Results 20,041-20,060 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy got the list of issues on which the Deputy asked them to come back regarding the people who have left the HAP scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Just in case it is glanced over now, the request has been made by the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is exactly the topic of the next meeting. We have PPPs, the Department of Finance and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----the Department of Education and Skills.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is the sole item on the agenda on 22 March. We will have all the people in that the Deputy is talking about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The accounts show there was an overspend of €62.357 million on local authority housing. I presume a lot of that was on purchases because the Department was not building a lot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy send us a detailed note, because he has it in his folder, about the three PPPs that are in train, the one that is at procurement-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The three different projects Mr. McCarthy mentioned, the three different bundles.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy send a detailed note to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Draft plans.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: At this stage, I will call Deputy O'Connell.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: On the national planning framework, perhaps Mr. McCarthy would send the committee a note on the cost involved in producing it, including the number of consultants and environmental experts involved and the amounts paid to them. I have no idea what producing the framework cost but I am sure it cost a lot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: How many houses will the Department acquire this year through the Part V mechanism?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is Mr. McCarthy familiar with the report on unfinished housing estates that was published yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department is nearly there and I give it credit for that. What interaction is there between the Department and the four local authorities concerned in respect of the completion of the 1,084 vacant units within the surveyed unfinished developments? I believe the Department indicated there were 256 such estates. There are four counties that have over 100 such units on their lists. These...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: As I said earlier, most of the work is already done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are 135 vacant units in Laois which we could fill very easily without going outside of the county.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is stated on page 17 of the report that savings of €2.2 million arose owing to slower than anticipated uptake in the national taking-in-charge of estates initiative. Did the Department provide any funding under this heading last year or this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: What number of estates per local authority have not yet been taken in charge?