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- Joint Committee On Health: Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Would Mr. Ryan suggest it is mirrored in the lack of staff and the lack of beds in the adult service or is it that we are actively removing children from those adult services and putting them into children's services? It would seem we do not have those beds in the children's services. Where are those children being moved to? Why is there a big fall-off? By the way, I am happy to see the...
- Joint Committee On Health: Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I am merely wondering what is happening there.
- Joint Committee On Health: Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. I thank our guests.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am bit late in today. I am trying to cover a number of committee meetings this morning. I want to turn to the issue of funding of homelessness services. It is an area I know we have touched on in the past, and I know that quite an amount of work has been done between the Department and the housing committee on the issue of the provision of services, in particular consideration of NGOs...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am aware that the homelessness numbers are rising, unfortunately, but, as a percentage of the whole, is the provision through PEA increasing or decreasing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As a percentage of the whole?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am not asking about places; I am asking about a percentage of the whole. We know that the numbers are rising, so the numbers could be increasing as a flat rate, but if the housing committee has identified the goal of reducing provision of accommodation through PEA, is that goal being met? Are we bringing more NGOs into the sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I completely accept that. Would it be possible to get tabulated data on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: That would be really helpful. On getting NGOs into this sector, there was a discussion about the tender process and revisiting it and making it easier for NGOs to tender. Obviously, the reason we have more PEA is that the facilities are cheaper to run. They do not necessarily have the kind of trauma-aligned care we would like to see for homelessness accommodation. We discussed in 2020 the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I would appreciate data on that. From the transcript of the meeting we had in February, I note that the DHRE had four people working on a team to look at modified standards for those PEA facilities. I would appreciate more information as to whether we are still dealing with four people. We have all been talking about the homelessness crisis and the provision of private emergency...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Have new service level agreements been signed with private providers since 2020?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As part of the service level agreement, was there a requirement that every staff member be Garda vetted?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I will move away from homelessness. There has been a project in Dublin City Council since 2019, when the new crop of councillors came in, to look at the remunicipalisation of waste. It is driven particularly by the difficulty with inner-city provision of waste services. It is difficult to get brown bins in inner-city areas. Many people live in terraced houses. We see a good model in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Sorry. When Mr. Doyle says that, what he means is that if such an authority were to do that, funding would come from a source that is not the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As the Department has overall oversight of local authorities, however, is it an issue or a policy initiative that the Department would take any issue with or that it would have any concerns about?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I thought that Mr. Doyle might say that and the reason I am asking this is because the de-municipalisation of waste was mostly a cost issue for the majority of local authorities, in that this they simply could not make it work. Mr. Doyle’s Department has oversight over a great deal of that funding, which is why I ask this question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Finally, in the minute of speaking time remaining to me, I suspect, even though I missed some of the earlier part of the session, that people have asked Mr. Doyle about the local property tax and the breakdown of how that is applied to different local authorities and to that Central Fund. I have a general question around not so much that aspect of it but around the calculation of funding...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Following on from that, I am very aware that the local property tax, having sat through the negotiations where we churned all of this out, is one aspect of this but there are other metrics and there is another calculation which is applied to local authorities which does not relate solely to the property tax, in terms of accessing funds. Outside of the property tax, does that calculation...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms O’Donoghue; I am out of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Neasa Hourigan: If Mr. Kelly wants to refresh his memory, I asked this question of the Department of Housing, Local Government in 2020 at a meeting of this committee, I believe. It would seem to me that trauma-supported or trauma-led care of people in homelessness is quite a complex issue. A bare minimum would be to include Garda vetting as part of a service level agreement when entering into a contract...