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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: What does that say about the Department? I will come back to my original point. HAP was designed to shove people into private rented accommodation. There have been no reviews of rent payments. There is a scandalous inspection regime. No information has been gathered on the number of tenants paying top-ups or on the value of these payments. Given the rates, any income or support a person...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: It has been seven years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: It has not been reviewed since 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: It is still five years in which the Department has done nothing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I wanted to flag a couple of aspects of the correspondence. The first was the inability of the RTÉ representatives to provide us with the information on the percentage of their income that is being spent on their top earners, despite the fact that they had given an undertaking to us to do precisely that. This illustrates RTÉ’s typical approach to this committee over the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: That is why I ask those particular questions. Surely they can tell us the amount earned by their top ten earners from 2019 to date and the number of people who are earning in excess of €150,000, from 2019 to date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: And the questions about the RTÉ Player. I thank the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I do not think the Department's response, in fairness, brings any additional clarity. In fact, it raises even more questions. There are many questions to be asked but with the committee's permission, I ask that members submit questions we could send on to the Department for answers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I thank the Chairman. This also has to do with value for money. Imagine a spend of over €72,000 per day on transport for children in south Dublin. I suggest we write to the HSE and ask why early intervention services are not being provided in south Dublin and other areas. Surely to goodness with that amount of money being spent on transport every day, it would be more...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I was querying whether we had got a further update or whether there were any developments on it in general.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I will ask my questions for all three groups together to allow time to answer. Ms Traynor of SAOI referred to the recommendations made by Fair Plé relating to conditions for receiving funding. I ask Ms Kennelly to give her opinion on this and also to state whether the Arts Council would consider the introduction of these recommendations. Could Ms Traynor confirm that SAOI was not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Ms Kennelly said the Arts Council was implementing certain aspects. I did not get a direct response on whether the Arts Council would consider the introduction of the recommendations made by Fair Plé in their totality. I would like an answer to that. Regarding what SAOI has outlined, should the committee write to the Minister asking her to address the matter of the independent body...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: What about the recommendations by Fair Plé?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: The dental treatment purchase scheme is on the verge of collapse throughout the State. The scheme has been haemorrhaging dentists for the past two years. We have medical card holders with cancer, kidney transplant patients and people with diabetes who cannot access a dentist. This has gone on for a year now. The Government needs to take responsibility. People are suffering and it is...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The costs of energy and fuel have been front and centre of the spiralling price increases in the past year or so. The Government is giving the energy companies a payment on behalf of all households in the State but it is not addressing the root cause of the price increases. Given the scale of the price hikes, it will not be enough. ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 209. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital grants will be open for applications. [8961/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (22 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 768. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a new fit for purpose ambulance station in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9428/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address reports that she intends to make changes to the television licence fee collection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10695/22]