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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: How many were last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Can we have a breakdown of that list and of the locations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We have been here since 10 a.m., so we will take a five minute sos. There will be votes in the House at 1.30 p.m. so we will complete this debate on housing by then. Following the votes, we will take a short break and be back as soon as practicable, having agreed a time. In the meantime, we will suspend for five minutes and will resume with Deputy O'Connell.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Deputy, I have to move on at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: There is a maximum of 30 minutes left and there are three speakers. Someone else might come in. We will do six or seven minute slots and there may be five minutes at the end. After six minutes, we will move on as I do not want anyone to miss out. Members should take six minute slots each. It is the same sequence as this morning of Deputies Catherine Murphy, Catherine Connolly and David...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask Deputy Murphy to allow the other members in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: It is the role of the CCMA.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane. Time is tight. He has a six-minute slot.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I will put a few quick questions before concluding this session. I have a general observation to make about the Department and it is nothing to do with the Secretary General. It is a historical issue. I will put my question by way of giving examples. If we ask the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the number of people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, it can...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: -----but from this side of the table, can he understand our view of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: This idea of having a statistic once a year is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy can take it as a positive comment to help improve the situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: He can use the committee to get a budget from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I understand that and we will not dwell on the point. When the list is available the Department knows the number of applications and knows that so many houses have been allocated or that approved housing bodies have taken people off the list. There will be people on the list who, as time passes, will no longer be interested. I understand that. We are not asking the Department to go back...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I understand that, and the reason is that there is probably a lot of manual work involved. That is why the local authorities speak of being harassed. If this process was automated, we would have somebody in the housing Department who could provide the number of applications processed this week and the number of applications on hand but not yet processed. That is the big issue we have with...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I have another question, and Mr. Murray might know the answer. How many people have transferred from rent supplement to the housing assistance payment, HAP, since the scheme began? If that figure is not available, it can be sent to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: How many have still to be transferred from rent supplement? I presume the plan is to close rent supplement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: We are not half way. How many have been transferred from rent supplement to HAP?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Are you saying there are another 20,000 to be transferred?