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Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Shane Cassells: Hear, hear.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Shane Cassells: They have pixie fairies building the houses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (16 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: 623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is bringing forward any plans to facilitate the entry by Irish Water employees or their agents to private dwellings in order to be able to deal with waste water issues in pipes located on private property and deal with waste water blockages across individual homes and housing estates where pipes are located...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: 1340. To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce the promised schemes to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant schemes, which were discontinued for new applicants, pending a review which was announced in February 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25770/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff, as always, for the excellent reports prepared for and presented to us. This is my first time to meet Mr. Watt and I thank him for his presence here today, for his frankness and positive approach with respect to his statement and the answers provided. I note the Comptroller and Auditor General's confidence in that he stated that he...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: The report, as has been stated by the Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr. Watt, does not go into the actual reasons for severance. Mr. Watt spoke earlier about the benefits. Can he give me a flavour of those? I have a concern about the safeguards in place for the recruitment process. Mr. Watt said the benefits would far outweigh the negatives where somebody is in charge of hundreds if...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: They are all fully public with pictures beside them.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: That would bring us into another debate on the core problems rather than it being seen as the optimum recourse in dealing with problems within the public service in general.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that but it was referred to earlier in the discussion and I want to get a flavour of it because it is helpful for people in general, even though the Comptroller and Auditor General has clarified it by saying he that thinks it is a better course to pursue in the long term in respect of future cases. From our point of view, that is interesting.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I thank Mr. Watt.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: Chairman, can that be identified?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: The committee dealt with an issue in respect of the North Meath Communities Development Association Limited in January last. There was a very detailed outline of where there should be a resolution to this matter. The matter has not been resolved. I know the committee also referred this matter to the Department of the Taoiseach in January. During the summer the North Meath Communities...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I would appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (28 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: 41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Meath Garda division. [27397/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (28 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of community gardaí in the Meath Garda division. [27396/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Chairman and Mr. McCarthy. Two weeks ago, when this broke in the media in terms of the work that was going to be conducted, I thought one of the most striking comments was from Sean Whelan in RTE. He referred to what was the unprecedented stand-off between Mr. McCarthy's office and NAMA, which obviously generated and captured the public attention. We have then had a series of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that, and obviously the members of this committee appreciate the factual report Mr. McCarthy has put forward. What interests me is the response to it from NAMA. We we will hear from and question its representatives later. However, there seems to be bully-boy tactics at play. Deputy Cullinane asked about NAMA operating in the real world and Frank Daly, in his own words, said...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: Mr. McCarthy stated this morning that "there [may be] strategic and commercial reasons why NAMA might prefer an early loan sale" and that it is a business decision and not something he would comment on. In response to Deputy Burke, Mr. McCarthy said that once they went for that option, there was an immediate acceptance that there was going to be a bigger discount, so Mr. McCarthy is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: Okay. I have a limited amount of time. In respect of the process of sale and record keeping, Mr. McCarthy said that there were no adequate records of the key decisions for Project Eagle kept by NAMA. Is that one of the most worrying aspects of this for Mr. McCarthy in his report? It obviously gives rise to potential assertions in respect of incompetency at the worst and otherwise at...