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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: We have accidentally stumbled across an area that is of importance, namely, how local authorities maintain housing stock and over time how they upgrade it. This touches on the issue of voids versus casual voids and the way the State is funding both. There is no category this issue could be easily slotted into and, therefore, it deserves a stand-alone hearing. It is important that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Maintenance and management of public housing. It also leads to the false decision by the Department that AHBs are a better place to manage our stock because somehow they can maintain it better than local authorities. The main reason for that is local authorities often do not have the funding to manage and maintain housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I think it should be "management and maintenance of public housing stock".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Can I make a proposal? The approval process links neatly with the value for money of the different schemes, in that each of the schemes has an approval process and they all differ. The approval process would either fall into that category or the category with the Minister which I think is already too full.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: New build, regeneration and refurbishments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Anything that has planning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The people in the farthest points are an important part of our debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: One of the points that was referenced by Senator Fitzpatrick was the 25 directly elected mayors. I would be anxious that when we discuss that, we talk about both directly elected mayors and local government reform. There is a view that directly elected mayors are the only show in town when it comes to local government reform. We need to make sure we reform the base level before we put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no point in putting a directly elected mayor on top of the current local authority system in Dublin, for example. We would just end up with a directly elected city or county manager. We need to reform the way they have budgets passed through a council and the way they consult with other councillors and we would need to have a cabinet system and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: We can have a meeting about Dublin mayors.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I return to a point Mr. McDonagh made earlier about the strategy for dealing with these portfolios. He said he felt there was exposure to third-party creditors leading to the strategy that was taken. Did that rush or that need for a decision to be made quickly inform the overall strategy in this case?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: To confirm, the pressure to complete the sale in what Mr. McDonagh described as a very distressed market was a result of the involvement of external creditors.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Was that unusual?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Was it different from any other projects within the overall investment platform?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Was the strategy to proceed with a targeted sale on the Project Nantes portfolio unique or were other portfolios in the platform handled in the same way?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Did any others proceed on the basis of a targeted sale? I refer to those bundled together in the total achievement of €210 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: My question was whether it was the only one to involve a targeted sale.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Figure 3 in Mr. McDonagh's statement shows the overall cash outcome of the Avestus loans. Of all the bars on that chart, was Project Nantes the only one to proceed with a targeted sale?