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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Motor tax payments amount to €1 billion. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: So motor tax payments amounting to just over €1 billion were paid into the local government fund in 2013. Also in 2013, some €23 million was also paid into the fund in respect of household charge arrears.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: I presume the position was probably similar in 2014, with perhaps even more money being paid into the account as a result of the payment from the Minister for Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: How much was paid into the fund from local property tax?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Was it €318 million?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: How much did he pay into the fund in 2014?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: So the total amount paid into the local government fund last year was €1.476 billion. Out of that comes the €439 million for the subvention. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: That money in the fund comprises that collected through motor tax and the local property tax.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: The note before me states that the resources of the local government fund are used mainly to provide local authorities with funding for their day-to-day activities and for the upkeep of regional and local roads.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: So the shift in 2014 involved the taking of €439 million to pay the subvention to Irish Water, which is incredible.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: In the meantime, county councils are being starved of the money necessary to fund works to fill potholes on rural roads.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Given the financial mystery tour on which we have been in relation to the funding of Irish Water, where the money comes from and how it is accounted for and all the rest of it, and the comments made by the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Watt, that there could be a role for the Committee on Public Accounts on the general accountability of this money -...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Mr. McCarthy is right. The local authority was involved in some way as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: Will someone untangle the mess on this spend rather than leaving it parked there? This is all I am asking. With respect, the Garda investigation can go on, but someone has to stop the deterioration of the property to the extent that there will be further losses to the taxpayer. Surely this is not a big ask of Mr. Heffernan's Department. His Department looks over the other Departments....

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: It is about being helpful in this instance. There are also others involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: I am asking that he would look at formalising that informal basis. I cannot do so as Chairman of the committee because I am told it is outside the remit and it is in legislation. Mr. Watt sees the merit of it. I think most people looking at this debate this morning would see the merit of it. I am simply asking somebody in the system of management of public funds in this country to take...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: When one is on a radio programme, whether local or national, something that unnerves one a little is when the presenter says "by the way a text message has just come in". We are like a radio or television programme because people text in. This fellow says they are not potholes any more, they are water reservoirs, brilliant. He was speaking about the road tax. If Mr. Heffernan would not...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services (5 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: That is agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (10 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: 394. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the range of medical issues with which that person must deal; and if he will expedite the matter. [5500/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Feb 2015)

John McGuinness: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was removed from the waiting list at University Hospital Waterford where that person was to be seen as a matter of urgency by an ear, nose and throat specialist; if the four to five years that person is on the waiting list will now be considered in the context of an early appointment as the person...