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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It would also be useful to have the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in the discussion but it is reluctant to comment on other Departments before us. It has refused to do so previously. The suggestion made by Deputy Murphy would be a good start.

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: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I have just come from the Committee on Public Accounts where we had a discussion with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that centred on the issue of density, cost and the word "viability", which we continue to use. I am approaching this discussion having just come from that one. We are talking about land value sharing....

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: Due to important considerations around commuting and all those other issues, apartments are needed. However, we do not have a discussion often enough about the fact that in adopting a planning policy that requires apartments, in effect, we have said we will never have another set of for-profit, owner-purchase type units in Dublin city without the State heavily subsidising them, in some cases...

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: In the city, there is very little left to be developed. There are some brownfield industrial sites. In Ballymun for example, there are at least ten sites the council would give for nothing to anyone who approached it and said they would build housing on them. We have expressions of interest out at the moment for the Ballymun shopping centre site which will have a housing element. It will...

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: If the land is outside the city, it will not necessarily impact on the land value in the city. It is a different market.

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: There is cost rental.

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: I have one final question. That poses a challenge for the industry, too. As for the traditional model of acquiring development land, gaining capital, building a project and then selling it on, we are effectively saying that will not happen any more in the city core areas. That is a big challenge, because you will either need to have long-term build-to-rent or very significant State subsidy...

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: Yes, exactly. We cannot inflict the full societal cost of climate on an individual because he or she will simply not be able to afford it. There has to be a State element to it. That is not to undermine the really important climate objectives, but we cannot expect an individual to bear that full burden.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (1 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 66. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Finglas primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26697/23]

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

Paul McAuliffe: It is interesting when we have Bills where there is large amount of consensus, it often gives us the time in this House to talk about the other issues we would like to address to solve the core issue we are dealing with. I do not think we should underestimate the importance of the Bill. Deputy Catherine Murphy is right that there is always the potential for legislation to be a cheap way of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (31 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the citizenship application of a person (details supplied) who applied in July 2021, and is therefore beyond the average processing time. [26483/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State's outline of the process. In replies that constituency colleagues and I have been receiving since last year, it was promised that we would be at this stage many months ago. It is frustrating that an "accelerated" process has been anything but accelerated. I have very few focal Gaeilge, but the Minister of State would want to be telling the officials in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Student Accommodation (30 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Surprise, surprise,

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the opportunity to raise again the issue of Gealscoil Uí Earcáin, Fionnghlas. I have had the pleasure in this House of speaking about the fantastic work done by the principal, parents and teachers of the school and also the great environment created principally by the children. Unfortunately, the school is very old. I attended it when it was under the patronage of the...