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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)
Shane Cassells: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the new model of allocating GAM hours and resource hours to national schools in the forthcoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10228/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)
Shane Cassells: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the new model of allocating GAM hours and resource hours to national schools in the forthcoming school year in relation to scenarios (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10229/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (28 Feb 2017)
Shane Cassells: 435. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a detailed breakdown of recently implemented or proposed changes to the funding or operating terms and conditions of community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10234/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (2 Mar 2017)
Shane Cassells: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has not been provided with a reader or scribe for the 2017 junior certificate examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10838/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I thank the Chair. I welcome Mr. John McCarthy and his staff. Mr. McCarthy covered a huge amount in his opening statement. He began by talking about housing so I will start there as well if that is okay. Chapter 5 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2015 report relates to progress on land aggregation. In layman's terms, it sets out the progress that is being made with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Why were there delays from 2014 until 2016, given that the scheme closed in December 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I presume the councils that acquired these landbanks did so for the purpose of providing housing. They would have had conceptual schemes or detailed schemes in place for these landbanks at the time of their acquisition under this scheme. Given the seriousness of the situation, why has there been a three-year delay with the progress of these sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. Can I ask a straight question on these sites? Is the Department reticent to develop council estates again? Does the Housing Agency have an ideological issue with the construction of State-owned county council estates of approximately 200 houses? I am asking Mr. McCarthy whether such an ideological barrier exists on the part of the Department or of the Housing Agency. Some of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. I am asking whether the day of council housing estates has gone, from the Department's point of view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I know, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. Will we see council estates constructed on the landbanks that are now under the remit of the Department, having been acquired under the land aggregation scheme? How will the landbanks be progressed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The 28-acre site in my home town is draining resources out of the council. Is the Department prepared to fund that scheme as an actual housing estate? There are 28 acres there. That would provide a very good amount of houses for the 1,500 people on the housing waiting list in my town and the 5,000 people that are on a housing waiting list in County Meath.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The Department has owned it for more than ten years. It is still green grass. Very quickly----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: It has. The funny thing about it is - this is an issue for all Deputies - that there is no abundance of publicly-owned lands within councils. That is one of the biggest problems. In County Meath, that is the only piece of land of a substantial nature that is in public ownership for social housing in a county of 180,000 people. That 28 acres is the only piece of publicly-owned land in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Okay. How come the agency does not record that it has an asset?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: The agency is recording these lands as an asset. There are 610 acres.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: I hope so. Moving on to chapter four on the funding of local government, one of the things that really frustrates people is how their money is spent. It is not the payment of tax, rather how it is spent. Ask any resident in this country who pays property tax their view on what they expected to get, what they thought they would get and what they actually got. I know the value of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: They were then taken away through the removal of financing for houses and roads and through councils having to then self-finance. Those aspects came out of the surplus from the LPT.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Shane Cassells: Exactly. What was given with one hand was taken away with the other.