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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: Does Mr. McCarthy have the figure for Galway?

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: A 46% inspection rate in Galway city. What about the county?

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: They are households; the figure is for the number of households, not people.

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: Households; it is a lot more people.

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: That was bound to happen; many have gone to HAP units.

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 might get a clarification in due course.

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: Let me just go back to HAP. There is nothing wrong with a sense of any scheme providing support. We need to support people. When it is the major player in the housing market, I have a serious problem regarding value for money. When a figure doubles within a year and continues to increase, I have a serious problem as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts. Built into that is lack of...

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: Separate from the Oireachtas committee, was the association invited in by the Department? Did its members provide feedback on the rising housing crisis? I take Galway for example where no construction of any social house took place from 2010 onwards. I am sure it is the same in other local authorities. Was that fed back through the association, namely the rising crisis that was going to...

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: Did Mr. Murray hear my question?

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 do not mean to take Mr. Murray short but I have only a few minutes. In the specific role, did the association feed back to the Department the rising crisis as a result of an absence of direct local authority housing construction? Was that fed back through the association?

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. Murray is chair of that housing 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 Connolly: How long has Mr. Murray been chair?

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: Was Mr. Murray on the committee prior to 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: Are there documents available that show that the committee of which Mr. Murray is a member fed back to the local authority to say, "For God's sake, look at what is going to happen. If no housing is built, it is going to create a huge crisis". Are there documents or minutes of meetings where I can see that - "Yes" or "No"?

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: But Mr. Murray is chair of the housing committee now.

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: No. I was very specific. Did the association feed back the facts on the ground to the effect that there was no construction of local housing and that a crisis was on the horizon? Was that fed back to the Government?

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: "No" is the answer so I will move back now-----

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: Did Mr. Murray feed back?

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: No. He did not feed back to Department as a result of his committee. A rising crisis from 2010 onwards with no construction-----

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 accept that. I hear what Mr. Murray is telling me.