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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Do we know how much it is?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I hope I will get it separately from Mr. McCarthy. In his opening statement, Mr. McCarthy spoke about the 13,375 who had their household needs met under the programme in 2015. I presume some of that would have come from the housing assistance payment, HAP.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is a recurring cost and it is temporary. Most would be accounted for by long-term leasing and not much by new house builds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They are not necessarily new because if they are transferred from rent supplement to HAP, they are not new people. It is a new transaction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The bulk of this is a recurring cost, a temporary, albeit a little more secure, arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Much of this is like a three card trick, the motor tax fund, Irish Water and property tax. There are more three card tricks in this Department than in any other. It gives the impression that 13,375 people have a permanent housing solution, but that is not necessarily the case. There is a very significant reliance on existing housing stock to satisfy that housing need through the HAP and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Some local authorities, and Mr. McCarthy said these are mainly in the big urban centres and commuter belt areas, are allowed to hold on to 80% of their local property tax but they are told that a portion of that 80% must be spent on housing and roads. Is that not correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to get this clear: at a given time it was decided that they could hold onto 80%. Can they retain more than the 80% if it is spent on roads or housing? I am not clear at all about what Mr. McCarthy is saying.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 15 November 2016, the status of a pilot scheme for the re-opening of Garda stations; if the six stations for re-opening on a pilot basis in line with the commitment in the programme for a partnership Government have been identified; the dates on which they will re-open; if the wider review being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of children on local authority housing lists according to the last count, by authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10821/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the basis on which the qualifying income thresholds for local authorities are set; when these were last set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of landlords who have dropped out of the rental accommodation scheme in each of the past three years, by authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Archives (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider establishing a consolidated mechanism for record keeping, in view of the fact that Government Departments, State agencies and the broader public service are responsible for their own off-site file storage and archiving arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's role in providing financial assistance to any other Department's Brexit unit; his consideration of the costs associated with each Department's Brexit unit when allocating each Department's annual budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11064/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs associated with his Department's Brexit unit; the number of staff allocated to that unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amounts collected per year from every tolled road here, broken down by annual toll amount collected per toll facility for the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Private Partnerships Cost (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in 2015 and 2016 in respect of public private partnership, PPP, operational payments as compensation to PPP companies in view of the fact that toll income was less than anticipated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10826/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Private Partnerships Data (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid to tolling companies in respect of shadow tolls per year for the past five years, broken down by company and toll locations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10832/17]