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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Who put together that business case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Mr. Doyle is likely aware of Ms Mairéad Phelan, who is the head of the building control office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I assume Mr. Doyle is also aware of correspondence penned by her in January 2020 wherein she described the situation as a national emergency. She outlined challenges and difficulties and a lack of resourcing within the building control office. Is he aware of that email?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Has Mr. Doyle seen that email?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Is Mr. Doyle aware of the content of the email?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Has Mr. Doyle sought to find out who got a copy of that email?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: That organisation was established in light of a cost of €6 billion, and potentially more, that resulted from a failure to have oversight and building controls in place and poor regulation. The organisation was put in place to ensure all those issues are addressed. The head of the organisation penned an email and called the situation a national emergency and said that regulatory staff...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I am trying to ask that question. Mr. Doyle only became aware of this email via the media last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Has anyone from the Department contacted Dublin City Council on foot of this? I find it astonishing that the head of this body described the situation more than a year ago as a national emergency and the Secretary General is not aware of that. I find that extraordinary. Since he found out about the email via a newspaper article, has Mr. Doyle contacted Dublin City Council to see what has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I have referenced two major failures. We only need to look across the water to see the disaster that took place in Grenfell Tower. Some 72 people lost their lives because of serious failures. What analysis has been carried out in of high-rise buildings throughout the State to ensure what happened in London cannot and will not happen in this State? Is Mr. Doyle aware of any audits of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I am conscious of time constraints. The Minister has said there are up to 37,000 homes at various stages of construction across the State. The head of the building control office stated there is a national emergency. Is Mr. Doyle concerned that a year has elapsed and nobody in the Department is aware that the situation was described as a national emergency? There is a lack of resources...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I specifically asked Mr. Doyle five minutes ago who from the Department has reached out to the office. Mr. Doyle told me nobody had done so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I asked had anyone from the Department reached out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: Mr. Doyle will be aware of the crisis in the retained fire service and the unfortunate circumstances that have led to retained firefighters being forced to initiate industrial action, which will start next week on 6 June. It will quickly escalate from there to a rolling strike from 13 June and an all-out strike from 20 June unless meaningful solutions are found to the crisis in the retained...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I am aware of that. I will get to it in a minute. The Department believes there is a recruitment and retention issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: It was stated at the Chief Fire Officers Association conference last year or the year before that the retained service is simply no longer fit for purpose. Is that a view shared by the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: The report Mr. Doyle referred to, which I think was published in December, makes 13 key recommendations. I am not sure whether Mr. Doyle is aware of the recommendations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: All have been accepted. Okay. Mr. Doyle will be aware that the breakdown in negotiations between the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, and representatives of the retained fire services a couple of weeks ago was because of a failure to move forward on some of these recommendations around remuneration. Am I correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: I believe agreement was reached in principle, and on foot of that, the LGMA put a proposal to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. That is where the problem arose. That Department essentially refused to provide funding to implement what the LGMA proposed and what came out of the negotiations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023) John Brady: As it stands, negotiations have broken down. Firefighters will initiate industrial action stemming from a vote they took last year when more than 90% of them said "enough is enough". That stemmed from the results of a previous survey of firefighters that stated 60% of them do not see a future because of the work-life balance and all the other issues. As we currently sit here, negotiations...