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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is newish.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is a common excuse.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: We could talk about this all evening but I just wanted the top five differences between the two.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: Okay. Mr. McManus is talking about that aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: It goes back into the pot.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: At the end of it, when one leaves the house that the AHB has provided for them because they have moved on to the next world or whatever, does the AHB own that asset at the end?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: The AHBs' business model is to provide social housing at the minute. Are there plans to expand that remit into affordable housing and perhaps even accommodation for the ageing population? Are the AHBs looking at that aspect or is it purely social housing? Perhaps that has been answered while I was not here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: I know but I am just trying to get to the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: I am hypersensitive about charities to be honest.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Kate O'Connell: I get concerned when charities refer to people as markets. To me there is a contradiction there. That is it, I have found out enough. I thank the witnesses for their time.
- 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) Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. How many households are supported by the Department through the help-to-buy scheme, HAP, Rebuilding Ireland home loans, acquisitions and new builds? I will move on to the next question if someone is getting the answer for Mr. McCarthy. I hear from my colleague beside me that the help-to-buy scheme has been a great success. At the time, there...
- 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) Kate O'Connell: These are homes. We are not counting people. These are units
- 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) Kate O'Connell: If we decided tomorrow to get rid of HAP, what would it do to that figure next year?
- 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) Kate O'Connell: I am more concerned about what we would do with the families. Where would we put them? How many families-----
- 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) Kate O'Connell: What I am getting at is that HAP almost seems to be like a bad thing in some people's minds. If we just got rid of it to be populist, I assume we would put the money into building houses. However, the problem is that it takes time to build houses. What do we, therefore, with the families in the interim period? I have failed to find an answer to this question about what we would do with...
- 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) Kate O'Connell: -----85,000 are on the street
- 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) Kate O'Connell: This means that 10,000 people are now in homes funded by themselves and supported by the scheme who otherwise may not be.
- 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) Kate O'Connell: We could potentially add these to the 85,000 people we mentioned a minute ago.
- 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) Kate O'Connell: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. McCarthy but I will hone in on something in respect of refurbishment. It is important to say that buildings need maintenance. There is a certain argument out there in this regard. I understand that and there are landlords who use these reasons to get rid of people, but there are also genuine people out there who need to maintain their buildings. I hear from...
- 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) Kate O'Connell: We will leave it for a second because I do not want to take up too much time. I want to ask about interruptions in the supply chain. When Private Members' Bills come through the Oireachtas, they sometimes create uncertainty. I refer to things like the Anti-Evictions Bill 2018. As we saw to some extent with the review of Rebuilding Ireland a few years ago and the changes in rules in...