Results 3,341-3,360 of 5,949 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council will have to cost that into the final price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In the context of the affordable housing fund, certainly for affordable purchase, it is basically cost minus the amount that can be drawn down from the affordable purchase. If, therefore, a house is brought in at €350,000 or €400,000, do you get €50,000 at the moment off the local authority-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It could be between €275,000 and €325,000, then, for affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being with us. On 26 August, Mr. Griffin wrote to the committee regarding the retrofitting programme, the targets and some of the changes in the funding of those. I ask him to help us untangle the carbon revenue levy account, the energy efficiency national account, the climate action account and the movement of funds between those accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: On what date was that approved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I wish to confirm that was moved into the EENF.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Okay. Mr. Griffin mentioned the better energy warmer homes schemes, which is incredibly popular. It is so popular that in Mr. Griffin’s correspondence he alluded to the fact that there is a delay of over 27 months in people being able to access that scheme. To get to the bottom of that, has Mr. Griffin given consideration to why those waiting times are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Griffin believes the waiting time for the better energy warmer homes scheme is now ten months.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Which full list is Mr. Griffin referring to?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Yes. Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: What is the waiting time for those people?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: It would be between ten and 12 months for the first 7,000 and approximately 28 months for the following 9,000. Are those figures compatible with each other?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There had been issues in advance of Covid.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Can the Department predict future demand?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Has the Department given consideration to the budgetary changes, such as the expansion of the eligibility for the fuel allowance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I saw one figure that showed that up to 80,000 people will benefit from additional fuel allowance payments, which are much needed at the moment. Why would any of those 80,000 people not apply for a scheme that allows them to have their home almost entirely insulated for free? The Department would have to expect that the decision to increase the fuel allowance will blow its figures out of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Only if they can get the service.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I will be doing my very best to register as many people from my constituency as possible for the scheme, as I am sure others will be as well. Even if half of those 80,000 additional people make an application in January, that is an additional 40,000 people, which is four times the additional amount that happened at the previous expansion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Not everyone owns their home and so on.