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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: It is the same with the Department of Health. Every year a certain amount of funding is allocated, and it is never spent because the Department does not recruit sufficient staff. At what stage does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform ever take the Department to task over that, or is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform happy to take whatever is said and to allocate...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Moloney ever say to the Department that it gets it wrong every year or is it just allocated whatever money is requested?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: How would Mr. Moloney juggle that with the retrofit scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Moloney see himself revising down the targets for the retrofit scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Moloney have any value-for-money concerns around the deep retrofitting schemes? The primary focus is on deep retrofitting. We have a situation where people who are in a position to go ahead and go to the one-stop-shop can draw down a low-interest loan and there is no significant outlay as such for that. Does he have concerns that it is primarily geared towards that and other...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: -----and all that sort of thing. Some people are not in a financial position to do more extensive work. From a value-for-money perspective and in terms of reducing emissions or from the point of view of ordinary people, does it offers value for money as it currently stands?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am talking about people who have to pay upfront for individual schemes. They have far fewer options open them. The scheme is hardly fit for purpose from the point of view of value for money or even fairness, and the impact in terms of reducing carbon emissions. Does Mr. Moloney have concerns about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Okay. I want to raise the informal agreement, if you like, between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that allows for the transfer of funds of up to €3 million under subheads. Is that figure correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Against the budget of €5.1 billion, €466 million was allocated under the arrangement. Is Mr. Moloney's Department concerned that such significant sums are being allocated without oversight.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I understand it is there and in place. Time is of the essence, however. Has Mr. Moloney concerns about a vast amount of money like that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: A figure of €230 million was reallocated from housing to local government. Given that he has oversight, can Mr. Moloney indicate what did not go ahead in housing and what did go ahead in local government instead? It was €230 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, I would appreciate that. Are there similar arrangements with other Departments?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Would Mr. Moloney have an idea of the total value or percentage of that expenditure for 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Would that be €1 billion in total across all Departments-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: -----that was transferred under different subheads without any kind of oversight?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: It is a hell of a lot of taxpayers' money on which to have no oversight, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: When will that be done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: It will be done this year.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: The transfer was given effect in January. Does the Minister have a date for the transfer in the context of this Bill? When is it intended to give this effect from?