Results 7,021-7,040 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: He can use the committee to get a budget from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I understand that and we will not dwell on the point. When the list is available the Department knows the number of applications and knows that so many houses have been allocated or that approved housing bodies have taken people off the list. There will be people on the list who, as time passes, will no longer be interested. I understand that. We are not asking the Department to go back...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I understand that, and the reason is that there is probably a lot of manual work involved. That is why the local authorities speak of being harassed. If this process was automated, we would have somebody in the housing Department who could provide the number of applications processed this week and the number of applications on hand but not yet processed. That is the big issue we have with...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I have another question, and Mr. Murray might know the answer. How many people have transferred from rent supplement to the housing assistance payment, HAP, since the scheme began? If that figure is not available, it can be sent to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: How many have still to be transferred from rent supplement? I presume the plan is to close rent supplement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We are not half way. How many have been transferred from rent supplement to HAP?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Are you saying there are another 20,000 to be transferred?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: How long have we been doing this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We are not half way there yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That is normal in shared services. I understand that system too. However, I am surprised that there is still so far to go.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Send the committee a detailed note on that. You have the information and statistics. People on rent supplement are on the housing list, but people on HAP are not. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: By changing the name from rent supplement to HAP in the coming short period 20,000 people will be taken off the housing lists. You will have the problem solved by changing the name of the scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: They can work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I understand that, but the reduction of 13,000 in the number on the housing list is as a result of people moving from rent supplement to HAP. Another 20,000 will come off the national housing waiting list when they are transferred. You understand my point. Am I interpreting it reasonably?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: The regeneration programme was mentioned earlier. There is a small one in Portlaoise and I see the benefit of it. I presume the 200 you mentioned are specific projects, not one here and there. There are probably six or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Can you give the committee a list of the ones you are referring to for last year, how many houses were in the areas before regeneration started and how many will be there when it is finished? In some areas there are fewer houses at the end of it, although there might be other facilities. I believe the Deputy was trying to find out if the regeneration figure of 200 is increasing the housing...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I will be helpful to you. When you are sending us that short report, give us a brief description of each scheme, what is envisaged and the new facilities so we can get the full picture of the scheme. We are examining housing now, but I take your point that there is far more to it. I know that from the scheme in Portlaoise. It will give you the opportunity to give us the full context of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We are just looking at housing figures and housing stock now. I am almost finished. I am a little rusty on this but does somebody have to be on the housing waiting list to get HAP?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: By and large, it is an income of under €30,000 for most people to be on the housing list. That is not much more than combined social welfare payments. There is very little income.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Perhaps you will send us that schedule so we are accurate if we are making a comment.