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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Is there one former county manager for Sligo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: From another county?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Okay. On payments for contracts, when one hires consultants, there is a system of payment, whether electronic, cheque, draft or whatever. When Uisce Éireann has made payments to consultants to date, has it made payments to any third party on behalf of a consultant or to the bank account of a third party outside of this jurisdiction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Tierney has not spoken about that budget to either the Minister, Deputy Hogan, or the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: One main justification for setting up Uisce Éireann is that it will save money. In recent days, the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has stated it will save €2 billion over a seven-year period. If one takes it that at present, it costs €1.2 billion to run the service across the Twenty-six Counties, one is looking at a cost of €8.4 billion over a seven-year period....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I am not asking whether Irish Water was in compliance with EU regulations in this regard. I am asking whether the project was put out to open, competitive tendering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Okay. There has been some media reportage regarding the appointment of staff and senior executives at Uisce Éireann, but we have had very little information on that issue today. There are individuals now working for the company in senior positions who were directly involved in the Poolbeg incinerator project. Mr. Tierney was Dublin city manager at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Given the history of the Poolbeg incinerator project and the fact that €95 million has been spent, or wasted, on it to date, is Mr. Tierney satisfied to have staff who were engaged in that project now in senior positions within the company? Is he prepared to stand over this? Can he confirm that these staff were recruited in a proper manner? Will he outline briefly the recruitment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I will come back to the issue in February. The Irish Water consultation group report of September 2012 pointed out that the existing systems within Bord Gáis had a significant amount of operational capacity, with potential for their being grafted onto Uisce Éireann. Were the delegates aware at that point, having seen that report, of the scale of external contract assistance that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: Was Mr. Tierney aware of the scale of external assistance that would be required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: In other words, the management team foresaw the scale of the external services that would be required. On the cost of establishing Uisce Éireann, there is a fascination for me because I asked the question several times in the Dáil directly of Ministers but never received any type of clear answer which did not refer to the CER and go off on various other tangents in order to use up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the fact that the management team from Uisce Éireann is appearing before us today. Like Deputy Cowen, I have been drawing a blank with my questions on this major project during the past two years. I do not agree with the political decision to set it up but, nevertheless, we are where we are. On the recruitment process for outside consultants, was the Minister, Deputy Hogan,...
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Did the troika telephone you?
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: That is not true.
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: They are not happy.
- Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: It is the same water that is coming out people's taps in Roscommon-----
- Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: -----and many other counties.
- Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I am absolutely disgusted, and I am being left with a poor view of the House as I leave for the Christmas break. I am very disappointed that the Minister of State, who I know is a fair-minded person, is party to this. We have been given three hours and 45 minutes to debate this Bill, which is an absolute bloody disgrace. It is the most significant legislation to come before the Dáil...
- Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: We will not have time. It is a farce.
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Like the previous speaker, I commend Deputy Catherine Murphy on her introduction of this Bill. It is interesting that the Bill has come from an Independent Member of the Opposition. The issue of planning affects all aspects of our lives, how and where we live, where we socialise and how we travel. This Bill attempts to address some of the damage done by previous Government policies and by...