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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise three points on this correspondence, the first of which concerns point 5, relating to the legal firm that worked with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, or even its predecessor - it may well have been the Department - on the tender. The tender has been subject to significant additional costs. We know that around 1,000 claims were made. If a firm is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the general Government deficit, the local government system and the development contributions. There were restrictions on local authorities where they had an income from development contributions. They were not permitted to spend at will after the crash. Is that still the case? If so, what is the accumulation of development contributions for the local authorities? Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: However they are not permitted to spend at will even though they have money in the bank account and there may be things that they need to spend that on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will Ms O'Donoghue give us a note on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I mean from a financial point of view. There may be conflicts of interest given the transfer from local authorities to Irish Water too.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: When is that likely to happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Department anticipate it will look at population shifts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will certainly be coming back to this. I thank Ms O'Donoghue. We have seen the use of long leasing increasing in the past couple of years, and it is reflected to some extent in the figures. It was at a low level but has escalated. In advance of that scheme escalating - I know it is intended to dispense with this in the lifetime of the Government - what work indicating value for money...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Where is the value for money over the lifetime of the scheme? It is for a very long time as the authority is committing to pay over 25 years and there is no asset at the end. What work can be shown to this committee on the value-for-money aspect of the scheme in advance of it being escalated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is there specific work that was provided to local authorities or which they could have availed of to make the decisions on these agreements?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Doyle have a look?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Has this been assessed against directly building stock and having an asset at the end? What is it assessed against?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will the witnesses revert with a full response on the value-for-money aspect, whether it is from the Department dealing with public expenditure or housing? This is a very large amount of money and, as I said, there is no asset at the end. There is an affordable housing option in which local authorities are supposed to have a role. Have staff been specifically allocated to local...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses. There are so many topics that it is difficult to narrow down the ones we really want to go after. I endorse some of the points that have been made regarding the inspections regime and HAP because the tenant is very often not in a position to make the complaints and the notice to quit can arrive following a complaint. I want to start with the retrofit scheme....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: You acknowledged it in a reply back-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----that the price in certain local authorities for retrofitting properties-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I can see a scenario where we do not get the outcome. The Department allocates the money but because it is inadequate, local authorities do not have a source to match the funding if they are going to be out by a very sizeable amount, and we do not actually get delivery on the allocation. From a value-for-money perspective, the Department might as well not provide the money if the money is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is €10,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is very significant.