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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)

Alan Dillon: Has the Department engaged with Revenue to ascertain the levels of income of some HAP tenants? Has it undertaken that process? If not, why? Is that something the Department would be willing to do?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: I am focusing on HAP payments to landlords.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: In regard to the Department's assessment of the quality of rental properties that are availing of HAP, does the Department undertake a review of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: How many-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: How many HAP tenancies are on the Department's books?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: The Department only inspects, possibly, one third of properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: Has the Department a timeline for that? How will it happen? Are there fines to be paid in 2022? If so, when does the Department expect them to be paid, and at what cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: When does Galway County Council expect to initiate planning enforcement proceedings against the development? Can fines paid to date be recouped from the ESB?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: Does the Department intend to recoup the fines it has paid to the European Commission?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: That is an issue in that the funding could have been used for other activities. I want to move on to the cost of the housing assistance payment, HAP, to the Exchequer. I see from the appropriation accounts that €465 million was allocated in 2020. Notwithstanding the increased costs in the rental market, that the maximum rent payable under the HAP scheme has not been revised since...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: Can Mr. Doyle outline specific improvements?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: I thank Ms Stapleton very much for that update. May I focus specifically on the extent of top-up payments that HAP tenants must make to landlords? At this point in time, early in 2022, all Deputies will say the number of calls to their offices from tenants who have been subjected to top-up payments associated with increased rents has been enormous. What mechanisms are in place within the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests and I thank them for the briefing notes and the opening statement supplied in advance. It is a broad appropriation account, and we could probably spend a week delving into the important matters that it covers. I compliment the Secretary General, the Department and its officials on delivering on the work programme. It is extremely ambitious and the commitment to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 38. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the provision of a helipad on Inishturk island; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 55. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of connected hubs in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8780/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the significant changes that Castlebar Garda station has undergone in terms of additional resources, hubs, business supports since 2019, when it was assigned the divisional headquarters for the new north-west region covering counties Mayo, Roscommon and Longford. [8678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 338. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding that will be allocated in 2022 for works on Achill island; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 339. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding that will be allocated in 2022 for community centres in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8782/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (16 Feb 2022)

Alan Dillon: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if allowances can be made for the small number of inshore fishery vessels to access the Brexit Inshore Fisheries business model adjustment scheme as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8682/22]