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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: These big developers, who have already got forward purchase agreements with the investment or cuckoo funds, are capable of arranging funding themselves and capable of formulating a business plan and going to the banks to get that because, let us say, they are in a far more comfortable position than a small- or medium-sized developer. In giving that money over, it seems to me the equivalent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Gosh. I am sure they were rubbing their hands when they got the funding so easy, given the exorbitant rental charge and the profits they are going to make. The remit of the HBFI was not to distort the market. Of the €300 million, some €190 million of that went to those cuckoo funds or developers that had the forward purchase agreements. It does not seem to add up. What were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I have asked this several times. Were they requested to produce refusals from banks, left, right and centre, before they came to the HBFI?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The HBFI just handed it over. Out of that €300 million from the momentum fund, how many homes will be affordable and how many social?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Out of the €274 million, we have 85 that are social housing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The rest are gone to cuckoo funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, cuckoo funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I want to come back to the momentum fund. Ms Deering said it was set up in case funding from the mainstream banks would be constrained during Covid. At the same time, HBFI had no checks and balances when the big developers were applying for funding. It did not ask for a single sheet of paper that would show they had already been refused or had any difficulty whatsoever in getting the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Everyone under the sun knows that if there were forward purchase agreements already in place, they would have been huge things to go to the bank with. They would have been sure of getting funding but HBFI did not ask any questions whatsoever. It allocated €300 million out of the €730 million to that. The largest tranche of funding given out was €94 million, which was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Ms Deering said that they would not be built if HBFI did not step in right there and then, but did HBFI ask for evidence that the developer had been refused by a bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Sorry, forgive me, I might be confused here but how can Ms Deering say that if HBFI had not stepped in, there and then, that these developments would not happen when it had not even asked if the developer had been to a bank, had been refused and for evidence of same? How does that tally?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The correspondence we have received from the IHRB differs greatly from the previous correspondence we got from the same body in November 2021. In that communication, it was stated that the installation of CCTV would have been completed at all the racecourses prior to the commencement of the 2022 season. The correspondence we have received now, however, states that an estimated date cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, that is fine.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: On International Women's Day 2022, women who experience domestic violence and abuse are still being turned away from refuges. In fact, nine counties throughout the State do not have any domestic violence refuge at all. The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, said there would be extra places by the end of the year, but women cannot wait that long. When will women be a priority for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance that is given to secondary schools with regard to the charging of non-refundable enrolment and entrance exam fees to secure a student's place on acceptance of an application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12956/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I will touch on the report on the look-back review into CAMHS in south Kerry. I will direct my questions to Mr. Reid. It has been reported in the media that the whistleblower was told to take time off and was confined to administrative duties. Will Mr. Reid confirm that the HSE took this action?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Can Mr. Reid confirm if it is standard practice in the HSE to ask whistleblowers to take leave or to confine them to administrative duties and, in fact, to punish them?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The reality is it does happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Reports indicate that it has in fact happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Sharma has actually left the HSE now. Am I right in saying that?