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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Workers Recruitment (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is quite unsatisfactory because it is not addressing the key point of structural problems within the social work service that mean people move on quickly, which makes for a bad service. The key problems for children in care, in particular, include the high turnover of social workers. Further, there are 464 children currently in care who do not have an allocated social worker. Will the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed transfer of Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, pensioners to the single public service pension scheme. [23810/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he proposes to support the IASS pensioners in view of the significant loss incurred by such pensioners through recent State dealings and inaction. [23809/16]

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for being late. I was following most of the debate on the monitor. I have just a few questions, the first of which picks up on the Deputy Connolly's final point. In a recent response to a parliamentary question, I was informed the proportion of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund's investment in fossil fuel industries had been reduced very significantly, from 25% at the end...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. O'Kelly referred to the case in question. Is there other EIB money available for housing investment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to pursue that issue, if I may. Off-balance sheet is one aspect of it, but obviously being able to access European funds is an important aspect from the viewpoint of investment in public housing. Given the huge demand for public housing and the fact that money has not been available for that in recent years, I wonder why the NTMA would not have pursued that as a possibility. If...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: But is Mr. O'Kelly saying that it would be possible?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, but is Mr. O'Kelly saying that the NTMA was never asked to assist in developing a decent public housing programme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is very strange that that has been the case. Therefore, the perception is true that there are public European funds available for investment in housing and we are not drawing them down.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: So I am right in thinking that. Okay, thanks. Mr. O'Kelly talks about an off-balance sheet vehicle for delivering public housing, not using European funds. One of the sites earmarked for that is in my own constituency in the Finglas area, but people just do not have a clue what it is about. How developed is that proposal? The small bit of experience that there is in public private...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: As regards the three bundles of 500 houses that Mr. O'Kelly spoke about, where is that proposal currently?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Where is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Fine, but are they local authority houses?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Therefore, NAMA has a development of 500 local authority houses. Does the NTMA have any role in voicing its views on the viability of a project like that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Policy-wise it certainly does not fit-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: -----with the Government's statement on the social mix, so I just wonder if that is going forward. The other question was about PPPs and value for money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes. I mean the M3, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Would Mr. O'Kelly accept that it is not true to say that PPPs give value for money to the taxpayer? Can one make a blanket statement like that? The M3 would be an example of where it did not work in the taxpayer's interest.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2015 (21 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Just to stick with that example, perhaps Mr. McCarthy can say if there is any attempt to look back on a project like that one, which turned out to cost a lot more.