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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the possibility of including time accrued with student and graduate visas towards the five-year residency required to apply for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51376/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I seek the Minister's views on the possibility of including time accrued on student and graduate visas in Ireland towards the five-year residency required to apply for citizenship.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is very helpful. I thank the Minister. Will she provide an update on approximately how long it is taking to process citizenship applications?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Moloney and his colleagues for coming in. As I understand it the Department sets the code for this virements process and last year we spent €74 billion with €1 billion of that essentially being reallocated through this virements process. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What would the total amount be?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is it €3 billion, €5 billion, €10 billion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay, so it is at least €1 billion then out of the €74 billion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Moloney is saying the Department has stepped outside the code essentially because of Covid and the need to move money quickly. Is that it in essence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Sure, so because of Covid the Department used this procedure more than it would normally. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: All right, that is what I said. When the Department was going through this process how did it flag it? For example, is it going to happen this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Sure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay, that is fine. I will come back to that but I want to ask about the management of capital funds generally. Take, for example, the bigger-spending Departments. Ultimately, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for the NDP and the major capital projects. The funding is coming through the Department, as is the overall supervision. Is that not correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Exactly. It is Mr. Moloney's Department. Let us take 2022 because obviously 2021 was a bit different. What does the Department expect from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage? Where is it on profile at this stage, three quarters of the way through the year, with respect to its capital spend? I mean in percentage and monetary terms.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is Mr. Moloney talking about in the private sector or in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay but what I am asking, within my 15 minutes, is what is the Department's spend on capital projects relative to what it should be.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department is 30% below profile three quarters into the year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Where was the Department relative to profile at, say, the end of quarter 1?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay. What does Mr. Moloney expect will be the situation by the end of quarter 4?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is one of my concerns. I am glad Mr. Moloney has raised it. I am concerned it is being spent at the end of the year in a sort of heavy way on a range of different projects, including the purchase of turnkeys, which the Department says helps finance the development of those properties. That is fine except there is a willing market out there already looking to purchase homes. I am...