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- 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 dependants exited homelessness last year?
- 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: In this crisis, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is telling us that it does not have a count for the number of children who exited homelessness.
- 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: It is very easy to count children. If six children are moving to a hub, one does not need a computer system to count 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: Can somebody not just work it out tonight or by the end of the month? Can somebody not gather data on the numbers of children who are homeless, the numbers that will exit homelessness in November and so on? I am amazed. This is the Committee of Public Accounts, which is chiefly concerned with money but if the Department is not even counting people or children, what is it doing? I am...
- 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: Does the Department accept that what we are hearing is bizarre? It is absolutely awful. The Department counts the adults leaving homelessness. Generally, the ratio of those people in homelessness is 2:1, adults to children. Approximately one third of those who are homeless are children. Roughly 3,000 of the 9,000 are children. The 9,800 figure includes children. Is that correct?
- 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: The public will have to bear with me on this. I thought we would have these figures presented to us but now we are trying to work them out ourselves.
- 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: We asked for information earlier in the meeting on the numbers who exited homelessness last year. I ask people to bear with me. I should not be trying to come up with this figure. The fact that this figure has not been recorded by anyone in the Department to date is awful. Mr. McCarthy mentioned earlier that 4,729 adults exited homelessness in 2017. He also said that 2,332 adults...
- 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: We will come back to it. I have put that in the public arena just to get the point across. The next matter I want to ask about is the figures we were given regarding the breakdown of the €1.4 billion in the housing budget last year, which is fine. Some €800 million of relates to build, acquire or lease. I will come back to the breakdown of that part. A further €296...
- 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 am going to ask a simple question. Out of the €1.4 billion spent last year on the housing programme, how much was specifically spent on building houses? It is probably the question I should have asked at the outset. How much of the €1.4 billion was spent on housing construction, not acquisition, leasing, HAP, homelessness or house improvement grants?
- 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: Can somebody answer the question? Out of the €802 million, how much was spent on building new houses?
- 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 suggest that is why we have a problem. We do not know how much we spent on building new houses and we do not know how many children exited homelessness. It is no wonder there is a housing crisis.
- 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: That is local authority housing. A large proportion of that figure was acquisition. Have we a breakdown in respect of building?
- 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 am coming to that.
- 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: As Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, I find it extraordinary that, several hours into a meeting specifically called to deal with housing, and having asked a straightforward question about how much the Department spent on house construction last year, there is no answer forthcoming. Do the officials not see how that makes people query the Department's commitment to solving 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: That is the most obvious formation - how much the Department spent on house construction.
- 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 know that and I accept that there is leasing, HAP and purchases. I mentioned that the Department does lots of purchases in my own county and I am happy with that and have no issue with it. However, the figure should have been provided straight up in respect of how much was actually spent on building last year. The officials told us earlier that the local authorities built 1,014 last year.
- 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: AHBs built 761 and Part V generated 522. We would be in a sorry state if the private sector was not providing the 522 through the Part V obligation. Out of that €800 million on housing last year, the local authorities built 1,014 houses. How many will be built this year to completion? What is the equivalent figure to date this year compared to that 1,014? It is an awfully low...
- 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: Is that the projected figure?
- 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: What was the projected figure for last year versus the outturn for last year?
- 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: So there was a target of 1,100 or 1,200 last year, something like that.