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- 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) Marc MacSharry: It might also be down to the local authority not having staff.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Would it not be fair to say that larger local authorities such as Fingal, with €100 million on deposit at any given time, would be in a position to supplement the staff costs and so on to get to that design stage and get over those initial humps without drawing down the 5% and the 10%? That would not hold it up. Would it not be fair to say that local authorities such as Sligo are at...
- 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) Marc MacSharry: I know, but some do not have the money while others do. Some have Dublin Airport in their rates base. Others do not.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: I have two more questions. Has there been any change at a policy level nationally? In his opening address Mr. McCarthy mentioned prevention and matching families with need with appropriate accommodation before they become homeless. Is he aware that many local authorities are telling people they can do nothing for them until they are declared homeless?
- 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) Marc MacSharry: For example, in terms of a marriage break-up as a result of domestic violence. If their name is on a mortgage, the local authority can do nothing for them because the rule is that they own a house, therefore, they do not have a housing need and it cannot look after them.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Will Mr. McCarthy inform us 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) Marc MacSharry: And the mortgage arrears situation where it was a house surrender. If somebody owned the house but they surrendered it because they could no longer afford it, is it the case that they cannot be considered for housing? What is the status of these guidelines? Is it open to the local authority to interpret them or is it obliged to follow them?
- 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) Marc MacSharry: It is something we all come up against in our constituencies so it would be interesting to get the clear statutory position on that. If there is not one, perhaps-----
- 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) Marc MacSharry: That is the problem. Someone must be separated four years before a divorce is possible.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Even in that, it can take several years to get a judicial separation, never mind a divorce. Someone has to be separated for a minimum of four years before they can get a divorce. There are anomalies there that we could usefully examine. Part of the commitment in Rebuilding Ireland is not just to build houses but to try to buy ones where there is value and so on, which is reasonable. Many...
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Could the Department look at issuing a direction to local authorities that they must consider buying in former schemes? One example of which I am aware - I acknowledge that it might date from a couple of years back - relates to five houses in a local authority scheme that were available for possibly €130,000 and the relevant local authority buying a single house for €250,000.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: We do not mind being lambasted once we get delivery. If we could have five houses for the price of one, surely that is basic common sense. Surely the Department would be amenable to issuing directions along those lines.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: In the context of management by those in the Custom House, I am, quite honestly, stunned by 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) Marc MacSharry: I am not disagreeing with the Chairman but I just think it would be great to have an element of consistency. If I had a choice of sleeping on Molesworth Street or in a house in a former local authority scheme, it would not take much thought on my part. We could have a national direction as opposed to superficial things involving Airbnb.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: That is the Chairman's view.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: It would be good to have consistency though.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is good news that there will be more money available in 2019 but in terms of the here and now there are 1,136 people waiting. When the Minister took office in May 2016 there were 65 in the same category. That is a seventeenfold increase in that time. Nationally, the Minister is aware that the outpatient lists have hit another record high of 515,547 with almost 150,000 of those patients...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to see the Minister positively discriminate against the north west of the country in terms of the 40,000 places that will be funded through the NTPF. It always worries me when the Minister puts the onus on the hospital to come up with a plan. We are driving the bus up here, at least we should be. People have been waiting for a long time not just for ENT but for the full range...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the action which will be taken to address the long outpatient waiting times in Sligo University Hospital in which 1,136 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an appointment. [43620/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What action will be taken to address the long outpatient waiting times in Sligo University Hospital where 1,136 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an appointment?