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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (1 Jul 2014)
John McGuinness: 576. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued as a matter of urgency to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [28467/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: With regard to public accountability, there is a significant infrastructure, which has been paid for by the taxpayer down through the years and which will continue to be funded over the next three years to the tune of €650 million. I am sure other arrangements will be put in place for funding from the taxpayer. Meanwhile taxpayers will pay for water. As a matter of proper...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: It is €11 billion but the local authorities and the taxpayer are getting nothing for that except a recognition within the process of establishing how much water charges will be by the regulator. That transfer will be reflected in what the user is expected to pay in some way.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: The €200 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: So Irish Water is getting €11 billion in assets and €200 million in loans. That is its business. Over the next three years, another €650 million will be provided for the network. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I understand that. This is another State agency. It is being given €11 billion in assets and over the next three years it will be given €650 million to repair and maintain the network and so on while €200 million worth of loans is being transferred to it as well. This is all taxpayers' money and individual taxpayers are being asked to pay a certain amount per year for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: It does not look like a great deal for the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I understand that but the cost the taxpayer will pay is substantial.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Local authorities were incapable of doing it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Ms Graham is not the Accounting Officer for Irish Water but what we have witnessed so far from the company has not impressed many people in terms of the cost of consultants, similar to the Poolbeg project, and the cost of IT systems, iPads and a gym. All this has to be paid back by the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: But all that money is taxpayers' money and it does not seem as if we have set out to achieve full transparency in the operation of Irish Water and I am concerned about the value for money we have received to date. To underline the commitment of the Departments of Finance or Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure Irish Water delivers and we have oversight and so on, is the Comptroller and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Is that not amazing? I acknowledge it is a policy matter. Perhaps it was an oversight but I cannot understand why €11 billion in assets and €200 million in loans was transferred from local authorities, which cannot be audited, to Irish Water, which will not be audited, millions of euro in taxpayer funding has been, and will be, spent on the network and, at the end of day, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I checked that last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: The local authority owns the site.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I ask Mr. McCarthy to investigate the background.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: In regard to the debt carried by councils generally, can Mr. McCarthy provide a table showing the amount of money that each local authority owes?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: I would like an up-to-date version of the table. Can a similar table be made available in respect of rent arrears on local authority houses and arrears on commercial rates and water charges?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: In real money terms, what is owed to local authorities, in a single figure, for arrears in rents, commercial water charges, loans and commercial rates?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: What are the figures on the moneys owed to local authorities in rent arrears and rates arrears?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014) John McGuinness: Can Mr. McCarthy update the figures until 2014?