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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To go from 50 to ten is significant progress. A question we always ask relates to the remaining ten. In terms of the households impacted, what percentage is left to be resolved? The agglomerations can be different sizes and the wastewater treatment plants can impact larger and smaller populations. What percentage of impacted households or geographical areas remains to be dealt with? Are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: From their conversations with the Department, is it the witnesses' understanding that the Commission is satisfied with the rate of progress? The purpose of enforcement activity is to get improvement rather than to impose fines. Are the witnesses comfortable that we are on the right side of that trajectory with the Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two more quick questions and the witnesses can come back to me at a later stage. Is there any update on the transition to the single utility? How many staff have transitioned across from the local authorities to Uisce Éireann? Are there any other outstanding issues in that regard? An issue I raised previously is whether the plan is to have some continued footprint of other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the final deadline for expressions of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be that I misheard. Did Ms Attridge say that approximately 2,500 full-time equivalent staff are currently covered by the service level agreement, SLA, and so far approximately 1,000 have expressed an interest? Is that a fair summary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, they are covered by the SLA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise, they would have previously been covered by the SLA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One thousand of that 2,500 have expressed an interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What would have been Uisce Éireann's expectation or did Uisce Éireann have an expectation? Ms Attridge may remember that when this was originally discussed, one of the reasons Irish Water, as it was then, wanted to bring the SLA to a close earlier was that it felt there were approximately 1,000 more full-time equivalent staff than needed. The framework agreement has dispensed with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a recruitment campaign-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the changes regarding cessation of the assessment of child maintenance in the means test for social welfare payments were delayed from 1 May 2024 as in the initial announcement made in March 2024 (details supplied) until 4 June 2024 in the updated press release; if the impact of the delay to those in receipt of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When is Uisce Éireann expecting the assessment to be complete?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister and Ministers of State for their opening statements. The role of this committee in scrutinising Estimates is important and one that a number of us take seriously. We do that by tracking what is committed on budget day through the abridged Estimates Volume, how that is then finalised in the Revises Estimates Volume in December, and the subsequent changes to that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I am not looking to have an argument, but a few of the things the Minister said are not accurate. I will set out the position. My understanding of the budgetary process is that there are essentially estimated Estimates in the abridged Estimates file. It exists. It is a table and it is not only at programme level. It is at sub-programme level. Every line item is itemised. When...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to know where it comes from.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the most recent of these documents it was in such small writing that I found it hard to see, but it said how much came from each subhead.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a reason it is not in the official Revised Estimates document? Normally those changes are tracked in the Revised Estimates document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In previous Revised Estimates there has been a table which shows where the carryover is and lists per subhead how much was underspent in the subhead to give the carryover, in this case of €1.41 million.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (13 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Previous Revised Estimates also showed where it came from. It was a small sub-----