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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the secretariat to confirm that by tomorrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask the secretariat to check into that and to email all members once confirmation has been received.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let us see how the secretariat gets on. It will keep all members informed by email. As already stated, we are going to arrange a private meeting as soon as possible with a person who made a protected disclosure. We also had a discussion in private session earlier on Dr. Gabriel Scally's report. The Joint Committee on Health is meeting Dr. Scally and the HSE on 10 October. The clerk to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will set a date for that after the meeting next week. We will see how we get on. In terms of general ideas for the work programme, we have agreed meetings for 11 October and 18 October. On 25 October, we will be dealing with matters relating to housing. We will be meeting representatives from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government solely in connection with housing. As...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I expect it will be an extensive meeting. We need to have the Department, the Secretary General and key people in the housing section in. We also need to have someone from the housing and sustainable communities section of the Housing Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. Am I correct in saying the Irish Council for Social Housing is the umbrella body for approved housing bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does Mr. McCarthy audit them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: So it is responsible for the private housing organisations. We all know who the approved housing bodies are. Essentially, most Government funding is being channelled through them for house construction and long-term leasing, as opposed to the local authorities. We will have a major gap if they or their representatives are not in the room. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will put all of those organisations on notice to be ready on 25 October and by next week's meeting on 11 October the secretariat can give us a proposed structure for how to handle the meeting. It could be a case of having a different time for different sections or an agenda and timetable for the meeting. First, we will give them notice and we can come back to how we structure the meeting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The land aggregation agency is the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It has schedules of every piece of land it took over from local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: If we do not get the answers on the day the witnesses will have to come back a second time. It is as simple as that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: And those responsible for the HAP.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Or the IDA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: A big element of that equation is the request from the approved housing bodies to the Department for their developments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: The only reason I mention the approved housing bodies is that in my experience nearly every housing project that is under way is through an approved housing body. From my observations, more requests are going to the Department for funding from approved housing bodies than from local authorities. AHBs are the elephant in the room.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, I think they are departmental officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will want to deal with HAP.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There has been a change from rent supplement to HAP. When one goes down, the other goes up. They are fundamentally the same thing.