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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (6 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1935. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to discussions at EU level regarding the potential partial liberalisation of the water market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34947/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme (6 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1936. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding landlords that do not want to enter the housing assistance payment scheme with a local authority but have existing tenants that are in receipt of rental supplement; if they can continue on same; the engagement he has with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to ensure that some...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (6 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1942. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing assistant payment scheme at the end of each year from 2014 to 2018; the number of families on the scheme at the end of June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35074/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Register (6 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1944. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the eligibility of persons who are homeless for inclusion on the register of electors in order to participate in elections; the process and systems in place to allow persons to obtain polling cards for elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35107/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (6 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1946. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approvals given to local authorities regarding unsold affordable houses that did not sell at the time and approval was given to them to be leased to an approved housing body; if local authorities can now sell these houses to the original approved housing body or another approved housing body in view of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. Apologies have been received from Deputies Deering and Aylward. Are the minutes of the meetings on the meeting of 20 June, 27 June and 4 July agreed? Agreed. I do not think there is any matter arising from the minutes that we will not deal with during the course of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it but we will hold it over.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for discussion at the next meeting. No. 2309 B is from Mr. Jim Gibson, acting CEO, Tusla, dated 9 July 2019 providing information requested by the committee at a recent meeting. We asked about the difference in remuneration for social workers recruited by Tusla as opposed to those employed via agencies. He supplied a table, which includes a social worker on the first...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I do not understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It says all private fostering agencies funded by Tusla are currently outside procurement and it is now undertaking procurement-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Obviously, if there are different rates by different agencies-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We need clarification on that. We also asked Tusla for a breakdown of the €18 million budget for the 121 family resource centres around the country. That has been provided. We asked for a breakdown of the family resource centres by county, which has been provided in the appendix. We sought a note on the operation of children and young person services committees, CYPSCs, which is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for the details of all the fostering agencies and the amounts involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We specifically only asked about one, and perhaps it is the main agency. I do not know, but we will ask for further elaboration. We will note and publish the correspondence and seek further clarification on those items. This may be a good time to note that we want to put a procedure in place in relation to correspondence received during the summer. We cannot have a situation where...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will give the secretariat a holiday. We give it a few days at the end of the month.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is being circulated on the basis of it not having been published and I would ask people to respect that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The dates are around the end of July or the beginning of August, which is in three weeks' time-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----and then as early in September as possible. We will probably not receive much in August.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are talking about category A, although there will probably be no correspondence as there will be no opening statements, and category B which is from Accounting Officers. We are not talking about category C correspondence from individuals, which we never publish. We are talking about items that would be in the public arena arising from our public meetings, namely, category B. We will do...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am on the bottom of page 5. If any member wants to take up this issue, that would be useful as we approach the next budget because this information can be used in discussions of tax matters. It is not exclusive to the Committee of Public Accounts. We recommended separating the carry-forward losses for corporation tax between losses forward and capital allowances. We asked Revenue to...