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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Yet when we requested those who do to come before the committee, they declined. The real question is who is overseeing them. Is it appropriate oversight if they cannot keep records of something so significant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: They are supposed to be independent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: That in itself is a question. It is about good governance. I have sat in council meetings where councillors have asked for independent advice and they have been asked "what for" by the person who would sanction it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: There is reference on page 52 to note 29. On page 29 it states that judicial review information has been submitted. Do we have this on our system?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: The correspondence states, "The absence of regular and standardised surveys by local authorities of their housing stock and a national asset management database to capture the survey information gives rise to this data gap." That takes us back again to the same issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: No. This is what I am talking about. We are in the middle of a housing crisis, but when we specifically asked the chair of An Bord Pleanála to point out where in the specific planning policy requirements, SPPRs, it stated there were minimum densities, he replied with the same letter that he sent two years ago, despite the fact that, after receiving that letter, the Minister declared in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We have a housing crisis. The real issue is that houses are not being built. Planning permissions are not being applied for because minimum densities are being imputed. With a minimum density of 35 dwellings her hectare, we are getting terraced houses and apartments. Apartments are expensive to build. I am not talking about Dublin or city-oriented policy, which really only means Dublin....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: To ask him to point out specifically where in legislation minimum densities are imputed. Where does it say in legislation that we must apply a minimum density of 35 dwellings per hectare, which is what the regulator is claiming?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Absolutely. If we are ever going to get over the housing crisis, this issue has to be addressed. We are discussing schemes but schemes are only available if houses are built, and houses are not being built in rural and regional Ireland because of this specific reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is cheaper to build a three-bedroom house than a one-bedroom apartment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Apartments are not needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: People do not want to live in them either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We will probably face the same situation, in that An Bord Pleanála will use the report and the fact that a file has now gone to the DPP to say that it is inhibited in what it can discuss.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We do not have a slot as such, but if there are any hiccups with anybody, we would like to be able to call them in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: I may be wrong, but I thought that it had been referred to what was previously known as the fraud squad and that someone had been arrested or taken for questioning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is about how we do things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: It should start here with accountability. We have not been getting that so I am not sure how we expect to change it, but it certainly needs to change. Nobody would disagree with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: We do not want to give the impression that we will not do it just because it is costing money. We need to find a better way. Every meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts almost has the potential for a tribunal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: Is the HSE undertaking a review of some of the purchasing throughout Covid-19 and of the €80 million? Are we not due to have a report on the purchasing of ventilators?