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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
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, those arrangements are being made with individual property owners. This is not a hands-off relationship. The Department is providing the service on site. If something is not right, I would expect the Department, IPAS and so to be the ones driving the solution.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In the absence of a fire safety certificate for residential use, fire marshals would be-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will come back in the second round on those other points. I want to touch on the area of birth information and tracing. Many people in this House accused Government Deputies of sealing the records of mother and baby homes. However, this year thousands of people will be applying for birth information. It is a really important step for those people that they can have access to that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think I am out of time.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.I appreciate your discretion with the time. I suppose the-----

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Of course. The only elevation, Deputy McNamara, is the success of this policy. When I advocated it in this House a number of weeks ago, I said I thought we had reached the point where it would be possible to do it. It is important for us to say there are legal constraints on this. The points made by Deputies McNamara and Boyd Barrett outline the extent of the parameter. Ultimately, we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department in the Ballymun A Brighter Future Report commissioned by Dublin City Council and presented to An Taoiseach at the Dublin north-west area joint policing committee in July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 169. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department and the HSE in the Ballymun A Brighter Future Report commissioned by Dublin City Council and presented to An Taoiseach at the Dublin north west area joint policing committee in July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53630/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have four minutes; is that correct?

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I may take advantage of the time. I listened to much of the debate and I think it is important for us to remember what happened on budget day. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, put forward an €11 billion package to try to alleviate what we know to be an incredibly difficult period for people in...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay, excellent. I could go on but we will discuss it on Committee Stage. I want to talk about housing. I wish many of the Deputies who talk about housing actually attended the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage because when they say there is nothing in this budget for housing, they are ignoring a €4 billion and a €20 billion package. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the salaries for community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53371/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank both local authorities for being with us today. We want to try to capture how Housing for All is being implemented and what some of the roadblocks might be at a practical level that we can feed back to the Department. I am conscious that much of the legislation is very new. The Affordable Housing Act, for example, is just over 12 months old so I accept some of this is planning for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Ms Farrelly pre-empted my next question. Has the council outlined that yet because there was funding from the European Regional Development Fund for potential housing on the Dunsink lands. Has the council any idea of what quantity could be delivered there and at what point is the council at in terms of that project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: A similar expansion on the Dublin city map was the Meakstown area. As Ms Farrelly knows, it took quite a while for Fingal County Council to catch up with delivering some of the community services needed in that area. It was a largely private development but Fingal County Council is only now trying to retrofit some of those community facilities. I would hope that with the Dunsink...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. McLoughlin have any comments on capacity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. McLoughlin is right to broaden it out beyond land alone. That raises the question of resources, both budgetary, available through the Housing for All multi-annual budget, and staffing. Do the witnesses think both local authorities have the numbers of people and finances needed, using Ms Farrelly's phrase, " to exceed those targets"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I might come back on the affordability issue as there a lot of questions on that area. What is the opinion on the broader issue of staffing and resources?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I want to turn to the Department's role in establishing remote policy across the Civil Service. Remarkable things were done during the Covid pandemic with regard to seeing what was possible to do through remote working. Thousands of social welfare payments were processed in a manner and from places which we would probably never have sanctioned or...