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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Nov 2018)
Alan Farrell: I thank Deputy Mitchell for her question. It is pertinent given the discussion we had in committee yesterday. I understand the Minister attended a conference where the potential impact of this proposed legislation on other sites was widely discussed. Will the Minister offer some clarity to the House? As Chair of the Minister's line committee, the Joint Committee on Children and Youth...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Alan Farrell: We debated the issue last week.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Alan Farrell: We debated it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Alan Farrell: Deputy Coppinger was not here.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Alan Farrell: Deputy Coppinger was not here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: I thank our guests for attending and for their efforts in their various Departments. The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in 2017 spent about €1.4 billion, I believe, of which €230 million-odd on rents. Could the witnesses indicate to the committee how much was recouped in terms of the receipt of tenants' rental payments to the State? I ask the witnesses...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: In 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy could come back on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: What qualifies a body to become an approved housing body? What checks and balances are performed in order for it to become an approved housing body?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Does the Department have oversight over this? Is there a secondary oversight or a parliamentary oversight over this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Functional oversight would involve the housing committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Mr. O'Connor is saying there is no oversight function.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: He is saying it could be introduced into committee, for instance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: I refer to the oversight, the auditing, the probing of how AHBs are spending their money and the figure I asked for, which, again, the witnesses can provide in due course: the number of properties and the cost of the delivery of those properties through AHBs and then our own direct delivery, either through the Department or local authorities. I would be interested to know those figures and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: What about the number of dwellings?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: While Mr. McCarthy gets that, I will move on. In recent days there has been quite a stir about one particular contractor hired by the Department of Education and Skills and also, I believe, by local authorities or perhaps directly, namely, Western Building Systems. I understand it has delivered some social housing. How confident are the witnesses that those units, whenever they were...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Have they been inspected?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Post-2014 then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Alan Farrell: Mr. O'Connor is confident they are-----