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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (10 Feb 2015)
Seán Fleming: 594. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional funding to Laois County Council for housing repairs for persons with disabilities, who are local authority tenants; if consideration will be given to this as an area of priority, as funding has been very limited in this area in recent times; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Feb 2015)
Seán Fleming: I will pass.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: I welcome the witnesses. There is one small issue I want to pick up on from the opening statement. There are approximately 500,000 septic tanks in the country, as a ballpark figure. There are 450,000 registered, and that is about 90% of the total. How many people would have private water supplies through their own direct wells or private group water schemes? Would it be in the same range?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: There would be about 300,000 houses on their own private water supply-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Or through group schemes, and about 500,000 houses have septic tanks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: That is almost one third of the houses in Ireland on septic tanks. What is the remit of Irish Water in respect of those properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Those 500,000 houses and the 350,000 houses that are on their own schemes or private sources, many of whom will be part of the 500,000-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy must know the answer to this because he has been responsible for the water services since they were invented. How many houses in the country would be on private wells or private schemes and not getting their source from the public water supply? I am trying to establish how many are outside the system. Mr. McCarthy is saying 20% are on private or individual wells. How many of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Somebody said 20% initially.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Ms Graham is saying that maybe about 9% have their own individual wells.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: It is just because in the opening statement it was said that since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation. The 500,000 people with septic tanks are clearly excluded, as are the 300,000 people. In case an impression was given by an earlier comment, we might want to correct that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: I understand that. In the first instance, I want to deal with Irish Water. What is the value of the assets and, separately, the liabilities transferred to Irish Water? I would not expect the witnesses to have the information here but perhaps they could forward it when they have the schedule of that. It would have been coming from the local authorities under their remit to Irish Water and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: And the liabilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: In other words, most of the assets have been funded at time of construction and there are very little liabilities. I get the picture. What is the value of the public private partnership contracts? I understand that a couple of years ago at this committee there was an estimate of about €1 billion worth of PPP liabilities, much of it being the wastewater treatment plants for contracts...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: Is it possible some of them have 20 years to run?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: The liability could be up to €2 billion. I am not talking about just the annual payment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: This is a figure nobody seems to be able to put their finger on. Can the committee get details of the total liability and annual operating costs? I think he will have it on a contract-by-contract basis. He will be able to list Portlaoise wastewater, for example. This is a summation of 20, 30, 40 or 50 contracts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: I am not interested in Irish Water. I am interested in the Department, the local authorities and the water services before they were transferred. What were the liabilities? We talk about building motorways and we know there is an annual fee for that. We also know there is a 25-year contract and a figure for the total value of the contract over its duration. It runs to about €4...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015) Seán Fleming: The appropriation account?