Results 81-100 of 924 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 363. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which the planned Competitiveness Summit will take place; who will be invited to participate in this Summit; whether the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity will be announced in advance of or at this summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34149/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apartments completed in the four Dublin local authority areas per year from 2018 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apartments that received planning permission in the four Dublin local authority areas per year from 2018 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34174/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing commencements to date in 2025 in the four Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apartment commencements to date in 2025 in the four Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Land Development Agency (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the expected or set prices for each category of new home being developed by the Land Development Agency at Cherry Orchard Point, Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34178/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Land Development Agency (24 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the set prices for two-bed apartments across every Land Development Agency development in Dublin completed over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34179/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I am willing to give the Peter McVerry Trust the benefit of the doubt regarding what it has put in its correspondence and its sincerely held view that it has nothing further to add to our inquiries. However, we have several questions that we want it to answer on foot of the reports that have been published and the work the Comptroller and Auditor General has done. We are using this forum in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank all the witnesses who were invited here today for attending. They were invited to discuss the accounts but we were hoping to have a particular focus on the Peter McVerry Trust issues. Unfortunately, that organisation elected not to appear today. I want to focus my initial questions on that issue. Could the Secretary General outline how much of the homeless service's budget goes...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: So 70% of all funding for homeless services from the Department of housing goes to the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. Prior to the Peter McVerry Trust issues that have arisen, was the DRHE treated in the exact same way structurally, from a departmental and governance perspective, as all of the other regional homeless executives?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: In terms of oversight, accounting and reporting obligations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: So there was never any distinction drawn between them. How many regional homeless executives are there in Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: There are nine. Eight regional homeless executives cumulatively represent 30% of all of the funding and one represents 70% or 75% of overall funding. With the benefit of hindsight, was it appropriate that an entity that was getting so much money from the Department in terms of governance, oversight and reporting was treated the exact same as a smaller regional homeless executive that would...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Am I right in saying that on foot of what happened in the Peter McVerry Trust, changes have taken place in terms of governance and oversight, as it relates to the DRHE at least?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is that the same in respect of the eight other regional homeless executives? Has that changed standard been applied to those other regional homeless executives?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Why have those changes been made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: With the benefit of hindsight, does Mr. Doyle think that if the current structures he now has in place that some of the issues that arose in the Peter McVerry Trust might have emerged sooner or would have landed on the Department's desk a little bit quicker, had those governance structures been in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: It is really on a go-forward basis dealing with what has taken place in the wake of the issues.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Does Mr. Doyle have a sense of the direction of travel the report is going to recommend to the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: While I accept the point about the operations and that the Department cannot be expected to oversee what is happening on a day-to-day basis, the public might have concern about Mr. Kelly’s point that this was a unique situation. The Peter McVerry Trust was, and hopefully in the future will be again, one of the most trusted brands out there for all the service it has given to support...