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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that. It is similar to what Mr. Doyle said earlier, but, again, it goes back to my concern about asking the councils to speak to each other, pick up the phone and hand-hold our way through the process. What happens after that. What is the next step? This is where there a concern about auditing, so what is next? When we look at the Department accounts versus local authority...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is about more than monitoring. There was a structure put in place in respect of the construction status report. When will that be published for the first quarter of this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It will be next week. Where do we expect delivery to be for local authorities and approved housing bodies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is it up or down on the fourth quarter of 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is being published next week. It is exactly what I mean. We have a housing crisis and we are trying to effect delivery. There is a substantial body being given both to the Department and local authorities to do that. These numbers are extremely important to us. The inconsistency between local authorities and approved housing bodies and deliveries from those is one of the reasons...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We have been doing this for a really long time and one of key measures of the Department is about effecting delivery. As Secretary General, Mr. Doyle has the largest housing budget there has ever been. That is in addition to the broad stream of local authority funding. Is Mr. Doyle satisfied the departmental controls are sufficient in chasing up local authority delivery? Is he satisfied...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not disagree with that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is exactly my point. Those build figures in quarter 1 of 2022 are very important in that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, but also from the purchase of turnkeys.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Going back to the Accounting Officer role, Mr. Doyle mentioned the importance of ensuring value for money. I want to take up on the point that the committee identified earlier about having more assurances for control, weaknesses being identified, and putting appropriate controls in place to manage those risks. Will Mr. Doyle commit to the committee that a Department of Public Expenditure...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Or a code of practice that is at least similar to the standards in DPER for the other public bodies. There is a gap here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is exactly it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is very helpful. Is that a commitment? When the review work is complete will that be done, so that the next time the Department comes before the committee that will be in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Mr. O'Leary have a timeline for that, please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. It is interesting because when this was introduced, it was set out - perhaps it was just a perception - as a panacea for social housing delivery. The idea was that the block arose from the big, bad Department causing too much of an obstruction for local authorities. A number of 600 units nationally coming through the one-stage pipeline seems very low. Is it lower than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry for being so late. As the Chair will know, I was at the Committee of Public Accounts this morning. I have an observation to make on what Ms Phelan said about the two different rooms and the economy and social inclusion divide. I want to back up that point. I worked as a Government adviser for nearly ten years. Much of this was on the social side involving the Department with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the work-life balance measures that are being considered by his Department to make the Defence Forces a more family-friendly environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33633/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yesterday was a very significant and important day with the publication of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I thank the Minister and congratulate her on her work in steering the Department towards the strategy's publication yesterday. It is an extremely far-reaching strategy but its real strength is that it has been built on exceptional...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The implementation plan is crucial. Members of Government parties, the Opposition and the sector will rightly hold the Department and the agency to account on that. The plan shows a clear commitment to set out quarter by quarter exactly what is intended to be delivered by each Department. That is the only way to ensure implementation on a cross-government basis. What the Minister said...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to raise again the zero-tolerance strategy published by the Government yesterday, which is the third strategy against domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. In particular, I wish to ask the Minister about the family law reform Bill and the family courts work which I hope is about to be published either before the Dáil recess or in the very early weeks of the next term. It...