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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Too often when something fails we are told that it is a system failure. This is central to the kind of fragmented approach being taken. It is about processes and institutional gaps. The very least the HSE should have is a register. This issue is not exclusive to the HSE, however. It is something that cuts across various bodies. It may be something we could raise with the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Where is this captured? There is a two-way relationship in respect of European Union money. We are now a net contributor. That is an aspect of it. Where is the oversight of it? A second aspect relates to fines. Do fines go through one Department? Have fines been levied in reality? Are they captured in individual departmental Estimates?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Excuse me. The statement is not on the screen and we do not have a hard copy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: How many were Part Vs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Good morning. I want to pick up on the thread relating to the figures for new houses and where they were generated. I am looking at the document provided to the committee, Rebuilding Ireland - Social Housing Delivery 2018. A note at the bottom of a table on page 2 states: "Build refers to Local Authority and Approved Housing Body construction, including traditional construction, turnkeys,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. McCarthy agree, therefore, that just over 1,050 were built directly by the 31 local authorities in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: So they were, yes. That makes it 1,200 houses plus the turnkey ones. In the coming days, can Mr. McCarthy give us a breakdown of those, perhaps by way of a note to the committee on costs per house by local authority, because there are different values in different parts of the country and we can consider the value-for-money aspect in that regard? When the Department provides these...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: But the sub-breakdown.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: It is important that we see that. Mr. McCarthy stated that the new build figure was 85% up on 2017. What was the figure in 2017? What was the Department basing it on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: How many of those were direct builds by local authorities, including regeneration?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Six hundred and twenty-six were built, then it was an 85% increase and we ended up with 1,200. It shows a bit of spin with the 85%, given the extent of the housing lists and the challenge ahead of us. It gives the impression that we are getting ahead of a crisis. We could do without presenting it in that way because it is not a fair reflection on the extent of the crisis and how that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I will stop Mr. McCarthy there because I have limited time. It is probably the Minister I need to address. Essentially, Mr. McCarthy is dealing with what the Department has been given in terms of funding and he is stating that the Department is meeting its targets.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Okay. I will skip through a few different aspects of the report. I refer to Traveller accommodation in the Appropriation Account 2017, Vote 34, A5 housing inclusion supports, which states "Savings of €4.2 million arose on traveller accommodation as a number of capital projects did not progress as anticipated." Have they progressed since because that relates to the account of 2017?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Did the projects that could not proceed in 2017, that were accounted for by the €4.2 million, proceed in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Do we know how many?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: It is not a huge amount of money in the context of the budget. How many projects accounted for the €4.2 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. McCarthy provide a note on the list of projects outlining the position, both in 2018 and now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: That is fine, if Mr. McCarthy sends us a note. I am merely trying to be efficient with the time available to me. Going back to Rebuilding Ireland, I wonder about the estimate for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan, which is a welcome initiative. Where did the estimate of €200 million over three years come from? Kildare, Fingal, Meath and Waterford, for example, have all exhausted...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Is further analysis being done on how that has played out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I presume that will work its way into policy.