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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Am I right in saying that, if someone wants to avail of a grant to upgrade his or her septic tank, it first has to fail an inspection?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a specific scheme for domestic wastewater treatment systems in houses situated in high-status objective catchment areas. There is a large catchment area in Waterford that covers most of the Comeragh Mountains and another out in west Waterford. When I conducted a mail-out on this matter, no one in those areas was aware of the scheme, which I believe involves 80% grant funding. What...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As I understand it, there is still money in the pot because it has not been drawn down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A massive part of Wicklow, much of Clare and large swathes of west Cork are in these catchment areas, and those are only the ones that come to mind from looking at the issue. There is no uptake.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am reminded of the Clinton-era military policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. The flip side of this coin is the issue of private wells. We are not testing them in any sort of meaningful way. I imagine that the percentage of private water solutions being tested in real time mirrors that of septic tanks being tested. We can focus on Uisce Éireann, and the EPA...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: These are two sides of the same coin. If we have bad septic tanks-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to make the specific request, coming back to my earlier contribution, that the committee be provided with a breakdown of social housing by energy efficiency, building energy rating, BER, so that it has a clear idea of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Insofar as it is available. We would also like to be able to quantify what level of information is not available so that we understand, God help us, the known knowns and the unknown knowns or whatever that phrase is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Ideally by local authority area as well, if possible, so we know where we should be concentrating resources. Similarly, I would like information on the rate of testing of private septic tanks. We have a mixture of figures on that and I would like to know that by overall number per annum and by percentage. Could we have that by local authority area as well? I listened with interest to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is staffing the delay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am assuming that, considering the recent flooding events, this has become a priority.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What is the timeline for the completion of that piece of work? Have those recruitment issues been solved? Are people in place? Is the work ongoing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Doyle provide that to the committee because it is particularly pertinent at the minute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In terms of active travel spend, this gets channelled through the National Transport Authority, NTA, but a lot of it gets spent through our local authorities. I have a concern that a lot of money has been spent on the design stage and particularly the outsourcing of the design stage to consultancies. Does Mr. Doyle have an analysis of how much money is being spent on the design stage and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Local authorities are doing an awful lot of this work during their Part 8s or the section 38s.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to come back to the flip side of the coin I spoke about earlier in terms of septic tanks. I have a figure around small private supply. Leaving aside the group water schemes, things Deputy Dillon spoke about and the bigger infrastructural pieces, for small private supplies, which is the private well, I have a figure of 1,700 of these being registered with local authorities. When I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sorry; Mr. Towey gave me a percentage. We are mixing apples and oranges again in terms of the measures. Mr. Towey gave me a figure on how many households are dependent on a well. What was that figure again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I have 1,700 as an absolute figure. How many households does that translate to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The figure is 210,000 from which we have 1,700 of these wells.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does that essentially mean we have no picture at all in terms of the water quality of a lot of private wells?