Results 1,081-1,100 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: Yes. According to the extra note at the back, the board is disposing of 1.5 acres at Shelbourne Park.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: Having disposed of them, are the grounds still available? As the letter puts it, Shelbourne Park is now the flagship of greyhound racing in Europe and attracts in excess of 2,500 patrons each Saturday night. Greyhound racing will continue-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: -----despite the suggestion that further houses may be constructed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: I think the Chairman might have missed out on one or two items of correspondence. No. 3B.4, for example, relates to the 2002 indemnity agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: I wanted to raise the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: Certainly, of course. It is 100% withdrawn. The Chair would never miss anything - neither an opportunity nor an item of correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: I want to refer briefly to this matter because today's edition of The Irish Timescontains quite an amount of information and freedom of information material which indicates that approximately €300 million is still outstanding in relation to the indemnification that was agreed in 2002 by the various religious orders. The reason that is given for this is the fluctuation in market...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: I refer to a financial statement made by the Comptroller and Auditor General when he is presenting an account or a report to us in relation to the indemnification that was promised by the religious institutions in terms of the redress legislation. The religious orders are referring to the fluctuation in the property market as an excuse for their apparent failure to provide to the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: So a legal contract is a legal contract and market fluctuation does not affect it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: I thank the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: In regard to the DDDA report, if we get a written report at this point in time, can we make specific reference to the procedure for the disposal of properties that the DDDA is exercising at present?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: Did the Chairman not indicate that we would get a written report first?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Joe Costello: Would that be included as part of the specific request?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: I have a few quick questions. In regard to the sites, I did not see in the documentation the extent of the land bank of Dublin City Council. Does the Secretary General have any figures on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: Will the putting together of that broad picture include the sites that NAMA has available to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: I spoke earlier about the possibility of public private partnerships. We have had a sad record of public private partnerships in Dublin City Council, including a 16-acre site in O'Devaney Gardens, a site in Dominick Street, a site in Seán MacDermott Street and Croke Villas. The entire major housing development envisaged over the past ten years was to done through public private...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: That is the only one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: Perhaps too many of them were put in the one basket.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: The fallout from this is that so much engagement was made by the community on the public side but the entire failure came from the private side. The community was engaged with the local authority in planning, meetings and so on for years upon years. All of that was delivered, but nothing was delivered by the private sector. A closer scrutiny of any public private partnership would be very...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Joe Costello: NAMA has an economic remit-----