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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: So if we strip out the Part V builds and the turnkeys what are we talking about? Is it roughly 50% of that, that is, 2,500?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: The turnkeys are another 1,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Mr. Kelly might come back to me on it. We will take it as 3,000. Where are we at now, roughly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Will the Department come back to us with the hard figures on that for where we are at the end of June, insofar as it has the information? There is a big budget, and rightly so. The more the merrier. The Committee of Public Accounts wants to see what returns we are getting. I am not clear and would like to have a clearer picture of it. I have complained to Ministers about the all the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: Would that rule out the need for an architect to design every new house?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: We can get an architect to design the first lot and then pay them off-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: I know about the manual. I have been through that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: No but this is important because Mr. Doyle mentioned it to me before. That has to do with standards. What I am saying is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: We are in the middle of a housing crisis. I am not advocating that we throw up slums. I am advocating that we put up good-quality, compact, energy-rated houses, or apartments if they are appropriate. We need between six and eight simple designs. I saw houses like the one I lived in as a child in Donegal and other parts of the country. There are houses like the ones in Crumlin and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: I do not want the Department to just go in that direction. I want it to make a big leap.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: The Department is still caught on the design issue. I welcome the fact that there is standardisation. That makes sense. I get that. The Department is talking about design and build to councillors, developers and builders. I say we hand it to them and say, "There's the drawing. We want 50 of those." Until we get to that point, we are wasting money on architectural fees and time and are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: If that is successful in Limerick, could we transfer it to Kildare, Galway, Laois or wherever else?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: There is no law saying that we must have an architectural design for every house and that departmental officials must look at windows to see if they look alright aesthetically. It should be a case of "We have them, that's it". We should save money and time and get them built. I have said this to Ministers over the past decade or so. I find it very frustrating. Unless officials take this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: We need to move to standard design as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Verona Murphy who has four minutes speaking time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: The Secretary General should be given the opportunity to answer that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: My apologies to the Deputy but I do not want her to personalise this matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: I have no problem with that. In a situation as outlined by the Deputy, does the Secretary General advise the Minister in such cases? I am not talking about a particular case. Would the Secretary General advise the Minister or would the Minister act without the advice of a Secretary General? That, I believe, is the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: The Deputy might allow the Secretary General to reply.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022) Brian Stanley: It is on occasion; it would not always happen.