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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is €200,000 available?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay, I understand. Finally, we will hold over our discussions on the work programme until the next meeting. There is nothing new in it and we know what we are doing for the next while.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are scheduling a time for that. We have written to him and are expecting that it will happen immediately after the recess.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Actually, it is on the programme that I have in front of me. We are proposing to deal with it on 15 November. We have a date scheduled.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: What I am suggesting is that we hold over our discussion on the work programme until the next meeting because we have witnesses waiting to come in. We can discuss the timetable at our next meeting. We have not done any advance work on it and only have a timetable laid out for the next few weeks. I am quite happy to come back to that issue in the context of the work programme. We will make...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Our meeting will focus on matters relating to the achievements of targets and value for money achieved in regard to housing supply and delivery. We will be dealing with the following: the Appropriation Accounts 2017; Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government; the 2017 financial statements of the Housing Agency; and chapter 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2017 report, funding...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. McCarthy and I call Mr. O'Connor to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I would like to ask Mr. McCarthy a straightforward question before I call the opening speaker. He rightly said in his opening statement that "delivery [of housing] can only be accelerated by local authorities, the Housing Agency and AHBs working in partnership." Will he give me a report on the most recent meeting that would have taken place, having been called by the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: How many representatives of the CCMA were present, approximately?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Were they from the housing sub-committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Would it be possible during the next couple of hours to get a record or the minutes of those meetings to give us a real flavour of where it is happening? The Department provides the funding, but we are not seeing delivery. I presume the critical issues in this process were identified at those meetings. I take it that a record or note was taken at them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Not a formal-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Minutes of some description must have been taken.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: To assist the committee in its work, would it be possible for somebody to contact the office and have them emailed over? It is crucial for us, as a starting point, to know where the Department, the Housing Agency, the CCMA and the AHBs were at collectively when they held a meeting on the delivery of housing. Rather than talking to departmental officials today and the housing bodies next...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: There must be a record. I am sure it could be accessed under freedom of information legislation were it to come to that, but we do not want to go there. I ask for it to be made available to the committee this morning. I think Mr. McCarthy referred to two separate meetings, one with the chief executives-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not mind whether the document is entitled "actions" or something else, but it would be helpful to the committee if it could be emailed to the secretariat in the next couple of hours. Perhaps we will have it copied and circulated. At least then we would all be starting from the same position. Members have indicated in the following sequence: Deputy Catherine Murphy who will have 20...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I wish to follow up on one point made by Deputy Murphy. Mr. McCarthy said in his opening statement that 4,729 adults exited homelessness to independent tenancy in 2017. What is the comparable figure for 2016?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, Mr. McCarthy said that in his statement.