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- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Did the board ever-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Was a motion ever put before the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Can that be clarified for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied that the provisions of the relevant section of the Act are robust enough in the first instance? Is he satisfied with the internal audit controls in ETBs? We have heard that internal audit committees are also in place. Is he satisfied that their powers, resources, capacity of the board and the provisions of the Bill are sufficient to ensure that we have a robust...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Given that the Comptroller and Auditor General compiled a supplementary report on this matter, one of the things that struck me was the relationship between the executive and the board. To be fair to the board, a board can only work, as far as I can see, on information that it is given. If information is withheld from or not given to a board or any of its subcommittees, the board does not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: I have two final questions. Teachta Aylward mentioned the speeding up of the construction of a school that may have led to a cost of €483,000. Why was construction speeded up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: Is it puzzling to the Comptroller and Auditor General that the construction was speeded up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: I thank Mr. McCarthy. My final question is to Mr. Ó Foghlú and relates to the Act, which underpins the work of the ETBs. I imagine he would agree with the observations made by the Comptroller and Auditor General and me in this matter. There were two supplementary reports, one of which related to the VECs, although there was some crossover with the issues that emerged at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: The provisions of the Act are pretty meaningless if they were not invoked in this instance. The Act is there but it is not much use.
- Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: I heard what he said.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: I thank the witnesses for appearing before us on a voluntary basis. I also thank them their opening statements and for being in a position to help us with our work in this area. I will start with Dr. McManus and develop some of the points he made in this opening statement on how approved housing bodies are funded. He spoke of the changes in 2010, I think it was, to a mixed funding. AHBs,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: There is some element of it, and it is quite small, that might come through banks or private investment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Okay. Where does the Housing Finance Agency finance come from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: In that case the dominant funding model would be 30% upfront loan, the capital advanced leasing facility, CALF, payment as it is called, and more often than not the majority of the 70% has come from the Housing Finance Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: The State pays the approved housing body a monthly payment for 25 years. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: The approved housing body would then pay down the loan, and when that is done it would repay the State the 30%. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Who owns the property then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: Is there any issue there with regard to State ownership? Much of this started in 1991 so the first stream of housing from that process will be coming into the ownership of the approved housing bodies. Since 1991 these schemes have been funded primarily through State funding, yet the approved housing bodies will end up owning the properties. While it might be illogical that they could...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: I asked because it is an issue that has been dealt with in the Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government. A special committee on housing was established after the previous general election and it examined a range of issues relating to housing. One of the main issues was that we do not have enough public or social housing. In fairness to the approved housing bodies, they do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Feb 2019) David Cullinane: It is not a theory. It is the case.