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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I might stay with Mr. Baneham regarding the questions Deputy Burke asked concerning the acquisition fund. On the issues relating to local authority vetting or auditing, I was a member of a local authority when that took place. I recall some of the reasons properties were refused. Those included not being wheelchair accessible or not being on the ground floor. I remember Fingal County...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: In 2017, when there was very clear housing need across the whole spectrum, local authorities were refusing units. I can understand the reasons they might but, as somebody who has people coming to his clinic every single day, they just seem like a luxury. That is a polite term. This seems like such a missed opportunity in that units that were available would have been availed of. I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: For ten years they were okay with saying they got things wrong.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Does that continue to be the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Jordan might say that to the leaders of Opposition parties who are opposing one-bedroom housing and saying we need two- and three-bedroom housing when 70% or 80% of the housing waiting lists are one- and two-bedroom-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is not a matter for Mr. Jordan but I take his point. If I may come back to the remaining target, how does the Housing Agency hope to achieve the remaining target and the remaining balance of the funding available to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I do want to move on to the approved housing bodies but, staying with Mr. Jordan, yesterday there was a very significant announcement relating to apartment defects. There is a proposed role for the agency in respect of the administration of the funding. The Construction Defects Alliance, which has done a huge amount of work on that, has very reasonably pointed out that many of the people...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Will that have a resourcing demand as well, from the agency's perspective?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move on to the AHB sector. I am Vice Chair of the Oireachtas housing committee and we have a line of accountability over what is happening in that area. We are just completing a round of delivery of Housing for All with AHBs and the local authorities and it has been very interesting to see how different local authorities and AHBs have been availing of the new tools that are available...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I am just conscious to hear from the regulator as well. Chair, I do not know whether there is time.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: No. I think the Chair is-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the eSPSV grant will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Finglas to Killester cycle scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2123/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the employment regulation order for the security industry. [2189/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the backlog and wait times for an NCT test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allow local authorities to use incremental credits to recruit more-experienced staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 1899. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Dublin City Council made an application under the town and village renewal scheme; and if so, if the council is eligible for same. [63428/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank out witnesses for being here today. The first question I want to ask Mr. McCarthy draws from my experience both on the Committee of Public Accounts and this committee regarding the whole area of local government auditing. There have been several media reports around different accounts of spending in different local authorities. I know from our discussions at the Committee of Public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I take Mr. McCarthy's point about it being well audited. The second part of an auditing process is holding the auditor's report to some form of democratic accountability. That is the area in which the current system struggles a little bit. RTÉ covered very widely the local government auditor's reports recently in a programme. It created much public concern around some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear what Mr. McCarthy is saying that ultimately the decision to work in this area lies with the Minister and the Department. I will not press him on that. One point I will make to him, though, is that often when there is media coverage of an event, there can be complexities to it that are not often covered in the media. As Mr. McCarthy said, for several of the incidents that were...