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Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: What is the target and by what year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: When the planning Bill was going through the Dáil, the figures of 500 and 600 vacancies were used repeatedly by different groups who were making submissions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand. There is an absence of people for an effective planning system and local authority but there is a plan in place to sort that out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. My next question is in relation to inspections.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will. Inspections are very low. The take-up of disability grants is very low. There is underspending in lots of programmes while there is an absolute housing crisis. There is not much one can do in a few minutes but it is a disaster.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am looking at pages 44 and 45. There is an underspend on inspections due to a lack of staff. I am looking at the Department's accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I stick with what is before me? I see an underspend on the most basic thing we have, the inspections system. On pages 44 and 45, it tells me-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I know. Maybe we will reflect on how we do this.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 28 of 1 May 2025, and 6 of 20 February 2025, if the action plan on business and human rights has now been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the analysis undertaken of the activities of a company (details supplied), which company continues to generate profit from tourism to illegal settlements, deemed illegal under international law; if he is concerned that despite the ruling by the International Court of Justice in July 2024 that Israel's occupation of Palestinian...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of dual-use export licence applications, in respect of end-users in Israel, approved by his Department by quarter in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number refused in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 20 February 2025, to detail the way in which, as outlined in the reply, officials carry out an assessment which includes a series of checks to ensure, as far as possible, that the item to be exported will be used by the stated end-user for the stated end-use and will not be used for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline for the publication of 'Enterprise 2035'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for disability allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 11 May 2023, if the discussions between his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure on the cost of administering the auto enrolment pensions system have taken place; if they have, the estimated cost to the exchequer of administering the scheme in 2025; the expected...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide for more flexibility around the TÚS scheme to allow those under 20 years and unemployed to participate, to reduce the qualifying period for those aged 20-25 to six months, to reduce the mandatory minimum period of time between TÚS placements to two years; and if he will make a statement on the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh ar aon nós. Níl a fhios agam cé mhéid nóiméad atá agam.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are three speakers, if they turn up.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tuigim. Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh until they come. Go raibh míle maith agat. Unfortunately, the Deputy who made the allegation of sanctimonious wrath against a colleague in another party has left. I cannot think of anything more inappropriate from a TD who is part of the Government that is standing over a housing crisis. The only sanctimonious wrath that I have ever heard in this...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy O'Gorman and the Green Party for bringing forward this motion and putting the spotlight on public transport. I am also grateful that the Government is not opposing it. I welcome the Minister of State's speech. I know he is heart and soul behind rail. I may get a chance to come back to that. The Minister of State acknowledged that "Public transport is not just about...