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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Before we make a final decision, I would point out that on page 2 again of the same letter, it kindly sends on information I asked about in respect of security of tenure. It was always my understanding that people had security of tenure for life, subject to complying with the tenancy agreement, and that there was no difference between being housed under a voluntary body and a local authority...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is what we need to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They have it for life.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not even know what the figures are and I think we need clarification.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is not so much the remark as that it has not given us the information. It has told us how the RTB functions and what is in the legislation. We want a breakdown of the number of tenants who have tenure for life, subject to complying with their tenancy agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The RTB was only to give extra protection to a tenant, and it applied only to private tenants until these bodies came under its aegis as well. That did not change the leases; it was extra protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It will apply to whatever houses they got in a particular way under NAMA or something, if they only got them for a short time. We do not know. We need to tease it out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In addition, returning to what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, we should ask how many other units exist that are not accounted for here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: At the end of this, we will have a report on housing. There have been figures bandied about and disputed, on which we got some clarification only in the last few weeks. It is primarily going to be a factual report so that we can also look at it from the point of view of value for money. In simple terms, that is what we are trying to achieve.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Garda Benevolent Fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is in that context. I beg the Chairman's pardon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know the details but I have read the letter and there is a bigger issue, which is raised by the memo. Somebody was concerned and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General analysed it in a limited way. The president said he would do the same tomorrow but that is where we come in. When risks are brought to someone's attention there is an extra burden on that person but he is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There is an issue over the statement that this would happen again today all over again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The statement has been confirmed in the letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Leaving aside what is in the memo, we are being told that if the situation arose again today it would be dealt with in the same way. That is a problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I would hope the HEA would come back on this as the oversight body.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know where we stand in regard to the issue of accountability.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It ran over-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did we write to the relevant party?