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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: That does not mean that people from the Traveller community are not housed in traditional local authority housing or supported by housing assistance payments, etc.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Could we receive some indication of the extent to which this happens? Are statistics kept? Would it be appropriate in the context of the number of people from the Traveller community who are being housed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Is the number living in homeless accommodation included? Those of us who deal routinely with Traveller families know that they are certainly finding it more difficult than most to find rented accommodation. It would be useful to see the challenge presented in numbers alsol.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I have just a few questions and the time will be tight. Rebuilding Ireland is a Government policy which the witnesses are required to carry out. Mr. McCarthy referred earlier to 50,000 houses per year. The all-party Oireachtas committee produced its report in 2016. The No. 1 item in the report in terms of the conclusions was to increase the social housing stock owned by local authorities...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Will that be achieved by 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Page 6 of Rebuilding Ireland sets out the housing ambition to 2021. It says that by 2021, the needs of more than 87,000 households will be met through supporting them into secure tenancies in the private rental sector, HAP and RAS. It is the ambition that 87,000 households will be in HAP or RAS. Is the Department projecting that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: The predominant response to the housing list is HAP and RAS up to 2021.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I am just looking at it from a value-for-money perspective.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Rents are escalating and if one builds a lot of houses, one influences the housing market for people who are not on housing waiting lists because there is increased supply. There is value for money in the approach that is taken. Last week, when the Irish Council for Social Housing appeared before the committee, its representatives set out an ambitious plan if a regulation was put on a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. McCarthy have figures for the average price across acquisitions and builds? The numbers are small enough and it may involve different parts of the country, which might distort things, but he has the figures, I ask that he provide them to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I will start on Irish Water, the figure of €292 million, the significant staffing levels and the significant transfer of capital assets, which ran to somewhere in the region of €11 billion. I am reading from the end of page 19 of the appropriation accounts. I have asked several times about the audit falling under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General. When Irish...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: By whom are they audited at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: As such, there would have to be a change to the legislation if Irish Water were to come within the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Is that what Mr. McCarthy is telling us?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: We are not about to see something.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: I refer to page 22 and the reference to the Office of the Planning Regulator. I note the comment that legislation had not gone through in that year, but it has gone through since. Is it an independent office or will it continue to be within the remit of the Department because the final say is with the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: On the same page there is mention of a development contribution rebate scheme. The following is not completely related, but as development contributions came in, it was determined in the context of the overall Government debt that some of the money had to be held on deposit. One could only spend what was coming in that year. Is that still the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: Might it depend on which local authority is involved? I imagine the experience in Fingal, Meath, Kildare and the outer suburbs of Galway and Cork might be different from the general experience.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: There is a visual aspect in relation to the very large amount of money held on deposit, whereas there are things that need to be done. One tends to find that the areas where there is rapid population growth are also in the main the areas with a low baseline. There will be the additional questions, but I wanted to ask about the baselines. When I listened on the monitor earlier, I heard that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Catherine Murphy: If the impact is to be neutral overall, it tells me something about how it might go.