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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I thank the witness for that. I want to move on to the second question regarding housing. The witness responded to a question from an Teachta Cassells about the four-stage process in which a local authority applies for funding for social housing and the time it takes for the cheque finally to arrive. My understanding is that the average wait time is about 18 months. That has been a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: What are the four stages of the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: In terms of each of those processes, the local authority has to get approval from the Department every step of the way. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Am I correct in saying that it can take 18 months on average? Am I correct in saying that there are still some proposals in the system going back as far as 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: With respect, I understand that the Department has to be satisfied that the process is appropriate and so on. I accept all of that. There has to be a process. To cut to the chase, the witness accepts that the Department and local authorities have accepted that there is a problem and they are trying to resolve it. The Department has carried out a review. Further action may now be put in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I ask the witness to deal with the question of de-risk before the other question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: In plain English, does that mean sharing the risk?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Does the witness see it as sharing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I have other topics, but to be fair to the other members I will come back in later.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: I want to come back to a number of issues I raised earlier and put a different slant or angle on some of the issues. We spoke earlier about funding for housing provision and it was more in the context of trying to speed up the procurement process and the allocation of funds from the Department or housing agency to local authorities. We have dealt with that. Obviously, a substantial issue...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: To whenever Mr. McCarthy can.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There has been an increase but it is coming from a very low base.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: We now have the housing action plan in which there are a number of proposals. I am trying to establish whether they are being utilised, the level of support there is for them in the Department and the level of uptake in local authorities. There was a proposal that local authorities could borrow to build or acquire properties. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Was there a proposal in the action plan that they might be able to borrow?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Is Mr. McCarthy sure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There is a proposal to have a non-Government borrowing fund. For example, it would be money from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: This would have come from the Oireachtas committee on housing which also published its own report. Under the non-Government borrowing fund, they could have utilised money from credit unions or long-term pension funds and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: Is that in place or is the Department looking at putting such a fund in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: In terms of acquisitions, I come back to this issue of vacant properties. Does the Department have a register, or even a vague understanding, of how many vacant residential properties exist in the State? Would Mr. McCarthy have even a rough figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) David Cullinane: There are 200,000 vacant properties.