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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: At what stage will it stop becoming a theme? Let us get rid of the necessity for tendering altogether if we are not going to comply with requirements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are we going to be meeting five days a week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No; the Chairman is doing a great job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was there something on direct provision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have that in the diary for 13 April. No, I have that wrong. Is that coming up at some stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is direct provision-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- 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 Connolly: Deputy MacSharry raised a very important point. I am a former Galway city councillor. Unfortunately, he finished on a sentence that should perhaps alert us to something. He said, "Will Mr. McCarthy have a word in his ear?" It is an unfortunate choice of phrase because a word in a person's ear has perhaps led to a lot of our problems in Ireland. I am going to ask a number of questions...
- 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 Connolly: Okay. Let me state what they are, because I attempted to get them from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and it was extremely difficult. As of 30 September 2016, there were 4,720 households. Let me repeat that because I have lost the witness's attention. There were 4,720-----
- 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 Connolly: Good. There were 4,720 households, not people, on the waiting list. That means that somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 people are on the waiting list for a home in Galway city. To give a very practical example of that, I know one particular applicant who is waiting since 2002. In that space of time - 15 years - the city council has never been in a position to offer him a house. I have...
- 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 Connolly: Is Galway City Council wrong when it tells us that the housing assistance payment scheme is really the only game in town? Is it wrong when it suggests that most of the money provided in the social housing area is going directly into the pockets of landlords through that scheme?
- 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 Connolly: Sorry, I have asked whether the city council has given me a wrong interpretation.
- 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 Connolly: 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 Connolly: I thank Mr. McCarthy for that clarification. I do not mean to be parochial when I refer to Galway. We often talk about the crisis in Dublin, but the figures I have mentioned show that there is an absolute crisis in Galway. We will be lucky if 14 direct-build units are completed in Galway city this year. I refer to houses that are being built as part of a scheme of 69 houses in...
- 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 Connolly: Good. I will complete my point. I will not cut Mr. McCarthy off when he responds to me. He accepts that no houses have been built since 2009.
- 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 Connolly: We will build 14 houses this year if we are lucky. Those are the up-to-date figures. In that context, does Mr. McCarthy think the Department is taking the direct construction of houses in Galway seriously?
- 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 Connolly: Honestly, I have read the Orwellian jargon. I do not mean that personally. We have heard about the transfer of acres of land to a body in Dublin under the land aggregation scheme.
- 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 Connolly: A total of 247 ha of land have been transferred. Is that 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 Connolly: I ask Mr. McCarthy to bear with me. I am not trying to catch him out. I am trying to use plain and simple English to elucidate the nature of the housing emergency. For a long time, the land aggregation scheme under which 247 ha of land have been transferred remained the third secret of Fatima. Nobody seemed to know about the land aggregation scheme after the decision to transfer land was...
- 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 Connolly: Okay. No house has been completed. No house has been built on the small amount of land in Galway city that was transferred under the land aggregation scheme. Does Mr. McCarthy know how much land is zoned residential in Galway city?