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Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: As the Tánaiste is well aware the housing crisis is very serious, and he was personally involved in many of the public announcements by the Government on this particular issue. The news yesterday that the number of homeless families increased in the month of February is exceptionally disappointing and is totally unacceptable in Irish society. There are now 3,755 children homeless in...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste quoted statistics of 123% of this and 26,000 of that. This is cold comfort to the people who are homeless tonight. He mentioned the Government would build 100,000 houses over ten years, so it will take ten years to clear the housing list in this country, and that is without anyone else coming on to the housing list in the next ten years. The Tánaiste said he does not...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----on how this new Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme is working. I have them here. I have ten refusals from various local authorities and I have quoted the reasons. My comment was the scheme has got off to a bad start. Local authorities are refusing right, left and centre. All it takes is a phone call from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to find out how many...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I did not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is present as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Maureen Mulligan, deputy director of audit. Are the minutes of the meeting of 22 March agreed? Agreed. I have not been notified of any apologies. We will deal with matters arising as we discuss the work programme. We will now deal with correspondence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the document I have here the last paragraph on page 3 refers to the status of the EU case. It is stated that full details of the programme of measures that Ireland agreed to deliver to ensure compliance with the judgment, including the costs incurred, to June 2015 by the State are set out in the enclosed document which Ireland and the then Department of the Environment, Community and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is that the site at Naas?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is why I highlighted this letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy please explain trans-shipment? Is it between the North and South and abroad?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am looking at the last page of the letter again from Mark Griffin, the Secretary General. He states that 27 historical municipal landfill sites have received Exchequer funding, which includes remediation work. He states that 11 sites have been completed, which means 16 have not been completed. We will ask for a list of the 11 that have been completed and the cost to date. There are 16...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Defence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will write immediately for specifics on it. If work is ongoing this year, we will put it on our work programme but it probably will be the autumn. Let us see what happens over the next six months but we will come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will ask what has been recouped in the letter about the private sites. Some outfits just dumped it and went bust. We know that too. We will ask them what has been recouped. He should know the position. We will send the letter straight away but we will come back to it in more detail later in the year. The next item of correspondence is No. 1194B from Neil McDermott of the Higher...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane indicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with this item of correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: It goes without saying that while we cannot impose sanctions, perhaps in our next report we might be in a position to recommend and specify some type of sanction that would be implemented by the relevant Department. We will not implement it but we can make a recommendation that there be some sanctions. We might even specify them at that stage. My instinct is our main challenge would be to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: This is a broader issue. With regard to the HSE sanction, all Secretaries General should see what Tony O'Brien did. He said to every funded organisation that unless accounts were submitted on time, there would be a delay in funding until accounts were submitted. All those organisations came into line. What if the Department of Education and Skills were to do that with everybody under its...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane, and then we will try to move on to the next section.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: I think we should send a letter back to Mr. Watt asking him for the date of when that new circular on official entertainment is going to be updated, telling him we think it is appropriate to develop specific guidelines and that he might commence work on that straight away. The next item of correspondence is No. 1204 from Mr. William Beausang, assistant secretary of the Department of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: On this particular issue I think the public will take some satisfaction from an achievement by the Committee of Public Accounts. Some people ask what actually happens as a result of our meeting. We had the meeting here last year. As long as any of us have been here, we have never seen a post-project review of a public private partnership project. It has not happened. We had quite a...