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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I have a couple of points. I know there were a lot of mentions of the former director not being reappointed. I think the Minister was right not to agree to a five-year term subject to all this happening and before everything related to this fiasco was teased out. I think he was right with regard to that. All contracts for delivery of the system were entered into after the appointment of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: My understanding is that it is a higher figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Have we, as committee members, been furnished by the witnesses with all pertinent documentation we need related to this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Did we, as a committee, receive any documents from the Arts Council to highlight this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am sorry. Apologies. Moving back to the issue of people in roles, it was mentioned that two of the management people were in outside organisations and came in from there. Was the senior manager associated with it a Department official or an Arts Council official?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Where are they employed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: They were senior management and are still in the same role at the same level within the organisation, the same as the person in the Department who got 60 pieces of correspondence and did not pass it up the chain of command to highlight the concerns given by the Arts Council. All of these people are still in roles at the same level as previously, despite over €5 million of a loss to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We have had it but things have not changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: In any other organisation or local club - for example, in my GAA club at home where I am involved - if anything is done wrong, you will not be in the same position; you will be gone. There seems to be a situation here where the level of mistakes or mismanagement - I do not know what the right word is - does not seem to matter. You stay at the same level. There are no consequences for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. Today's meeting is on housing delivery, service and supply. A critical requirement for the mass delivery of housing and apartment schemes across the country is the infrastructure required to service future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Thank you very much. Before we start, it would be remiss of me as Chair not to thank the staff of both organisations. Earlier this year, as we all know, Story Éowyn put the networks of both organisations to the pin of their collar. It is important to recognise that it was a challenging time but the staff I know worked around the clock, seven days a week, late at night and early in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Thank you. I call Deputy Eoin Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I suggest Irish Water goes first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We will move on as the time is up and next is Deputy Brian Stanley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I will add on time. The question the Deputy has asked - Uisce Éireann said it foresees it for developers and self-builds - is whether it sees a possibility for the same thing to be put in place for a rural dwelling. The same pipeline could be delivered at a far cheaper price if it were done by them through a local contractor than if it were done by Irish Water. Does Irish Water see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I will add it on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I have to move on to Senator McCarthy. Deputy Séamus McGrath will step in for me for 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I have to move on. We have gone well over the time on that. We will get a chance to come back for that answer. The next slot is for Fianna Fáil. I call Deputy McGrath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The next speaking slot is my own, as the last member. I have a couple of points on a matter that has been raised by members, namely, the role of temporary treatment plants to address the lack of capacity in the public system in certain towns. The second and third biggest towns in County Longford, Ballymahon and Edgeworthstown, have no capacity, so no houses can be built. We have a company...