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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) Bobby Aylward: What percentage of the total number of social houses does it represent?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: I was involved for a long time in local government. During the 1950s and 1960s it was always the local authorities which built houses. Is the Department pushing towards voluntary housing bodies in providing social housing instead of county councils? I know that some county councils are better than others in providing houses, but they are all turn-key. When I first entered local...
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Is it left up to every local authority whether it has turn-key properties or gets in personnel and starts building? I am talking about value for money. Does Mr. McCarthy have statistics to indicate the value for money achieved by local authorities in the case of an average three-bedroom house compared to voluntary bodies? Is there a difference in cost between what a local authority would...
- 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) Bobby Aylward: With reference to pyrite, I see that the Housing Agency is mostly funded through State grants. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General indicates that its income in 2017 was €34 million, while its expenditure was €33.1 million. Payments under the pyrite remediation scheme amounted to €25.3 million. For what part of the country is that figure? Is it for County...
- 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) Bobby Aylward: We do not hear about it in Kilkenny or the south east.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: We have good stones.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Does it mean that houses have to come down and be rebuilt or that remedial work has to be carried in situ?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Who carries the cost? Does the builder or whoever supplied the pyrite originally have any responsibility or does it all fall on the taxpayer?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: If the material was not up to scratch, why was it allowed to go through the system and why did no one realise it would cause trouble down the line, with blocks starting to fall apart? With modern technology, one would imagine the strength of stone and cement would be one of the first things that would be tested. Why did that not happen? The taxpayer will probably have to cover most of the cost.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. O'Connor convinced that that has all stopped and that it could not happen tomorrow morning in the case of another material being used that is not up to standard?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: In other words, it is testing it and making sure it is up to scratch.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: I see that in 2018 the Housing Agency held 243 ha of residential development land in 72 locations. The land was transferred to the agency from local authorities under the land aggregation scheme in operation from 2013. That seems to be a lot of land. Being a farmer, I know what a hectare of land is and it seems to be a lot of land to have lying idle, from what I am reading between 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) Bobby Aylward: Did the local authorities hand it over to the Housing Agency? The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General states land was transferred from local authorities to the Housing Agency. They should have utilised it, but that is another story.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: We are being told all the time that there is no problem with funding and that money is available to build houses. As we have land and money, what is the problem? There are 239 ha available, yet the country has a housing crisis. That does not make sense.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: When is it envisaged that that 239 ha of land will be utilised and that building will happen on it? Are we talking about three, five or ten years?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Of the 239 ha.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: The Department reports outputs on a scheme by scheme basis but does not report the size of social housing stock. It has figures for local authority stocks but not for the social housing held by approved housing bodies. It seems strange that it has all of the information on local authority stocks but nothing for the approved housing bodies, given that taxpayers' money is involved. There...
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Why is it only happening now?
- 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) Bobby Aylward: It is self-regulation.
- 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) Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. McCarthy happy that the process is foolproof?