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- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (13 Jun 2023)
Alan Dillon: 1404. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider providing support for the creation of a broadband connection point (BCP) at a location (details supplied), given that her Department has already granted funds for a remote working hub under the town-and-village renewal scheme (TVRS); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28465/23]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (1 Jun 2023)
Alan Dillon: I thank the Minister for his response. I acknowledge the work the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his officials in the Department of Transport are doing and the commitment they have to delivering public transport that is fit for purpose. As the Minister, Deputy Harris, has acknowledged, we have seen nearly a fourfold increase since 2016 to over €42 million this year in terms of the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (1 Jun 2023)
Alan Dillon: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter for debate. I thank the Minister, Deputy Harris, for being here in the Chamber in the absence of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I raise this matter to bring attention to the critical issue of public transport in rural areas, especially in my constituency of Mayo. It is imperative that the Government continues to invest...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests and thank them very much for being here. First, I want to focus on affordable housing. Mr. Dole referred to the delivery of nearly 1,800 affordable homes in the past year. He also noted that the delivery of affordable housing was below target. What was last year's target for affordable homes, and what were the main reasons for the shortfall?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Can Mr. Doyle provide breakdown in respect of the 1,800 affordable homes delivered last year, the affordable purchase scheme and cost-rental homes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: How is the Department tracking against the target of 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by 2030?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Doyle. He mentioned the local authority affordable purchase scheme. Maybe I will focus on that. How many local authorities have been excluded from the national affordable housing five-year delivery targets or have all local authorities set targets regarding the delivery of affordable housing schemes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: For how many?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: On the remaining local authorities which are outside, can the Department provide a reason why these are outside?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: I will take my own local authority as the example. It certainly is in a perplexing predicament, where there are no targets set for affordable housing, but there are affordability issues. Numerous exercises have carried out in respect of this. The original assessment was based on whether the second-hand homes for sale within a local authority were at a level deemed to be below the 5%...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Does Ms Timmons agree now that this was a flawed system with regard to the 5% threshold?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Is the Department going to revise the targets? The Department needs to set targets like this-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: The Department has set targets for local authority social housing, so why will it not set targets for affordable housing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: When will the Department do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Take my county as an example. The Department has approved an affordable housing scheme in Westport. It has received a submission for Castlebar regarding an affordability issue; I hope that gets approval. Again, we see that the local authority needs to be encouraged to set ambitious targets to deliver affordable housing schemes. I will move on to the ongoing viability challenges Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: How much is being allocated this year and next year for serviced sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: How much of that has been committed to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Given the serious housing crisis we face and the failure to spend the allocated housing budget, resulting in a total of €382 million having been returned to the Exchequer over the past four years, what specific programmes of expenditure contributed to this underspend?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: Will Mr. Doyle give a breakdown for the different programmes in which there has been an underspend? How does the Department plan to rectify this when setting capital budgets in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) Alan Dillon: It seems the Department is setting unrealistic targets. It is failing to deliver year on year.