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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Does it receive its grant through Horse Racing Ireland? Is it a subset?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I have no issue in respect of overtime and that aspect. That will be accounted for in respect of this visit. There was quite a short lead-in time in terms of the known date and procurement for other aspects such as fencing and so on. It does not strike me that there was time to have adequate procurement on this with multiple tenders and so on. There is an issue around that. What are the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Some of these are from 2002 and 2009. Obviously the 2002 properties are a legal obligation and the 2009 ones are a moral obligation. Given the particular sector in question, I would have thought the moral obligation would have been almost on a par with the legal obligation, but so be it. We have all said this kind of stuff before. I want to find out about one or two practical things....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I presume the HSE is not paying rent on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I concur on the wider issue. I have come across matters such as mattresses being required. It is across the spectrum. The other response concerned the Portlaoise review group. I recall somebody stating that other inquiries that were carried out should not just sit there and be viewed as nothing more than a cost and that lessons should be learned from them. It might have been Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I am talking about the other inquires that were carried out. The matter was raised one of our meetings in the past couple of weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: All right. It is covered. The State Claims Agency will come back to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The chief executives have overall responsibility for the local authorities of which they are the chief executives of. I refer to drilling down into some of the aspects. Housing goes across a range of different departments within a local authority - for example, the oversight of approved housing bodies is one while the likes of the delivery of local authority housing and builds is another....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but they have to provide their accounts, for example. It is one aspect of a number of issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The clerk asked that I would expand on what I am seeking and I can expand further after the meeting. I am seeking to get to the net point-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Essentially , this is the item that I want us to examine closely. I want us to set aside time to explore it. The net point is that the MANs contract was extended in March 2017. Then the Irish Infrastructure Fund purchased 78% and subsequently, the remaining 22%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Granahan McCourt is the entity behind Enet. Enet was involved in the roll out of broadband in the metropolitan area networks, MANs, of which there are 94 in the country. The original contract was up to 2019 but in 2017 it was extended to 2030 without a tender. Another entity was looking to tender for the contract, prior to it being rolled over. Essentially, I am asking if value for money...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, I want it included on the work programme as part of the broadband issue and I would like it to be addressed as soon as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: All of the witnesses are welcome. I will try to keep my questions focused. I would appreciate succinct replies in order that I can get in as much as possible in the 20 minutes available to me. I would like the Comptroller and Auditor General to clarify something on page 125 of the report. He mentions in chapter 10.35 that he audits the accounts of the Department and the Housing and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: I would like to get a sense of something on the same page of the report. There are approximately 500 approved housing bodies. Obviously, there are tiers. How many of them would be tier 3 bodies which I understand are the larger ones? What percentages fall into the other two groups?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is. There are a number of sources of funding from the Department, including capital to build in the first instance. An amount for the maintenance of housing stock can also be drawn down annually as long as there is compliance. From what I am reading, I presume that the latter would only have been drawn down by the organisations that were complying with the voluntary code.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: Is there any oversight of AHBs' cash reserves? Most have mortgages but some do not. I understand some may have sizable reserves. Does this impact on the drawdown of maintenance funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: As the notes cross a range of issues, I will dip in and out of them. Paragraph 10.25 on page 123 reads:In addition, the local authority pays the AHB an annual management and maintenance fee for each unit. These fees are also recouped by the local authority from the Department under the scheme. How is that decided? How much was drawn down in 2017?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018) Catherine Murphy: That is counted in the housing budget.