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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: How many local authorities would be outside the scheme because they did not enter it before it was closed down? Do we have any figures for the total liability in this regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: If I understand Mr. McCarthy correctly, those loans have been repackaged into 25-year annuities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: Okay. I understand. Could I move on to the issue of social and voluntary housing? Mr. McCarthy mentioned earlier that approximately 1,800 refurbished units have been turned over in recent times. What is the breakdown between direct build or local authority build and building by the voluntary sector? I would appreciate it if Mr. McCarthy could furnish us with those figures.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I am asking about new-build units.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: How many new units would there have been?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied with the Department's level of oversight of the approved housing bodies? I know work is being done at the moment to improve the regulatory framework. Substantial moneys are made available to voluntary housing bodies, some of which operate to the highest standards. In my own experience, other bodies do not operate to those standards, to be perfectly frank. Is Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: My colleague, Deputy Harris, touched on the issue of tribunal costs earlier. Obviously, everybody is concerned about the expenditure of public moneys. We have all expressed eagerness to provide for value for money and a level of control over legal costs. In response to that, the State Claims Agency, SCA, established a legal costs unit, which kept an eye out in terms of intervening in what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate Mr. McCarthy on his appointment and I look forward to working with him in his role as Secretary General, I have questions on the land aggregation scheme. Members will be familiar with how the land aggregation scheme operates in their constituencies. I recall that a great many local authorities raised significant finance from the Housing Finance Agency to purchase sites in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: Would it be fair to describe it as a mini-NAMA for local authorities?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate that. I am not referencing at all any of the internal reviews undertaken by that organisation. There are some outstanding matters that need to be resolved in terms of the expenditure of public moneys and whether that was appropriate. I accept that we must await the view of the HSE on this matter but I would like it confirmed that this matter is not closed as far as this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I will not detain the committee for too long. I am concerned when an organisation, in the second paragraph of its reply, dismisses a former employee who made a detailed set of claims against it as being someone who is just disgruntled and has a score to settle. Dr. Harrold made some serious claims about the organisation and I would like to know where the matter sits. Has any material on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: The best approach is probably to start a discussion with the Secretary General.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the current position regarding the staffing arrangements pertaining to nursing, psychology and dietetics for IBD patients at Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin; if the Health Service Executive will provide on a ring-fenced and exclusive basis a psychologist, a nurse and a dietician to operate exclusively with IBD patients at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Volunteering and Community Development: Volunteer Ireland (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and for being here today. I regularly witness the impact of the Louth Volunteer Centre in my own community. We are very lucky to have the centre in Drogheda. I can see its impact all of the time. It is very visible and effective. I am very taken with a remark where the witnesses describe themselves as prime delivery agents. It never made...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Alcohol Advertising (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 112. To ask the Taoiseach the number of submissions received by the interdepartmental working group on alcohol sponsorship of sport, chaired by his Department, and from whom; when the working group envisages that it will review the submissions; the number of meetings in total the working group has had to date since it was established; when it expects to report; to whom the working group...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to expand the living cities initiative in 2015; if he will consider including Drogheda, County Louth, in any such expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27273/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the system of direct provision; the number of persons who are accommodated in direct provision centres across the State; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of children, those aged under 18 years, who are subject to the direct provision system; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of young...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 527. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive board will formally dispose of a site (details supplied) to an organisation for the purposes of the development of a new school building. [26615/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in awarding a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; the current status of the application; the reason the temporary card was not renewed pending the processing of the application. [26862/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (19 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details on the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland supported companies in County Louth in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 in tabular form; the number of jobs supported in County Louth by the agencies in the years concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26438/14]