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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to putting in place a mechanism to allow for greater transparency along the entirety of the Irish food chain through the establishment of a regulator with sufficient powers such as a national food ombudsman (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12573/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in respect of the establishment of the new office of the national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated in Budget 2021 and additional funding which had been allocated to date for the establishment of the new office of the national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if calves born after the cut-off date for the beef dairy calf programme in 2022 will be eligible for inclusion in the 2023 dairy beef calf scheme in view of a retro-eligibility measure being undertaken by his Department to facilitate those with calves born after 1 July 2021 to be included in the 2022 dairy beef calf scheme; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an annual review will be carried out by his Department to determine the funding allocation for the beef dairy calf programme over the duration of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 772. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received by his Department for the dairy beef calf scheme in 2021 by county in tabular form; the number of payments that have been issued to farmers to date; if additional funding was required to meet demand for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12893/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for being here. There has been a lot of focus on the drawdown of funding. I am interested in the structure to protect the organisation with regard to securities, etc. What checks and balances are in place to make sure there is adequate security? We had a problem with the banks in the past. Representatives from the National Asset Management Agency were before the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Is the person drawing down the funding already the owner of the property or is some of the funding going towards the purchase of the property?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Alger would accept that one of the problems that occurred when the crash came in 2008 was the exposure of the banks that had inadequate security. Have any particular problems been highlighted in that regard? Have alarm bells been set off because of issues that occurred previously?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: When money is drawn down, what is the structure for repayment? What time period is normally granted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I will ask about projections of dates of sales, etc. I know construction was closed for part of the pandemic. Are our guests satisfied that the targets and timelines set are being reached or are the timeframes now longer for the delivery of the end product?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: The HBFI lends money to developers who must show they have had difficulty in getting the required borrowing from the financial institutions. What is the difficulty about the financial institutions providing lending at this stage? Never before has there been so much money on deposit in the main banks in this country. Why is there a reluctance in the financial sector to provide funding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: What does Ms Deering mean by "too small for the main banks"? The State has a shareholding in the main banks. Is Ms Deering saying that an entity in which the State has a shareholding is refusing to talk to developers unless they are building 50 houses?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Given the shape of the housing market, the growth of population and the demand for housing that will be there, does Ms Deering not think it is now time for the Government to talk to the banks and ask why they will only lend 65% of the cost of a new development and not 80%, as is the case with the HBFI? Those banks have adequate moneys on deposit. In fact, they are now penalising people for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Ms Deering accept that the banks are now being unreasonable in saying to small builders that five houses amount to €1.5 million? That is not a small loan. Where a builder is already putting €300,000 or €400,000 into a development, the risk to the bank is very small. Is it not now time that the banks came back to the market and helped deal with the housing shortage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: In all of the HBFI’s cases, it has not seen a risk, even where it has given 80%. It has indicated that while there is a risk, it does not see that as a major challenge. If it does not see it as a major challenge, what is the problem with the main financial institutions? They have enough people with expertise to adjudicate on projects.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by his Department to date in respect of the reduction in public transport fares by approximately 20% as part of measures to help with the cost of living; the timeline of when this measure will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date in respect of the process to procure up to 80 double-deck battery electric buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that was granted for housing adaptation grants for older persons and persons with a disability from 2020 to January 2022; the number who availed of the grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12051/22]