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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. I just want to make sure we do not forget it. I do not mind when we deal with it, but we should deal with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Alternatively we could deal with it today in private session. We have not dealt with it and it was a very interesting and informative letter. We should be seen to make a decision on it, one way or another.
- 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 Connolly: Fáilte romhaibh. I have an awful temptation to state that we have gender equality today and might get some solution to the housing problem. I say that tongue in cheek but given the seriousness of the problem, I should not, really. Can Mr. John McCarthy tell us how many people are homeless today? What is the exact figure? "Morning Ireland" had a figure this morning. If memory serves...
- 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 Connolly: Of those, how many are children?
- 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 Connolly: I put the same question in respect of Galway.
- 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 Connolly: That is okay. On 4 February, Galway had 50 families in private emergency accommodation. This figure is from the city council. I am placing my questions in context. There were 20 notices of termination in quarter 4 of 2018 and the cost of private emergency accommodation in 2018 was €2.455 million, which sum is projected to increase to €3.57 million. The supply of suitable...
- 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 Connolly: I hear Mr. John McCarthy's protestation. I will ask a number of questions on housing, but first I want to look at the accounts and at Vote 34. Can we look at governance issues and internal financial controls on page 5? I want to go quickly through this. There were internal financial control issues in relation to the management of accommodation and homelessness funding. Weaknesses were...
- 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 Connolly: I see the issues. They are listed out. Is there a procurement register in place which includes the expiry dates? Is a procedures manual in place? How much money was involved?
- 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 Connolly: Good.
- 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 Connolly: The money amounted to €400,000, three have been regularised and one is in process. Is there a revised procedural manual in place?
- 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 Connolly: In relation to homeless funding, how much money was involved here? Issues were identified here also.
- 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 Connolly: That is right. I am just seeking a reply. I am reading it and I do not want to take up my time. On homelessness funding, an internal audit of the management of homelessness during 2017 noted a number of areas regarding control of oversight, which is this committee's function. What has been done in relation to that and how much public funding was involved? Have the protocols been reviewed...
- 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 Connolly: What is the position regarding those actions?
- 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 Connolly: Significantly. What has not been acted on? That might be easier.
- 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 Connolly: Great. Well done. I thank Mr. John McCarthy. Staying on those accounts, I will move back to look at the urban development fund. In fact, I will leave that for a moment and come back to it if I have the time. I might come back in the second round. I want to go to the housing assistance payment, or HAP, and all of the money, including HAP, that is going to sustain an unsustainable private...
- 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 Connolly: That is good. Do those 71,858 households exclude HAP?
- 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 Connolly: Just listen to my question because I want it clear. HAP has grown and involves a huge figure to which I will come in a moment. I think 43,000 households are on HAP. Are they excluded from the waiting list figure?
- 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 Connolly: Good.
- 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 Connolly: I thank Mr. John McCarthy. We have the number given there of 71,858 and a further figure of 43,000 households on HAP. As such, we are at over 100,000. They are not being counted on the waiting list.
- 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 Connolly: That is my interpretation too. A terrible law was brought in under the previous Government to the effect that HAP was the only game in town and that one was considered adequately housed under it. We have been there before. Mr. John McCarthy does not have to disagree with me but that was the legislation brought in. HAP is the only game in town. We asked repeatedly what would happen when...