Results 6,341-6,360 of 34,585 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: What paragraph is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The number of units is 29,803. Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. How could there be 10,000 staff associated with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: It could be that some of the homelessness organisations that do not have houses have a big complement of staff carrying out other work. We understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is worrying is that they do not seem to have a breakdown available, even to themselves, of their staffing. In that same paragraph, just before the chart, it is stated that the Irish Council for Social Housing does not have a breakdown available of the split between staff engaged in housing functions and those engaged in care and support services. They should have that. It is a big...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It says that under the RTB, tenancies commencing before 24 December 2016 are four years in length. Are we saying people have only that much tenure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We need that clarified. When people get a social house from a local authority, they have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: The idea that these can come up every four or six years is way out from that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We are going to write back to the Irish Council for Social Housing to clarify that remark in respect of the length of tenure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and to know how many have three, four, six or ten year leases. We know these bodies came under the RTB a couple of years ago. We understand that. However, we want to know about the housing bodies in their own right and what tenure they offer their tenants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: It should not have changed them. They do not deal with that at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: What we are asking is, in respect of their 29,803 housing units, what tenancy is in place for those tenants? How many have life tenancies? How many have tenancies for maybe four or six years? We need that information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: All the ICSH can account for is its own members. We are also going to write to the Department and will include all these items of correspondence. We want the Department to respond to the issues in these two letters and the issues we are raising. It is all well and good getting something from a voluntary regulatory office. It is fine getting something from the Irish Council of Social...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: We probably will not be able to do a report on leasing versus ownership because that is a long-term thing and we have not done enough. However, there are lots of things such as the HAP and various other matters that we have covered in our three meetings. When we get these clarifications, we will be able to do a report on the areas we have covered, exactly as the Deputy has said. There are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is 18 April but they will not be ready by that date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes; a waste of time.