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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is often asked why the State is not building on them. Are they all suitable for houses? Are some unsuitable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Where are they now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Both. That is the first answer, now for the next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: How many landbanks did not go into the land aggregation scheme or the sustainable communities scheme of years ago? Relatively speaking, did half or a third of them go into the scheme? The Secretary General must have an indication of the hectarage involved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Secretary General can send it on to us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Secretary General can send that information to the committee in due course. I have already praised the excellent report. It raises a further issue, that of the 180 entities. I assume that these are various local authority companies undertaking local activities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Has the Department concerns in that regard? Is the Department aware of any major problem with their governance, directors, loan term agreements, accumulated losses incurred or going concern qualifications?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: They are to be mentioned specifically in a certain note in the local authorities' accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Local heritage or something like that. I understand the nature of them. I wish to address the reason the Secretary General is before us, that being, Vote 34 and the financial statement. I will ask a few straightforward questions about the Department's accounts as I go through this document. In the year under review, the Department did not go through the proper procurement process in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I see the other figures. That is the largest one.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will move on to major capital commitments on page 14. How did the Priory Hall refurbishment work out? At the end of 2016, the Department expected that would cost it approximately €20 million. At the end of 2017, the cost had grown to €48 million. What is the final or current position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The information on page 14 relates to the end of 2017 and is 14 months old. Will the Secretary General send us a note updating the committee on each of these projects, especially the newer ones at Cherry Orchard in Ballyfermot, St. Aidan's in Brookfield, Tallaght, and Ballyboden in Rathfarnham?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The 2017 figures are large. The Secretary General's update might set out the projects' status, estimated cost and, briefly, what was involved. The estimated cost of these projects added up to approximately €155 million at the time. I am sure it grew to much more. The Secretary General does not need to find the information now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It will be an audit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department will have put together its up-to-date accounts in recent weeks and will be sending them in soon. Prior to all that, I would like the up-to-date assessment of how these projects stand and a summary note. Local people might know what the Ballyboden project might be, but others might not. The committee members would not know what each project entails. The Secretary General can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: These are the 2017 accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: This figure will grow larger.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Secretary General can provide us with an update on the projects included in the 2017 accounts. We will get to the projects falling in 2018 in due course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: On the next page, will the Secretary General provide a note updating us on the regeneration project at Dolphin House in Dublin 8?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The figure seems high. I will not ask for all the infrastructure projects in Cork city, but could Mr. McCarthy tell me generally what infrastructural projects had a net cost of €72 million?