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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 Connolly: Yes. These payments are going directly to the private market where prices are going up and up. Is that not right? Rents are unsustainable. It is impossible. This is the report from the local authority. I am sticking to facts. It is impossible to get private accommodation in Galway, but Government policy is to put more and more money into the private market. Let us take HAP on its own....
- 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 Connolly: Is that the precise figure?
- 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 Connolly: In 2018, it was €277 million. I understood it was €300 million.
- 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 Connolly: What is the projected figure for 2019?
- 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 Connolly: Mr. McCarthy must let me dwell on that figure. I am not good on figures. That is €423 million under HAP alone. What is the figure for the rental accommodation scheme, RAS? I presume it should be going down because people are getting off RAS.
- 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 Connolly: I am looking at those figures. I do not need to waste time.
- 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 Connolly: I mean I do not need to waste my time. The figures are there, so what point is Mr. McCarthy making about them?
- 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 Connolly: Yes.
- 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 Connolly: Mr. McCarthy can elaborate on all this. I also spent 19 years as a city councillor. I know all this. I know that RAS will go down as more and more people go into HAP. We know that. Mine is a bigger question around the enormous amount of money going into the private market.
- 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 Connolly: What year was 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 Connolly: Coincidentally, just prior to that, in Galway City Council we were told that no more funding was available for public housing. I am very familiar with this. I bore people here by repeating it. Not a single publicly funded house was constructed in Galway from 2010 until last year, when 14 houses were completed, as I understand. Is that not interesting, at a time when money was going into...
- 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 Connolly: I ask Mr. McCarthy to stay with me. Nothing went into Galway city for direct social housing. We got quarterly reports. This is all factual. We got columns showing what was proposed, the amount of money, and in the final column it said "construction suspended" on every single quarterly report from 2010 forward. That is one of the major reasons we have a housing crisis. It is one of the...
- 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 Connolly: What is the figure for the rental accommodation scheme this year?
- 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 Connolly: We will get all the other figures. It is going straight into the private market. When, on behalf of the policy he has to implement, Mr. McCarthy talks about social housing, he is talking about private houses with very little security of tenure. Is that right?
- 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 Connolly: HAP was not there in 2011.
- 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 Connolly: Rent supplement and those payments were all temporary payments. They were to be temporary payments that became a permanent fixture.
- 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 Connolly: I have looked at the totality. The totality is that almost 10,000 people are homeless, which does not count those who are - I hate the words - "couch surfing", those women who are in refuges and so on. Let us be realistic. If Mr. McCarthy wants to say it is Government policy, we stick with that and the officials implement it. However, when there is a view in respect of it, that is...
- 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 Connolly: Yes, just give it to me.
- 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 Connolly: Really, I am not trying to find fault, but there is a statutory responsibility to inspect. How many inspections have been carried out, are appropriate staff levels in place and if not, why? That is all I want to find out.
- 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 Connolly: It was as low as 30% somewhere. Where was that?