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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: If issues are flagged, will Ms McPhillips furnish the committee with-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I think we need to have the Department back in on this. There are too many unanswered questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: To talk about the scheme in general terms, Ms McPhillips does not have to name specific schemes but where issues were flagged up years ago, will she furnish us with details of what follow-up took place and what steps the Department took to rectify them? What measures were taken to ensure that the residencies were rescinded after a review of two years, whether the applications were stalled or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I would like Ms McPhillips to furnish us with the details of that in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Could we be furnished with a list of projects which were stalled or stopped?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Imelda Munster: I will have to be brief. I will ask my questions and hopefully we can get an answer in that slim time slot. I would first raise the issue of the basic income for the arts scheme. Just before it was rolled out, the Minister gave a promise that she would work closely with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure disabled artists could participate. At the time I do not think any...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Imelda Munster: I will have to be fairly swift with this. Mr. Joyce made reference to the culture and creativity strategy and how there was no meaningful engagement with Travellers on that, and that Travellers did not fare in any way, shape or form and got very little of that fairly sizeable funding of €6.6 million. He also said the procedure for getting funding through the local authority community...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: I want first to touch on the serious issues arising out of housing adaptation grants, housing for older people and mobility aid grants with Mr. Doyle and the issues that have arisen primarily due to lack of funding. Does he accept that there is serious underfunding in respect of those grants?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Can Ms Timmons give us details as to what the proposal-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: I want to ask about how funding is distributed. Year on year, does the Department contact local authorities to find out the number of applications, the waiting lists, etc., and match funding accordingly, or is it just that the grant is issued, the amount is there for the grants and it is divvied up between councils with no consultation and no regard to the number of applicants, waiting lists...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Okay, so if a county council were to say this year that it is still trying to wade through applications from 2021, what sort of additional funding would be given for that? Would the Department give sufficient funding to clear the backlog right back to the applications in 2021 and then sufficient funding to cover for this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: That seems strange because, to give Ms Timmons the example of Louth County Council for the minute, it has 610 applications. Hundreds of them are priority 1, that is, people who have had strokes, people who have serious mobility issues, people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, or people in need of a wet room or a downstairs bathroom. The council has 610 on the waiting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: That is just one serious case. There are people who cannot get into a bath or climb stairs and are waiting on downstairs wet rooms and stairlifts but cannot get any. How is the Department going to rectify this situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Louth County Council has drawn down every cent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Doyle give a commitment to provide sufficient funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: We are getting this spiel the whole time. I have just said that there are 610 people waiting, hundreds of whom are priority 1. These are people who cannot climb the stairs and do not have downstairs bedrooms or who cannot get into a bath and do not have downstairs wet rooms. Many of us know people in such situations, for example, people with COPD who cannot even attempt to climb stairs,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Due to the scheme's underfunding, there are people who had strokes last week or limbs amputated who are being told to apply in January 2024 and that the council might get to them in 2025 because it does not have funding.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Did the review find it was underfunded? There was a 2.3% increase last year, but building costs increased by 16.2%. This is nonsense and nowhere near enough. The Department has to sort this mess out and accept that these schemes are not funded adequately. I would like to hear back as soon as possible – not for myself, but for those who are sitting at home waiting for their houses...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: Can I get an absolute commitment? Often, we do not hear back-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: How do the witnesses propose to address the issue? Will they correspond directly with me and the county council-----