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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Let me go about it another way. The decision has also been made as part of this that the Government is going to buy another hotel. I have spoken to at least a dozen Ministers in this Government and they laugh at this, including some of the Ministers involved. They laugh at the idea that the Government is buying hotels because they took over a hotel in the town. People are rolling their...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Where is it at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I would appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: As Mr. McCarthy is aware, I had to wait for about three months to get these statistics with regard to the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection, BOTP, and international protection, IP, applicants broken down by local electoral area, LEA. I do not think they are public. That is not the issue. I believe that information provision and transparency are the Department's friends with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: However, another hotel has gone in Kenmare in the last week or so and there are no extra places in Killiney-Shankill.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: That is very important.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: That would save us going around again, in fairness.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Yes, that is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Let Deputy Murphy ask one round of questions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I do. In my own turn, obviously.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry I thought I was next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: No. I will go after Deputy Murphy. I bow to her.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I will go next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: In fairness to the witnesses, they have supplied us with a lot of data, unlike some witnesses who have come before us previously, and we have been able to access data. I appreciate that, even though we have some concerns as a committee. I do not have time to get all the information I request, so I will ask to have some information sent to us later. Will Mr. McCarthy provide a list of all...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: The Department does not necessarily survey the buildings but it works in conjunction with local authorities and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. If Mr. McCarthy does not know the answer, he should ask them and then revert to the committee. The presence of asbestos is sometimes used as an excuse for not using a building. I would like to know whether buildings are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: According to the documentation, there have been over 100 expressions of interest in providing modular developments. What is the exact figure? Over 100 could mean 1,000. Is the figure 110, 140 or 150? How many are there? As this is a sensitive matter, I have asked for information on the number of people coming in under both categories, broken down by local electoral area. That...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: There is communication with the local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I ask Ms Rooney to be quick.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: No. That is not what I want. I ask the officials to do specifically what I ask because otherwise we will end up doing the work. I ask for a list setting out, since the beginning of this Government, the criteria used for the two different categories and the dates on which they changed, right up to today.