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Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Considering the crisis we are in now, it appears that such a decision warrants further investigation. Of the 7,000 properties identified by NAMA - and some might argue that this figure is too low - it seems 4,500 were not considered in any great way. It was indicated that 2,629 properties were delivered for social units and that a little under 1,400 were social houses to begin with,...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is the witness saying that when Housing for All indicates 1,400 homes will be delivered via NAMA, it is actually pointing to homes already in the social housing stock?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: There is one and this is it.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have a final and very brief question. Am I right in saying that with the 2,629 units - there may be an additional 100 - NAMA is providing no more social houses?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: No, the Part V element relates to the legislative requirements for developers. I am talking about NAMA providing additional social housing directly to the State.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I take this opportunity to return to work this committee did following our engagement with NAMA with regard to the Project Nantes loan portfolio, which resulted, according to our findings, in a loss of approximately €10 million to the taxpayer. Following our previous engagements, the NAMA board, essentially, refused to accept the figures or engage with us, and put all this down to a...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. McDonagh for that. The committee has always acknowledged that the National Asset Management Agency Act was not necessarily breached, but we had indicated we believe NAMA should have done more to investigate the connections between companies managing assets on its behalf and the companies seeking to purchase NAMA loan portfolios. Mr. McDonagh will recall that was a matter of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposed timeframe to honour the Government commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. [46477/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Many people are surprised to learn that income thresholds are a relatively new phenomenon. It was a Labour Party Minister, to its shame, that introduced them in order, I contend, to simply reduce the housing lists. Rather than build houses, mechanisms were found to cut the lists. Prior to that, housing lists were determined on a raft of criteria, including income. It was taken into...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Government is still deluded.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: According to its most recently published strategy, the Government intends to provide 54,000 affordable home interventions, which is an interesting term, between now and 2030. How many of those affordable homes will be delivered in County Monaghan between now and 2025? Will the Minister outline his definition of "affordable" in those instances?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for that answer. In order for a strategy to work, and we can leave aside the debate on the wider strategy itself, it is crucially important that we know the where and the when. It is hard for me to comprehend how we could say that the local authority will provide the Minister with a plan or vision by the end of this year and that, within that context, any affordable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Therein lies part of the problem. The Minister is correct that house prices in Monaghan are lower than in other parts of the State. My fear is that the local authority and the Department will consider that Monaghan is not a priority for affordable housing. The difficulty is that we see the pressures that are already building, even in a county like Monaghan. House prices in County...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that will be delivered in County Monaghan in 2021 and in each of the years 2022 to 2025; and the definition of affordable in these instances. [46429/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: My first question was answered by Mr. McCarthy in his last remark. Does Mr. McCarthy reckon it was three years that these payments were made for?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I appreciate the Comptroller and Auditor General's response to Deputy McAuliffe that the exact numbers are not to hand. Can I take it that this was uniform across the agency or the authority?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Mr. McCarthy references an April 2020 review which made a number of recommendations regarding data management inadequacies, data analytics capability, IT capability and industrial relations capability. Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied that the review is being implemented? Can he make a comment on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I fully support the Chairman's proposal. We may have given Revenue an avenue out by being prescriptive in terms of requesting that they commission an independent investigation. I am very disappointed, however, that Revenue has said that it does not have the powers to set up such a commission and that there is no legal basis for them to do so. They are not offering a proposal to do...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Yes, Cathaoirleach, and it is in relation to the public relations expenditure, which is something that we have seen in the accounts of a number of statutory bodies. We have had particular discussions around Irish Water and its grid. Irish Water springs to mind where one has statutory bodies that have no competitors spending tens of thousands of euro, and in some cases hundreds of thousands...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: On the DART interconnector, I am sure that, like me, other members of the committee have received correspondence from Ashtown Stables. We see this every time there is a big infrastructural project in terms of the impact on particular businesses. In some cases, it can wipe them out. I propose that the committee write to the Department of Transport to request a note on how it plans to deal...