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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: What has been outlined by the Department of Education and Skills demonstrates that it has a reasonably thorough monitoring process in place. It has taken various steps to deal with the issue by requiring a tax clearance certificate, declarations of compliance and having an online complaints system, etc. What we need is information on the outputs of that process. However, we need to do the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include the case of a person (details supplied) in the inquiry into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36160/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the contingency plans in place in the event of a company (details supplied) being found to be in breach of health and safety legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36159/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (25 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of enforcement officers that have been appointed to control the taxi industry; the number of taxi drivers who have been stopped and had their credentials checked; the number and category of irregularities identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36161/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate and I agree entirely with the previous speakers. Deputy Wallace stated a great surplus of more than 300,000 houses was built in the wrong place and as a result the construction industry collapsed and, as Deputy Wallace well knows, most of the developers went into debt and into NAMA. This was the situation the Labour Party...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: This would move towards ghettoisation. At present those who are homeless and in a needy situation end up in hotels and bedsits. This has gone on for decades and it remains the situation. One can imagine what a prefab would be like, with shivering in the winter and sweating in the summer and the toilet conditions. It is certainly not the way to go. Much of what is being asked for in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (23 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details regarding contractors' services to Leinster House. [35621/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: I am sure NAMA will come back with the riposte that its function is a commercial one and that it has to engage and get the best deal possible for the State. It has indicated publicly that it is well ahead of schedule in the work with which it was entrusted and that it expects to complete its work before the end of the ten-year period under the legislation, but I am more interested in what it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: I support what has been said. I wish to ask about education. Deputy McDonald is correct that the Department of Education and Science spent approximately €2 billion and there are a large number of contracts in that respect, but there are obviously other Departments as well where there are similar tenders and procurement. The PPP sector had its heyday in the past and there were many...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: The figure in the public arena was between €50 million and €55 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: Are we precluded from becoming involved?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: It is the policy issue which has brought it into the arena of industrial dispute. I do not consider that a major issue. Neither is the court case a major issue as that will be dealt with without the committee being part and parcel of the court's determinations or considerations. However, if there is a difficulty with the local authorities involved-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: The Poolbeg incinerator comes within the remit of the local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: Could we examine it in the context of the Poolbeg incinerator, which is part of our work programme? It is also within the remit of the local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: Can I come back to it at some stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: I am not clear about the reference to it here. Is there an indication that we are looking here at the original proposals for the national paediatric hospital which incurred considerable expenditure prior to the relocation decision? Is that the area we are looking at?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: Instead of €40 million, the figure in the public arena was more in the region of €50 million to €55 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: I wrote that letter in the context of the very bitter industrial dispute ongoing between Greyhound and the approximately 80 SIPTU employees. It has been the focus of media attention so it is well known. This matter is both an industrial dispute and also a matter to do with the national strategy on waste management, recovery and recycling. It relates to the issue of the Poolbeg incinerator...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: He has already given evidence.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (17 Sep 2014)

Joe Costello: 395. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will give a report on the lockout of workers by Greyhound recycling; the steps that are being taken to resolve the dispute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33832/14]