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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Ms Deering said she is not getting applicants for some reason and we must establish that reason. It is very strange. Like Deputy Catherine Murphy beside me, I have no issue with housing in Dublin and it is obvious that it is where the biggest gap is. It has a bigger percentage of the population. Of the build-to-rent apartments, as we might call them, and their financing, how many are rented?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: They are not built. How many apartments are there in Dublin that are not rented?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Like me, Ms Deering might be of the opinion that number forms quite a large percentage of the stock. It keeps the rent up. There is a large percentage of empty apartments at the rate of rents we are discussing here and yet we are funding that type of apartment. Is that not strange?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: No. Is it or is it not strange? If there are empty one-bedroom apartments at that level of rent, how can it be said there is a requirement for more? Really, what is being done is ensuring rent stays up rather than reducing the rent and making the apartments available. That level of corporate rent is being maintained and the related entities in business. Mr. Alger should feel free if he...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is it not just outrageous that taxpayers' money is funding something that could sit there to keep rents at their current extortionate level? If the witnesses think it makes my blood boil, it makes everybody's blood boil that we do not have the cop-on to use the money efficiently and build housing where people can live. How can the witnesses sit there credibly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: How can we, Chair? I am fuming at the prospect of nothing really being solved here except us financing cuckoo funds, it appears. There is not a Deputy on the committee who will disagree with that, including the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Does Ms Deering disagree with me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: If that is the role of HBFI, how many apartments in Dublin are empty at the rental property rate at which Ms Deering has indicated these will be rented? How many are empty because they are not rented?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Then Ms Deering cannot make that statement or the statement does not stack up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I do not need a final point because the reality is that what Ms Deering is saying does not equate to what is happening.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am not sure we need to hear it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: What was the cost of that 70% share versus the 30% share?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: That 30% equates to almost €300 million and we do not know whether it will bring value for money. We have no idea.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: We may still have homelessness and a housing list not seeing any movement. It is what we are here to discuss and I thought it was part of the remit of HBFI to get those houses not just built but occupied. If they are not occupied, it defeats the purpose of HBFI.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the administration of the €1,000 bonus payment for frontline healthcare workers; when frontline healthcare workers will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12235/22]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: For the second year running, I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the topic of International Women’s Day. In my speech last year I spoke primarily about the positive strides that have been made over the past few decades with regard to women in politics, education and in sport, while at the same time highlighting a number of areas that needed further attention. I spoke...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: She is a wonderful woman with an extraordinary achievement.

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I will put Galway there and that is where she is from but we definitely gave her that resilience in Wexford. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Let me outline to the Taoiseach the composition of the price of a litre of fuel this morning. While it may vary around the country, the diesel pump price that I have been given this morning is €1.899 and it may be higher in certain parts of the country. The Government tax take is 96.58 cent, which is 50.86%. Taxes applied include excise duty, carbon tax and the National Oil Reserves...