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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: -----we are talking about breach of planning, court orders being in place and no action being taken. Rate payers and taxpayers are paying for a service from their local authorities and action is not being taken where people have totally flouted the law. Everyone who has complied with the law is paying up their full amount of taxes and full amount of rates, yet people who have flouted the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we have a timeline by which action will be taken on this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I also wish to raise the issue about the collection of rents from local authority housing. Can we get a breakdown from each local authority on the arrears? I understand that it is about €80 million across the entire State. Can we get a breakdown on what is the annual rent collected by each local authority from housing and what are the arrears that have now accumulated? How do we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we also get a reason there is such a variation? Some local authorities work very closely on this. Obviously there are tenants who do run into difficulties, and this must also be considered, but some local authorities seem to work very effectively while others seem not to be as effective in dealing with the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I raise a final question regarding taking in charge of properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I will return to the role of local authorities in planning. One of the problems I am coming across, and the Department must have an input in this, is local authorities not implementing the conditions in planning. You come across estates built over 15 or 20 years ago that have still not been taken in charge. I am talking about estates in cities and county areas. What is the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Over 500 plants in the country have not been taken over by Irish Water. We put in €3.5 billion last year to upgrade those facilities. We have 50 plants in Cork county that are not up to scratch and we are going nowhere with them. I need to know what we intend doing over the next 12 months. What are we doing to make sure local authorities follow through on planning compliance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Making sure local authorities do so is within the remit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I know of one estate in Cork city alongside which the Revenue Commissioners have their main office for the southern region. This estate was built 15 years ago but has still not been taken in charge by the local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: It would be helpful for the committee if we could find out the number of estates around the country that have not been taken in charge and what decisive action needs to be taken to make sure there is full compliance with planning and that local authorities are following it up because this is taxpayers' money. It is costing the taxpayer more money to bring these estates up to standard because...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: May I ask Mr. Doyle about the collection of planning charges by local authorities? I have seen some estates where, for instance, up to €1 million is being paid in planning charges but the local authority does not then respond by providing services to that area. That money is not ring-fenced to the area in question, so one could come back five, ten or 15 years later and none of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Doyle not accept that we need a more robust system in order to ensure that local authorities deliver services as housing estates are developed? We do not seem to have a robust system.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that his Department is taking to address the failure of many education and training boards to keep contracts of indefinite duration and pensions up-to-date of adult education tutors considering many have contracts of indefinite duration dating back to 2015; the action that is being taken to ensure that all tutors who are entitled to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all adult education tutors receive the same salary with pension and sick pay entitlements no matter what area of the country they are working in; if the increase which is awarded to staff as set out in circular letter 0052/2021 will also apply to all of these employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that will be taken to ensure that the rate of pay for adult educator tutors in the Cork Education and Training Board is in line with the rates paid in other education and training boards; if consideration will be given to include increments for qualifications or prior service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all adult education tutors will be entitled to receive holiday pay in the same way as all other employees of the education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full number of gardaí across all ranks attached to all Garda stations in the Cork city and county area in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33676/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 893. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the completion of the new ophthalmology unit which has been built in Ballincollig, County Cork as part of the overall development in the south and south west HSE area; if funding has been provided to equip the building and to provide an adequate number of staff to provide ophthalmology services; the expected date when it will be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the results of the focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines relating to minimum setback distance for wind turbines from homes and residential areas will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/22]