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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Does that include the commuter belt counties of Louth, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: These counties would have a higher rate in terms of the value of a property. Will Mr. Nugent explain it to me again? Is the figure of €180,000 across the board?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Outside of Dublin?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What are the counties where one of the criteria is €220,000?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Are they Louth, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Or is it only Meath, Kildare and Wicklow? I am asking for a particular purpose. I represent the Louth constituency and there is some confusion about the counties involved in terms of the higher qualification criteria of €220,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I would appreciate that. Where are the major obstacles? Are the banks and lending institutions playing ball? There is a sense that they are not and that they are dragging their feet. This is causing considerable problems for people in difficult circumstances. Will the deputation answer my question on the cost of the scheme to the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What has been allocated for this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What about more completions? What does the Department anticipate by year's end?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What about next year? I accept it may be difficult to extrapolate into next year. I accept as well that the Department will not have targets. It is a demand-led scheme in some ways. Will the Department elaborate on expectations for the number of people who will successfully secure mortgage-to-rent arrangements next year? Is that possible?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What are the collection levels for commercial rates in 2010 and 2011 in percentage terms? Has the Department noticed a steep decline year on year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses, as senior officials in the Department with responsibility for local government, find it acceptable that a considerable number of local authority members, who are drawing salaries from local authorities, have decided, in their wisdom, not to pay the household charge? We have a curious situation whereby those who are responsible for drafting and adopting local authority...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: It would not take a huge leap of imagination to apply the same principle to local authority members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I assume the Department would encourage local authority members and everybody else to pay the household charge and, indeed, the property tax, as it is the law of the land.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I note that approximately one fifth of centrally sourced funds went into housing and urban regeneration. Do the witnesses have any idea of what proportion of centrally sourced funding went on housing during the boom? Clearly a new view is emerging from the Department and the Minister of State with responsibility for housing that there is a range of different ways in which local authorities...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Much was made of the measures introduced by the Department and local authorities to provide affordable housing to people who were in a position to apply and who met the qualifying criteria. We have moved into a new space in this regard. Under the new arrangements, how many of the former affordable housing units will be sold and how many will be allocated, as per the traditional social...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: How many people are on the social housing waiting list nationally?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: We have a substantial housing waiting list, undoubtedly, but there was an expectation that unsold NAMA units, for example, would have provided a social dividend in terms of the provision of social housing. How many units does the Department expect to come on stream next year through NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I would like to be associated with those comments. It was an example of the Committee of Public Accounts at its best. The report was fair and balanced, as people would be entitled to expect from the committee. I also thank Mr. Ted McEnery and the secretariat for their hard work under some pressure from us. It succeeded in exposing some of the myths about public sector allowances. It has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a time frame for the publication of the Walsh Report; the reasons for the excessive delay in publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54900/12]