictions can be counted towards lifetime community rating loadings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11726/15]