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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 Connolly: Okay. I have been told by the city manager that two thirds of an 18 ha parcel of land, which is owned by the city council and zoned residential, is frozen because of the proposed N6 project. We bought this land at the same prices mentioned by Deputy MacSharry, or perhaps higher. Is the Department aware of this?
- 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 am really just elucidating and trying to expose the difficulties. If we do not analyse the problem properly, we cannot possibly have a solution.
- 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: There are between 10,000 and 15,000 people on the housing waiting list in Galway city. We will not build any houses this year. If we are lucky, we will complete 14, but I do not think we will. Two thirds of a parcel of land that is zoned residential is frozen and cannot be touched. This increases the intensity of the problem. I understand there are difficulties between the Department 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 Connolly: While I do not think there are any mala fides in this regard, I do not accept that there is ongoing proactive planning to address the housing crisis. A great deal of money is going to approved housing bodies. As far as I can see, no money is going to the city council in Galway. Mr. McCarthy can clarify this for me. I said earlier that the housing assistance payment is the only game 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: There is absolutely nowhere in Galway city where a property can be rented for that price. In reality, €575 is paid directly into the landlord's pocket with a discretionary 20% extra going into his or her pocket. In addition, the tenant will pay the differential rent to the council. He or she will pay the difference between the sum of €575 and the market rent into the...
- 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 am not arguing about the limits. I am arguing about the effect of the limits and what it actively and legally condones. The €575 plus 20% goes straight into the landlord's bank account. The person must pay the differential rent to the council, and rightly so. In addition, he or she must pay the extra to bring the figure up to the market rent, which is anything between...
- 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: Does the Secretary General accept that the scheme actively promotes the payment of cash to landlords?
- 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.
- 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: How does a person get a place if he or she does not pay the difference? How can a person get a place in Galway city if he or she does not pay the difference between what is permitted under the scheme and the market rent?
- 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: The Secretary General should listen to my reply. The person cannot get a house at market rent unless he or she makes up the difference. Does the Secretary General agree that the housing assistance payment actively promotes that system?
- 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: That is even more frightening because that means the tenant has to come up with more money. Let us consider the limit of €575. Nobody in Galway can get a place for €575. The Secretary General does not agree with me so I shall move on. I have a few questions on staffless libraries. Laois County Council has refused to introduce staffless libraries, Dublin does not seem...
- 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: It is not my fault but the Chair is looking at me hoping that I shall stop. I want an answer from the Secretary General. Did the Department carry out a cost analysis of this proposal? I have read what the Department has said but the staff members have claimed the opposite. For all intents and purposes, it is staffless libraries but the Secretary General disagrees and that is fine. Did...
- 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 have all of that information. Has the Department carried out a cost analysis on the system? Has the Secretary General figures for us in terms of the cost of introducing this new system?
- 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: That is okay. Can the Secretary General come back to me?
- 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: It is okay. The Secretary General can supply me with the figures.
- 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: In terms of the Traveller accommodation plan in Galway city, is the Secretary General aware of the up-to-date status of what is happening in Galway?
- 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 it correct that funding has gone back to the Department as result of various councils not using it?
- 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: What funding for Galway city has been returned and in what year?