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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 McGuinness: We should bring it to its attention.

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 McGuinness: I wish to raise two other items. Deputy Sean Fleming raised the issue of homelessness in the context of the work done in refurbishing houses. I am always taken aback by the number of local authority houses that continue to remain unoccupied. I know from my constituency which covers two counties, Carlow and Kilkenny, that there is an unacceptably high number of local authority houses 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 McGuinness: Therefore, the hold-up is not in the Department but elsewhere?

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 McGuinness: Can Mr. McCarthy give me any idea of what is happening in respect of houses that need to be refurbished?

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 McGuinness: It is fair to say there is funding available and that a concerted effort is being made to do the work?

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 McGuinness: Could the same effort be made in the provision of wetrooms and making houses accessible for people who are disabled or the elderly who have fallen ill? There is a list, but according to my information many local authorities do not have any money to proceed in 2015. They are dealing with applications made in 2014.

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 McGuinness: Is that funding matched by the local authorities?

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 McGuinness: A local authority may be at fault in not coming up with 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 McGuinness: Will Mr. McCarthy provide a note on the Poolbeg project, rather than go into detail on it now?

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 McGuinness: I mentioned it in the context of people ending up in hotels when it would have been cheaper to maintain them in the accommodation in which they had been living, even at higher rent. People were not granted an increase in rent allowance or payments under other schemes to meet the rise in their rent.

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 McGuinness: Does the Deputy have further questions?

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 McGuinness: This has been a test case. In the past few weeks we broke at lunchtime and members had a second wind when we came back. As a result, we did not get out until 4 p.m. As such, I did not mention taking a break at 1 p.m. and we are finishing at 2.10 p.m. I thank everybody for their patience. Will we dispose of Vote 25, chapter 5 and special report No. 84? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for jobseeker's allowance or benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [25583/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance currently under appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [25588/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 May 2015, if he is aware that the HEO forum, customs at the airport and Dublin Port and other employees have expressed objections to the changes being introduced to uniforms and logos; that the information contained in the Parliamentary Question has come as a surprise to most of the frontline workers, who...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Staff (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a resolution will be expedited in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, relative to their complaints regarding the Office of Public Works management; if the investigation into the issues raised by both persons has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25575/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider extending the children's play area at Kilkenny Castle to accommodate wheelchair users and the disabled; if furniture and play equipment, such as swings, will be provided for wheelchair users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25577/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments due to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny under the beef genomics scheme for 2013 and 2014 will be reviewed and paid; if the full circumstances of the case will be examined, as they are exceptional; and if he will expedite the matter. [25579/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 181. To ask the Minister for Health when a full medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the matter will be expedited. [25570/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation to remove cataracts will be arranged as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [25571/15]