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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: What does that say about the Department? I will come back to my original point. HAP was designed to shove people into private rented accommodation. There have been no reviews of rent payments. There is a scandalous inspection regime. No information has been gathered on the number of tenants paying top-ups or on the value of these payments. Given the rates, any income or support a person...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: It has been seven years.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: It has not been reviewed since 2015.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: It is still five years in which the Department has done nothing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: I will come back to the State subsidies to private rental properties. In total, €893 million was spent on rent subsidies in 2021, including HAP, RAS and long-term leasing etc. Does the Department believe we could reach the €1 billion figure for rent subsidies in 2022?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Imelda Munster: Given that €893 million was paid on rent subsidies in 2021, does Mr. Doyle believe there is a very real possibility the Department could reach the €1 billion figure in rent subsidies in 2022?
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: 209. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital grants will be open for applications. [8961/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that retired civil servants with qualifying pensions have not yet received the 1% pay increase granted in October 2021 which current civil servants have already received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8536/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: 216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8523/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: 217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for FreeStyle Libre that were submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; his plans to remove the age restriction on FreeStyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: I will ask my questions for all three groups together to allow time to answer. Ms Traynor of SAOI referred to the recommendations made by Fair Plé relating to conditions for receiving funding. I ask Ms Kennelly to give her opinion on this and also to state whether the Arts Council would consider the introduction of these recommendations. Could Ms Traynor confirm that SAOI was not...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: Ms Kennelly said the Arts Council was implementing certain aspects. I did not get a direct response on whether the Arts Council would consider the introduction of the recommendations made by Fair Plé in their totality. I would like an answer to that. Regarding what SAOI has outlined, should the committee write to the Minister asking her to address the matter of the independent body...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: Yes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: What about the recommendations by Fair Plé?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: Yes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: I bid a warm welcome to everyone. I will ask my questions first as we have just five minutes and then I will get individual responses from the witnesses. My first question is for Ms Ní Chonchubhair or Mr. Naughton. Regarding the Arts & Disability Ireland Connect scheme, how many grants are generally awarded annually and is the funding available adequate to deal with demand?...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: The final question was to Dr. Murphy about how the organisation is funded and what the annual costs are to provide the services.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: Yes, I thank Dr. Murphy.
- Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)
Imelda Munster: The policy of inviting and incentivising investment funds into the Irish housing market has been disastrous for a generation of young people in Ireland. People are in the ridiculous position of trying to compete with investment funds that can swoop in and buy up hundreds and even thousands of homes at inflated prices. This is pushing up the price of housing and contributing to the current...