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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Does Mr. Walsh believe what he was doing was misrepresented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Is there not still a conflict of interest in that NewERA is responsible for the disposal of all State assets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Despite the fact that Mr. Walsh stepped out, he is still chairman of the NTMA. Within it there is an entity called NewERA which is responsible for the disposal of all State assets, including the 25% shareholding in Aer Lingus. Is there still compatibility?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: That is fine. The delegates are due to attend in March anyway.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: I will comment on that. We have had a fairly thorough response from Mr. Waters on the new prison project proposed for Thornton Hall. Clearly, a very large amount of money - over €50 million - was spent on the project, which never went ahead. The reason for the project in the first place was that the Department had come to the conclusion that it could not provide in-cell...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: It has been clearly pointed out that, irrespective of the basis for the initiative, it was not progressed effectively to any stage over a ten-year period. All that was provided was road access, resulting in extra expenditure. The total expenditure is probably a lot more than €50 million. It is incredible, bearing in mind the purpose for which the site was purchased in the first...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: The Chairman does it pretty well. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General for his views.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: In the meantime, would it not be possible for the committee to write back to Mr. Waters to point out the contradictions in the activities that the Department has engaged in, and the total lack of justification for the expenditure of taxpayers' money?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: At the end of the report there is an indication that they will be producing a report in the summer, so presumably they are doing some research or background examination on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Good.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: We can herd them in the room together.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: It would be use of the €200,000 per acre.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: I support what Deputy McDonald has proposed. It is a major scandal that over €3 billion in the accounts of over 350 Irish citizens would be in a bank of this nature, which is very questionable in the manner in which it operates. A similar situation has transpired in Britain, where over 1,000 British citizens were in the same situation. HM Revenue and Customs have collected...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: I compliment both organisations on their record results in 2014. They made a huge contribution to the overall well-being of the State in recent years when we were in deep recession. If it were not for the activities of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, with regard to exports and bringing in new companies and investments it would have been far more difficult for us to have survived an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: With proper co-location one person could be in an office where other services are provided by the IDA, the ESB or Fáilte Ireland, so that Enterprise Ireland would not have to establish an office per se.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: It is always very valuable to have a presence on the ground, rather than, for example, servicing Africa from Madrid or Turkey from Italy. In such cases one is not on the ground to actually know what is going on in a real fashion. Perhaps opportunities have been lost which could have been dealt with if there had been a full sharing of facilities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
IDA Ireland - Financial Statement 2013
Enterprise Ireland - Financial Statement 2013 (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Would the IDA reply to that question also?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: 449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres being developed in the Dublin Central constituency; the progress made to date on constructing each primary care centre; when each centre is due to open to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5911/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: I was not aware that the issues that we discussed with that particular lady had taken a turn for the worse. The note that NAMA presents to us indicates that it has been successful in 160 of the 162 completed cases and that a number were mediation cases in which the success rate was equally high. Perhaps we need an in-depth presentation on the nature of the mediation, for example, whether it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)

Joe Costello: Yes, especially the correspondence on the sale of Shelbourne Park. Can I take it that-----