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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)

Matt Carthy: If all of the remaining applications, if I can use that term, were to reach fruition, how many apartments would be delivered?

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)

Matt Carthy: I presume state aid approval has not been granted. From that and from Mr. Baneham's reticence to give information, I take it that no application has actually been approved as of yet. Is that fair to say?

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)

Matt Carthy: I take it that Mr. Baneham also cannot or will not provide a breakdown of approvals by local authority area or project size. We will have to follow up on this matter and use our authority to insist on that information being provided. This is a flagship programme. In every debate on housing I listen to, a Government spokesperson tells us that this is going to be a key scheme. One of the...

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)

Matt Carthy: We are told that, at the summit, representatives of a number of developers were indicating that they wanted an increased level of subsidy. I take it the Housing Agency was represented at that seminar.

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)

Matt Carthy: Can the agency give us any indication of the level of additional subsidy being sought?

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)

Matt Carthy: They just want more.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I support that proposal. We need to have quite an in-depth discussion with the HSE on disability services. One of the things about which we could correspond with the HSE beforehand is the level of services provided by comparison with the level of funding provided for each region. For example, in the community healthcare organisation, CHO, that my constituency falls under, I am aware that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: But here it is actually blatant. The policy prevents some children from applying. There will always be disparities with waiting lists and the timeframe within which services are delivered, but here we have a situation where policy is discriminating against children depending on where they live.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: No, I have nothing. I had questions in respect of the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government. Its officials are appearing before the committee next week, however, so I will leave it there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: This is in respect of the pensions issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: This matter arose in terms of the regulator, particularly upon the privatisation of the lottery when matters relating to the pensions of previous workers who transferred were not resolved in advance. There are other areas where this has become an issue. Can the Comptroller and Auditor General explain how these anomalies arise?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: In what vein is it moving towards a resolution ? Where will the liability lay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I know it has been in the news for other reasons, but am I correct in saying there have been similar issues with Coillte where people have gone from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine? Is that something with which Mr. McCarthy is familiar?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: That has not come across Mr. McCarthy's desk.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps we could write to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to get clarification on whether there was any transfer of employees from the Department to a semi-State body, and, in that regard, on who takes on the burden of pension entitlements. While we are talking about the lottery, the Chairman will recall that we had a number of engagements with its representatives before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: It was sent but there have been no responses yet from the regulator.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: It was suggested that we would include the regulator within our work programme. Is that still the intention?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Yes. There is not much content-wise although it is a long enough letter. It goes through the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, funding until 2027 and references 2028 to 2030 as being unknown due, obviously, to the next United Nations Forum on Forests, UNFF, covering that period. It would be useful if we could get clarification from the Department of the Environment, Climate and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: This is in respect of which paragraph?