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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: And has gone back. No one else has stuck a hand in and grabbed any part of the 20%.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Who has got the most money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: It is as simple as that. The next issue came up with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. One of its most recent reports suggested that the abolition of town councils would be reviewed in some fashion. I had a discussion with Mr. Robert Watt about how that would play out. Town councils have been abolished. I hear both sides of the argument regarding the Department's position....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Can Mr. McCarthy flesh that out for me? How does this work? Getting feedback from councillors is fine. What exactly is the proposal? Is it piecemeal? Has it not been though through yet? Is there a definite plan with regard to surveying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I am not suggesting that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Is it right that there is no specific plan in place to determine whether there has been improvement or disimprovement when it comes to the abolition of town councils and the restructuring of local government generally?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I think the Department should. This committee deals with how money is spent. The change was so transformational with regard to the local authorities and those living there that there should be a plan for how to determine that on an ongoing basis to see if things are working or not working. Some people already have very definite opinions about the weaknesses in the system one year on. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: I do not know if the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has moved that on at all. I do not know if Mr. McCarthy knows what I am talking about. It was discussed when Mr. Robert Watt last appeared before the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: That is fine. By the end of 2013 there was an estimate of €103 million in expenditure on the Mahon tribunal. In September 2014 a final estimate was put on the planning tribunal at roughly €159 million. Where are we at with the tribunal right now? What is the estimated price tag?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: That remains. I obtained some information from Waterford County Council which is probably applicable to every local authority. It suggested that the allocation for roads in Waterford was 40% less than the allocation made in 2008. I do not know if that strikes Mr. McCarthy as being correct. Those are the figures I obtained. It indicated there had been a massive drop since 2008. I am not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: The local government fund was part of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: Does Mr. McCarthy consider that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has no role in the allocations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: So that is a big "no". That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015) John Deasy: That is a massive drop when it comes to the national roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: In regard to issues arising from the minutes, last week I asked about the Comptroller and Auditor General's staff complement he had embedded in NAMA, on an ongoing basis since the NAMA Act and since NAMA was set up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Yes, I am sorry, it is not the US Marine Corps. Claims have been made recently in the media regarding fire-sales of NAMA assets. I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts for four years and, since NAMA came in to this committee, the sale of assets and the timeliness of the sale of assets has been a point of debate. At the first meeting I made the case that, given the projections...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: That was my term, I apologise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: That is fine, but the Comptroller and Auditor General does look at the rate of return?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: The question then arises, from what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, if he has a policy disagreement with NAMA, regarding the rate of return and how broad or narrow it should be - and he made that clear at the last meeting. In the special reports that have been completed, has he found any evidence of a fire-sale as such - maybe put the term fire-sale aside - has he found any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Has the Comptroller and Auditor General found, in the special reports, evidence of any particular, singular assets being sold at a rate that, in his opinion, would be too low? Can he confirm that he does have a difference of opinion with regard to NAMA's flexibility and that he believes NAMA could preserve that flexibility within the rates of return parameters which he suggested?