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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: 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]

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Three hundred per cent.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Does Deputy Higgins have the full support of his parliamentary party?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Is this last year's speech?

Funding for Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: None of the Deputies present would disagree on what our main objectives should be in terms of people with disabilities. We all recall when Ireland hosted the Special Olympics in the mid-2000s. It was an extraordinary time for our country. Our then President, Mary McAleese, regularly refers to it as "Ireland at its superb best". What made it particularly special was how communities opened...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help staff employed directly by the Health Service Executive to provide home help services in County Louth in 2011 and 2012; the average hourly rate paid to home helps in the county who work directly for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53820/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in terms of hours allocated to the home help service in County Louth to the Health Service Executive public provider compared to private sector providers; the sum paid to private and voluntary home help care providers in County Louth in 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53821/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in terms of hours allocated to the home help service nationally in terms of the Health Service Executive public provider compared to private sector providers; the sum paid by the HSE to private and voluntary home help care providers across the State in 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53822/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive have any plans to establish specialist facilities for the treatment and support of children with Ehler's Danios Syndrome; if he will provide details of the number of children here with EDS; the services available on a multi-disciplinary basis here; the financial supports available to allow patients to access...