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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)

Bobby Aylward: Where are they?

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)

Bobby Aylward: There are 500.

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)

Bobby Aylward: They are growing like mushrooms.

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)

Bobby Aylward: Is there a need for 50? Most of the actions we are taking to achieve value for money aim to make groups smaller and amalgamate them. It is the preferred way to make them more efficient and effective. Instead of this, the number appears to be growing when there are so many of them. They are supposed to be non-profit, but there must be a reason for them starting. I am sure there is a...

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)

Bobby Aylward: Is the regulation strict enough? Can any group meet in a room, decide to start a voluntary housing body and just apply and everything is hunky-dory? If regulation is tight, that should not happen.

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)

Bobby Aylward: If 20 more appear in 2019, will the Department approve them if they just comply with the regulations?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. O'Connor accept that there are too many?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Will that happen in the future? Will they be disbanded?

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)

Bobby Aylward: It was over 10,000 at one point.

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)

Bobby Aylward: What is the information to which the Chairman is referring?

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It is true, though.

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I am delighted to contribute to the debate on the motion on water services tabled by the Rural Independent Group. A central component of the confidence and supply agreement on water charges is fairness to rural and urban dwellers. That was a key outcome of the work of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services. There was a need for equity between rural and urban...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a formal engagement with his Dutch counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45835/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the provision of funding has been investigated for the purchase of additional high powered off-road bikes for use by An Garda Síochána in specialised situations or pursuits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45834/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 749. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had formal engagements with his EU counterparts over the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45837/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 778. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the potential funding streams available to assist and-or supplement a person (details supplied) in the replanting of Sitka spruce following the conclusion of the felling process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Funding (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 943. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the possibility of increasing the budget for the rural transport programme by 10% has been investigated; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45838/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 1067. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); the action she will take to ensure this appeal is processed as efficiently as possible in view of the amount of time it has been with the social welfare appeals office and the circumstances the person is enduring; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her plans to extend the total contributions approach announced in budget 2019 being applied to those who left the work force for an extended period of time to raise children in the home and who retired on or before September 2012 to those who retired in similar circumstances and who retired in the years and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (6 Nov 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 1236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to meet the CEO of the Irish Film Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45836/18]