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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 (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: My point is that where there are issues and there is a process, people will be advised and several will leave before the notice arrives. That is the final recorded figure for the number of people who got to that point. There are probably far more in the system. Not all people wait until they receive a notice before leaving the property. If they see the writing on the wall, they might make...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: They stick it out. Those who leave the properties are back on the doorstep of the local authority. That leads into the issue of approved housing bodies being able to cherry pick, while local authorities cannot do so. I am not saying that is the case, but it is the perception in certain quarters.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: For the record, are many homeless organisations also approved housing bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Simon is another such organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: It is important that the ICSH make the public aware of that. Many people have a certain perception of approved housing bodies. The ICSH should make it clear that its members also deal with front-line homelessness because many people forget that is the case, even though it is obvious when it is pointed out. I ask that the committee be sent a note on payment and availability agreements. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy send the committee a note on the scheme and how it works.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Are there differing rates under the payment and availability scheme for different local authorities, or is it the case that within a local authority there could be several payments based on local-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: It is in the interests of the approved housing body that the target rent be relatively high in order to guarantee a good income. I am being pragmatic about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: People pay the equivalent of a differential rent. The approved housing body receives the payment. Is it paid through the local authorities? What is the payment structure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask that the committee be sent a note on how the scheme works. Mr. Hannigan has stated the rents are linked with market rates. The rent might be 20% or a similar figure below market rates.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I am referring to the payment and availability payment to AHBs. When an AHB develops 30 or 50 houses, for example, for what period is the level of the payment and availability payment fixed? When is it renewed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That is exactly the point I was coming to: the cost to the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That was my next question. For how many years is it fixed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I refer to a typical three to five-year contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: In terms of AHBs drawing down long-term finance, is it short term such as over four years? I am sure an organisation borrowing money would prefer to have the agreement guaranteed for a longer period.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I am putting on my hat s Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts which looks after State funds. If the issue of housing supply is sorted out to some extent and rents start to drop, will the State be caught paying a high rent to AHBs based on an agreement that will be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I noted that when the Department was working on affordable housing sites, there was a presumption that the market would continue to rise and the opposite was not contemplated.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I do not want the State to be caught out. How many properties have been provided by AHBs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: How many of the AHBs for which payments are approved ensure their financial statements are published and audited within six months of year end? Can any of the witnesses answer that question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Does the Department have that information?