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- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Good
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Disruptive strategy is a good name for it. Mr. McDonagh spoke of problems with regard to the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, and I understand he will address this with Deputy Kelly. Perhaps Mr. McDonagh will elaborate on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: As I said earlier, the information that has been discussed illustrates the absolute scandal that is facing the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: We are told by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government that money is not a problem. We were told by NAMA that there was going to be upfront capital provided and a leasing arrangement with regard to working collaboratively with local authorities to try to realise the potential of 7,000 units, and they took up 2,717.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)
Shane Cassells: I welcome the opportunity to speak with my colleagues on the issue that is dominating the public forums of debate in this country. What strikes me most from those discussions is that what should unite us is a real desire among us all to deal with this issue because no matter what political badge we might wear on election day, the reality of homelessness, the pressure of renting, and the...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)
Shane Cassells: I will tell Members where he and members of the Sinn Féin Party were. I travelled 200 yards around the corner and there he was with a bundle of leaflets on the street in Athboy, handing out Sinn Féin's diatribes and propaganda. He could not walk the 200 yards to meet the 32 families who were given the keys to their new homes that morning. I find it rich that Sinn Féin...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)
Shane Cassells: The party does spin like it is going out of fashion. It does not have any sense of conviction. The example of Deputy Peadar Tóibín handing out propaganda on the street, while families were being given homes, sums it up and shows that the party is not fit to be represented in this Chamber.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: I welcome Mr. Fraser. I want to touch on expanding on the net programme costs of the Presidency and the true reflection of the course born. The Comptroller and Auditor General's short opening statement refers to the appropriation accounts and gross expenditure of €3.6 million but, as has been pointed out by Mr. McCarthy himself, when one goes to page 7 of the appropriation accounts,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Mr. Fraser mentioned that the €2.4 million accounted for events as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: That is what I am saying. The devil is in the detail. I am only asking my question in the context of Deputy Connolly's questions. We are discussing an amount in the OPW's Vote that is similar to expenditure relating to the President's Establishment. I am trying to get a true reflection of the cost. Officials from the OPW will appear before us in a couple of weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Is it fully accountable for how that amount is arrived at?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: I will revert to the OPW, but let us park it for a second. The Comptroller and Auditor General raised the issue. Let us turn to the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality in terms of An Garda Síochána. How was that expenditure figure arrived at? I presume all of it relates to wages.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Okay. If there was a security review at the Áras, given how someone was able to drive through the gates last week and go to the President's office to say "Hello", and the Commissioner's analysis called for additional security, would that request be forwarded by the Office of the President to the Minister for Justice and Equality for appraisal and how would it be signed off on? Do the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: I understand that. I am trying-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: I appreciate that. Cumulative expenses of €4.6 million are not falling directly under the Office of the President but are being spent on that office. It is a bit like local government, with money being spent on other areas. Is it the case that the Garda Commissioner would, for example, consider last week's situation of someone going straight through the gates and saying "Hello" to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: No, but it was €344,000 the previous year. I am trying to understand how the figure could have changed from one year to the next and whether a demand was made by the Office of the President for a certain amount of expenditure to cater for a particular event, for example.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: No, I never asked about it. I am only trying to understand the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Shane Cassells: Okay.