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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Gosh. I am sure they were rubbing their hands when they got the funding so easy, given the exorbitant rental charge and the profits they are going to make. The remit of the HBFI was not to distort the market. Of the €300 million, some €190 million of that went to those cuckoo funds or developers that had the forward purchase agreements. It does not seem to add up. What were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I have asked this several times. Were they requested to produce refusals from banks, left, right and centre, before they came to the HBFI?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The HBFI just handed it over. Out of that €300 million from the momentum fund, how many homes will be affordable and how many social?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Out of the €274 million, we have 85 that are social housing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The rest are gone to cuckoo funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, cuckoo funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: I want to come back to the momentum fund. Ms Deering said it was set up in case funding from the mainstream banks would be constrained during Covid. At the same time, HBFI had no checks and balances when the big developers were applying for funding. It did not ask for a single sheet of paper that would show they had already been refused or had any difficulty whatsoever in getting the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Everyone under the sun knows that if there were forward purchase agreements already in place, they would have been huge things to go to the bank with. They would have been sure of getting funding but HBFI did not ask any questions whatsoever. It allocated €300 million out of the €730 million to that. The largest tranche of funding given out was €94 million, which was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Ms Deering said that they would not be built if HBFI did not step in right there and then, but did HBFI ask for evidence that the developer had been refused by a bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Sorry, forgive me, I might be confused here but how can Ms Deering say that if HBFI had not stepped in, there and then, that these developments would not happen when it had not even asked if the developer had been to a bank, had been refused and for evidence of same? How does that tally?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The correspondence we have received from the IHRB differs greatly from the previous correspondence we got from the same body in November 2021. In that communication, it was stated that the installation of CCTV would have been completed at all the racecourses prior to the commencement of the 2022 season. The correspondence we have received now, however, states that an estimated date cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, that is fine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: The Government's retrofitting scheme is geared towards homeowners but there is very little thought given to and even less protection for renters in private rented accommodation. If a landlord decides to retrofit his or her property, he or she can ask the tenant to move out. One might ask where the tenant will go. When that work is done and the BER rating has improved in the property,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Post Office Network (1 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: 330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount that went to An Post from television licence fee receipts in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [11323/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadcasting Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yesterday, we had Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, at the media committee. She was very clear about the responsibility of Ireland in terms of regulating social media effectively and having a regulator with real teeth. She stressed time and time again the need to ensure sufficient resources are available to address these issues because it is a completely new regulatory environment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: We have a lot to offer and it is nonsensical that tourism experiences stop at the Border. Recently, I met with Tourism Ireland, and I got the distinct impression that it was put on the back-burner. I ask the Minister to flag up to Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland the simple things I pointed out, those no-brainer issues, such as why the Wild Atlantic Way cannot be extended along the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadcasting Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the establishment of the media commission; the expected timelines and other relevant details; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10217/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadcasting Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: My question was prompted by comments from the Minister on the establishment of the media commission, which indicated that the process would begin ahead of the passing of the Bill. The committee has corresponded with the Minister, as it appears that we are in a vacuum currently in terms of the commission and the Bill. We know that the staff of the BAI will be transferred, but is the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: 7. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has had discussions with Tourism Ireland regarding the extension of Fáilte Ireland marketing brands including Ireland’s Ancient East, Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and the Wild Atlantic Way to include counties in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10218/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (24 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: Has the Minister had discussions with Tourism Ireland regarding the extension of Fáilte Ireland marketing grants, including Ireland's Ancient East, Ireland's Hidden Heartlands and the Wild Atlantic Way to include counties in the North of Ireland? Will she make a statement on the matter?