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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: How many houses will the Department acquire this year through the Part V mechanism?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is Mr. McCarthy familiar with the report on unfinished housing estates that was published yesterday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department is nearly there and I give it credit for that. What interaction is there between the Department and the four local authorities concerned in respect of the completion of the 1,084 vacant units within the surveyed unfinished developments? I believe the Department indicated there were 256 such estates. There are four counties that have over 100 such units on their lists. These...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: As I said earlier, most of the work is already done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are 135 vacant units in Laois which we could fill very easily without going outside of the county.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is stated on page 17 of the report that savings of €2.2 million arose owing to slower than anticipated uptake in the national taking-in-charge of estates initiative. Did the Department provide any funding under this heading last year or this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: What number of estates per local authority have not yet been taken in charge?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. McCarthy send on to us the number of estates-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Five thousand estates to be taken in charge-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it 5,000 housing units or 5,000 estates?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: A developer might not want to take it in charge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: How many in the system are being considered for being taking in charge?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy might send us those details. I was going to raise that anyway but the press release from Mr. McCarthy's Department yesterday refers to the unfinished housing estates and further states: "This knowledge [the knowledge the Department has obtained on that] and expanded capabilities can also now be applied towards matters of Taking in Charge and Vacant Homes Action Plans ...". We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will conclude on a sad note. In respect of the meeting today with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, we are here since 10.30 a.m. and nobody has mentioned the issue of homelessness. It is a sad reflection on the witnesses' side of the table and this side of the table that we have gone from morning to 6.30 p.m. without that word being mentioned once. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy answered the questions he was asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Permanently.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. It has been a very long day and a very long fortnight. The members will be pleased to know that we will adjourn now until our next public meeting at 9 a.m. on Thursday, 22 March, when we will meet with witnesses from the Departments of Finance, Public Expenditure, Reform and Taoiseach and Education and Skills and Transport Infrastructure Ireland regarding public private partnerships....
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Data (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: 198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of compulsory retirements on ill health grounds in the Irish Prison Service in each of the past 20 years; the number that were work related and non-work related respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11105/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (8 Mar 2018)
Seán Fleming: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances surrounding officers out on sick leave which is work related and these officers being placed on TRR in view of he fact the Irish Prison Service will not allow them to return to the workplace even in circumstances in which the Office of the Chief Medical Officer has cleared...