Results 1-20 of 66 for going forward speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...year. For a Government agency to lose or set aside - I am not even sure what the correct word is - €150 million, albeit for probably very good transport reasons in order that we will have a better system going forward for €10 billion, can the witnesses talk to us about the business case of how that decision was made? Was it accepted that amount of money would be lost when...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I acknowledge the motivation of Deputy Ward in bringing forward the Bill earlier in the week. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on making this time available to discuss this issue. At the core of both of those things is a recognition that we know the people coming to our clinics need a better service. That is where we have to start. If we get into the game of second-guessing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...of the amendment draws on the feedback received on the proposal to remove exempted development from primary legislation. It appears the Minister intends to deal with exempted development by way of secondary legislation going forward. There is a concern, particularly among the utility providers, that this is one of the elements of the planning system that works very well at local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Department be in a position to bring forward those regulations in advance of Report Stage or in advance of the Bill going to the Seanad?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Going forward into the new organisation, are there any child-specific measures that Ms Logan believes might assist her in carrying out her work?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the rights of the family. It was a conscious decision that we made. I am not opposed to the wording. These are just two different routes to the same place. In addressing the amendment put forward by the Labour group, I would like the Minister to try to answer some of the queries we will get on the doorsteps. We have heard some of them here. I object to the idea that recognising...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the remunicipalisation of bin services in our city because this is one of the issues raised most regularly with us on the doorsteps. While I might disagree with some of the narrative about how we got here, I do not disagree that the way forward is certainly not clear. The Taoiseach has indicated that this is within the power of the local authorities. With a very weak local government...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...our current planning framework is more than 20 years old. Many things have changed within that period. That Bill was based on legislation dating back nearly 40 years. It is only right that a new Government that comes to office seeking to bring in new, clean energy, new infrastructure and new housing would look at the methodology of delivering that through the planning system. It is...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...clear and independent assessment of what happened in the course of the budget and of what is happening in the course of this House passing the social welfare Bill. It underlines the efforts within the Government to help those people who are struggling with the cost-of-living increases, and we accept that is happening. Many of the sources of the cost-of-living increases are international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ..., because I do not disagree with anything anyone said - the lack of detail from the citizens' assembly is really disappointing because a lot of people hoped it could be the platform to bring this forward. The alternative could be worse as well. The Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023 proposes that every county will have the power to initiate a directly elected mayor except the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Probation and Welfare Service (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and his service in the Probation Service. I know Joe Duffy on RTÉ Radio has also discussed this case. I appreciate it is an incredibly sensitive issue, but, unfortunately, a victim who has come forward to me has said that he feels there is a cul-de-sac now in terms of justice. He feels that, like many other institutions where sexual abuse took place, there is always a stigma in...

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...by responding to a really useful point made by Deputy Ó Ríordáin. I welcome the changes that have been made to promote gender equality and how sports capital funding might be aligned to that goal by using real tools within the process. Deputy Ó Ríordáin also referred to the idea of sports clubs coming together. We all know that any groups coming together...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...for being here today. I will preface this by saying I would not normally speak on this kind of industrial relations issue. I believe that industrial relations matters are best dealt with in a negotiation room. They are often best dealt with in advance of strike action, although I fully accept that the right to strike and use of strike action is an important tool for workers. If that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being here. Many people might be asking if we are going over old ground and if we do not know this already. I have said previously that the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media has a separate remit and function to us. We have a specific remit from the Dáil to draft a report, document what happened and make recommendations on procedures....

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...saying that would have been preferable, but there perhaps would have been public opinion in favour of having done that. To do this through the Oireachtas annually, I believe, protected the overall goal that these are extraordinary powers. Previous governments did not go down the route of seeking a constitutional amendment for non-jury courts, which, as I said, could have secured public...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...we are now subsidising housing units up to the scale of €100,000 or €150,000 per unit. In the city, even with those numbers, we are struggling to build units. Deputy Verona Murphy made a very good point. I said, "as a society", but she is right. I am not sure we have had that conversation about the shift towards apartments being very positive from a planning and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the State has to give the builder €100,000 or €150,000 per unit to deliver them. My problem is that I am stuck in the moment. I am not saying that land value sharing is not important. It is going forward. Outside Dublin there a key role for it so I am not opposed to the legislation. However, my constituency is in the city and the people on the housing waiting list are...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...support. They are: the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use; the intervention by the Taoiseach to propose a child poverty unit within the Department of An Taoiseach; and the previous Taoiseach's, and programme for Government, commitment to roll out area-based interventions, or the north-east inner city model. It is much bigger than one piece of legislation. It involves changes in policy on...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...restrictions and so on, that the witnesses come before the Committee of Public Accounts and we are unable to quantify the mistake. If we cannot quantify it, we cannot improve the processes as we go forward.