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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move to the procurement side of things. When the budget of a Department is increased by 100%, there are bound to be areas of non-compliant procurement. The Comptroller and Auditor General raised an issue in respect of the procurement of accommodation. Will Mr. McCarthy talk to us about the process of how sanction is given? Is there interaction with the Department of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: We want to avoid a situation where this year's accounts are being considered by the committee next year and we are talking about very high levels of non-compliant procurement or what the committee might consider bad value for money. Is the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth applying emergency oversights now so that the Comptroller and Auditor General will not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. McCarthy is saying procurement offers all of those things.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I have tested the Chair's patience.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: You are welcome to visit it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the figures in the quarter 4 report. Regardless of what figures we look at, we see last year's performance on housing was better than any other year for some time. Certainly in terms of public housing, we are back to where we were in previous decades. In my constituency, there are sites off Oscar Traynor Road, Collins Avenue, St. Joseph's Hill, Parkview, Church of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [6886/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the refund due in the following passport application which was cancelled in November 2020 (details supplied). [7158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roof repair for a school (details supplied). [7290/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That is okay. What is the situation regarding section 184?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it therefore the case that when that final decision is being made, that is one of the criteria that will be considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That is okay. I have a large number of suggestions for the IIP but will not be able to go through them all in the time I have left. In regard to the extension of the local development plan from a six-year plan to a ten-year plan, could the IIP comment on that and on how that might provide more certainty? As the IIP has mentioned a need for a stronger review mechanism and a stronger...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That is an important point and is one of the reasons each mandate of a council is a five-year term. I set a development plan in 2009 and 2010 and Dublin city was a very different place in 2020. Unless we made changes in 2016, it would not have been fit for purpose. Given that development plans have an impact even five or six years after they come into existence, that is a crucial point. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank all our witnesses for being here. There is an array of acronyms before us - CIF, IIP and PII. Wind Energy Ireland would be well advised not to shorten its name to an acronym. I acknowledge the submissions are useful at this stage of PLS because the slot for opening statements sometimes does not afford witnesses the time to make their full observations. It is inevitable in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Moran therefore think that requires a further amendment to the Maritime Area Planning Act or an extension within this legislation to those projects he referenced? What is the best mechanism he would recommend to ensure that the same timelines apply for both?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: This week, Dublin Bus announced it is back to pre-pandemic passenger levels. That places Ireland ahead of the international curve with places like the Netherlands and Canada still at 70%. There are, however, pressures on the system and both Dublin Bus and the private operators who appeared at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications said they are having issues with recruitment...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I may have missed this issue being raised. It relates to No. 1687. Can I speak on this issue now?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 181. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason that a person who lodged a redress of wrong on 22 July 2021 has not received a reply, despite an obligation to have a reply within three months. [5581/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: With the proposed changes around development plans, what is the justification for those being on a ten-year basis rather than a five-year basis, and what are the benefits or the implications of that change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: If I may focus on that, the development plan is one of the key powers that local councillors have. One would like to think that in each mandate or five-year term councillors would have an opportunity to have an impact on the shaping of the development plan. The concern would be that, given the two years of preparation involved and the ten-year life cycle, councillors will set plans in 2024,...