Results 1-4 of 4 for construction industry council speaker:Joe Costello

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

Joe Costello: ...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 inherited when it came into...

Public Private Partnerships: Motion. (8 Jul 2008)

Joe Costello: The date, 19 May, was a very bleak day for residents in O'Devaney Gardens, Dominick Street Lower and St. Michael's Estate. On that day, Dublin City Council announced that the public private partnership agreements for the regeneration of these estates had effectively collapsed and that there was no plan B to be put in place. Unbelievably, Bernard McNamara took to the national airwaves...

Dáil Sittings: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Joe Costello: ...'s hospital. Temple Street children's hospital remains located in antiquated prefab buildings that are totally unsuitable for the treatment of children, yet no steps have been taken towards the construction of the national children's hospital on the Mater hospital site that has been designated for it. The accident and emergency crisis has remained unaddressed for over a decade with...

Agency Workers: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Joe Costello: ...of Irish workers. It is about modern day slavery, as Jack O'Connor, president of SIPTU, stated when he recently described the burgeoning practice of employing agency workers, particularly in the construction and catering industries, the services industry and seasonal work. Ireland has aided and abetted this practice and abuse for more than a decade. Tens of thousands of workers from...