Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Sugar Company Headquarters.
- Sugar company headquarters cost penalty 2 speeches
The Minister said there was no cost penalty, given rental income from about half the building and the cost of relocating staff elsewhere.
Michael P. Kitt, Austin Deasy
- Sugar factory operating results 4 speeches
Deputy Fahey sought the operating profit or loss of each of the four factories; the Ceann Comhairle ruled it a separate question.
Frank Fahey, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick
- Headquarters costs and factory accounting 15 speeches
Members asked whether headquarters overheads were charged to individual factories, along with the offices’ running and administrative costs and staffing. The Minister said such overhead allocation would be normal accounting practice, could not provide the requested cost details, noted that half the building was rented out, and gave the headquarters staff total as 160.
Michael P. Kitt, Austin Deasy, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Leonard, Ned O'Keeffe
asked the Minister for Agriculture the cost penalty to Comhlucht Siúicre Éireann Teoranta of their headquarters at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin.
Comment on this
I am informed by the company that, when account is taken of the revenue derived from the letting of approximately half of the building and the costs that would be incurred in locating their own staff elsewhere, no cost penalty is attached to the company headquarters.
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Would the Minister please tell the House the actual situation pertaining to the four sugar factories in the Comhlucht Siúicre Éireann Teoranta operation and the operating loss or profit of the four individual factories?
Comment on this
That is a different question, Deputy. We have not yet got to the stage of having an impromptu Question Time, although we have got very near it.
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Is it not true that when losses of factories are being taken into account some of the overheads from the headquarters of the CSET are being shown up as losses in the individual factories?
Comment on this
I am not in a position to answer that question. I must say that that would be normal business accounting procedure. Might I point out that the question specifically refers to the headquarters of the Sugar Company?
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I can hardly be expected to supply information relating to losses in the individual factories around the country.
Comment on this
In reply to an earlier question, the Minister said that these charges were not included in the case of the Tuam sugar factory.
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Could the Minister tell us the cost of running the Earlsfort Terrace offices?
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I do not have that information. Half of that building is used by the sugar company and the other half is rented out to other agencies, some of them State agencies.
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What are the administrative costs for the Sugar Company's Earlsfort Terrace offices?
Comment on this
The question asked about the cost penalty in the operation of the headquarters. I said that there was no cost penalty because of the income derived from the letting value of half of the premises.
Comment on this
As I have a question on the Order Paper, could I ask the Minister a very simple question — the total number of staff employed at the headquarters of Comhlucht Siúicre Éireann Teoranta?