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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (17 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for sentencing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42515/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (18 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of actions his Department will take to tackle coastal erosion in Portrane; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42852/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the resources, personnel and vehicles for Balbriggan, Dublin Airport, Garristown, Lusk, Malahide, Skerries and Swords in each year from 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42850/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (18 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the reopening of Rush Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42851/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (18 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: 261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the delivery of a metro to Dublin Airport and Swords; the timeframe for the completion of the project; when the next phase of the metro project will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42853/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: First, I wish to offer congratulations to the Minister on his appointment. I am pleased for him personally and I wish him every success. The Topical Issue matter that I wish to raise affects a school in my constituency and also affects other schools. The Minister will be aware that phase 1 of the development of Ardgillan community college, which was started in 2009, has closed elements...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for his response. Given that he has only been in the role a matter of days, he will be shocked as all of us are, regarding the developments that have directly affected 1,200 pupils and which will undoubtedly affect many more. It is particularly shocking, and an indictment of poor construction techniques and oversight of the construction industry in the past, that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank our guests for attending and for their efforts in their various Departments. The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in 2017 spent about €1.4 billion, I believe, of which €230 million-odd on rents. Could the witnesses indicate to the committee how much was recouped in terms of the receipt of tenants' rental payments to the State? I ask the witnesses...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: In 2017.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy could come back on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Please do.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: What qualifies a body to become an approved housing body? What checks and balances are performed in order for it to become an approved housing body?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Does the Department have oversight over this? Is there a secondary oversight or a parliamentary oversight over this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Functional oversight would involve the housing committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Mr. O'Connor is saying there is no oversight function.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: He is saying it could be introduced into committee, for instance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: I refer to the oversight, the auditing, the probing of how AHBs are spending their money and the figure I asked for, which, again, the witnesses can provide in due course: the number of properties and the cost of the delivery of those properties through AHBs and then our own direct delivery, either through the Department or local authorities. I would be interested to know those figures and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: What about the number of dwellings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: While Mr. McCarthy gets that, I will move on. In recent days there has been quite a stir about one particular contractor hired by the Department of Education and Skills and also, I believe, by local authorities or perhaps directly, namely, Western Building Systems. I understand it has delivered some social housing. How confident are the witnesses that those units, whenever they were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Alan Farrell: Have they been inspected?