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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I fully support any measure that assists in freeing up development land, the building of houses and particularly reducing the cost of construction. Over the past decade a number of Bills have been introduced to try to assist in this. Some have worked to a degree and many have not. I do not know if this legislation will work. I would like to think it will. There are three aspects to...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I have a quick point of order to put to the Minister of State. I ask him to consider dealing with the Irish Water connection charges to individual houses in the legislation.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: They are related matters.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: Am I the last speaker?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: I will try to complete my contribution before the adjournment. This is relatively uncontentious legislation. I join the previous speakers in paying tribute to the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas. Sometimes I wonder how they can bear to sit in the Chamber and listen to the utterances of many Members of the House. I know we are all familiar with the left and right hand side of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Legislation (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding roadside breath testing; if a lower alcohol to breath limit than normally applies for those with a full driving licence will be applied where a driver does not have a full driver's licence to hand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24239/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 272. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or her predecessors received a request from the Beit Foundation for assistance in the upkeep of Russborough House in Blessington in County Wicklow; if so, the details of same; and the action that was taken. [24355/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 273. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that was provided to assist in the promotion or upkeep of historic houses, which are the responsibility of trustees, in the years 2000 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the amounts provided and the houses to which they were provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24356/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which post-tender negotiation takes place in respect of contracts awarded through the public procurement process, despite this practice contravening the Irish rules for public procurement (details supplied); if during the lifetime of the current Government any contracts awarded through the public procurement process were...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money which has been spent by this Government since 2011 to ensure that suppliers who, through outsourcing or by other means, are dependent on offshore suppliers to win contracts meet all requisite ethical standards for contracts awarded through the public procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that all contracts awarded through the public procurement process during the lifetime of this Government were so awarded only after the company to which the contract was awarded was fully incorporated, including those contracts with a value of below €5,000, which were awarded but which still require the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total quantum of expenditure with suppliers on contracts of value less than the €5,000 threshold, below which contracts may be awarded on the basis of a verbal quotation; when he plans to extend the national e-procurement system to cover all public procurement contracts, with a value both above and below €5,000; if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons and bodies corporate without any training in procurement or commerce are permitted to put services out to tender through the public procurement process; the training that persons or bodies must undertake in order to be eligible to run tendering processes and interpret responses received using the public procurement process,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ethical standards Public Servants must conform to when they contract on behalf of the State; if there is a central register where Public Servants personally declare that they have no vested interest in the awarding of contract, and no conflict of interest in awarding any contracts of any value whatsoever; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any measures are utilised to ensure that competing parties in the public procurement process are compared on a like-for-like basis in respect of standards in workplace safety and employment regulations, notwithstanding that a competing party may use inputs from low-cost countries outside of the European Union in the supply-chain...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the appeal mechanisms, outside of judicial review, that are in place for parties who are unsuccessful in the public procurement process; his plans to introduce such an appeal mechanism; the specific steps the State takes to ensure that parties who are unsuccessful in the public procurement process and undertake a judicial review...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population Data (16 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 156. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons over 65 years of age, by county, in counties Wicklow, Wexford, Louth, Tipperary and Mayo. [23866/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (16 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on a disability allowance, by county for counties Wicklow, Wexford, Louth, Tipperary and Mayo. [23865/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (16 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: 806. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and availed of by the local authorities in Counties Wicklow, Tipperary, Louth, Wexford and Mayo for housing adaptation grants for the elderly and the disabled, for the years 2005 to 2014 and for 2015 to date. [23864/15]

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Timmins: We sent it at 3 p.m. or 4 p.m.