Results 17,281-17,300 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are tight on time. The Deputy will be able to come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are going to move to the next-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy excuse me for a minute? I will allow her to come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will not. Is Mr. Nolan saying that, as part of land acquisition, this goodwill payment of €5,000 an acre, which was generally the figure paid to farmers to allow early access, is not included in the land acquisition costs in the TII's accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Nolan told us it was paid through the local authority. Does the TII not pay for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, so that goodwill payment is included in the TII's accounts. Of course it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I ask Deputy Connolly to bear with me on this. For some of the projects the TII is the contracting body, not the local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In those situations, would the local authority have been involved in a land acquisition if the TII is the contracting body? The local authorities are the contracting bodies for some motorway projects.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Almost 99% of land acquisition was done through the CPO process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: When Mr. Nolan is looking at the figure, did people whose land was not acquired get any of these goodwill payments? Would the goodwill payment have been part of the overall negotiation of the figure for land acquisition? It included co-operation for early entry, so it was part of the land acquisition.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It would have been based on acreage or whatever.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have had a few motorway projects through my constituency. I understand €5,000 was the ballpark figure for the goodwill payment. Is that reasonable or unreasonable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It is all there. We have to give Mr. Nolan the answer before we ask the question. I am finding that a little frustrating.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay. We understand where we are at. Mr. Nolan will send us on some information on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Especially by project. Let us say it is the Portlaoise bypass. the Nenagh to Limerick bypass or whatever. The TII does these jobs on a project basis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: For some of them I understand the witnesses will have to go back a number of years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: When the TII has no further use for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It must be advertised publicly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: The TII cannot do a sweetheart deal with one landowner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: It has to be advertised publicly.