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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What about the extension of parental leave?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: At the weekend, Jim Gavin, the chairman of the Dublin Citizens' Assembly, indicated that he might have his report ready earlier than expected. It appears he is as good in the chair as he is on the field, although I am not sure anybody would be up for five citizens' assemblies in a row. Does the early delivery of that report give us the opportunity to establish a citizens' assembly on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (5 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide additional after-school child places in the Dublin 11 area, particularly in Finglas and Glasnevin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49094/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The Opposition Members who have spoken so far have called for considered debate and claimed nothing has changed in the past year. Those accusations were made by people who are no longer in the Chamber. These are not tropes that should be thrown back and forth but it seems to be what is happening. This issue is too serious for that and we need to consider it more holistically. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 616. To ask the Minister for Health when the 1% increase due since October 2021 to retired HSE employees under the sustaining progress agreement will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48093/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We are dealing with issues surrounding water quality and supply. From the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, we are joined by Dr. Tom Ryan, Mr. Noel Byrne, Ms Mary Gurrie and Dr. Michelle Minihan. From the HSE, we are joined by Ms Ann Marie Part, Dr. Deirdre Mulholland and Ms Deirdre Lavin. The opening statements have been circulated to members. I will begin with a note on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Ms Part and Dr. Ryan. We move on to members' questions. Members are expected to confine their questions to the witnesses to seven minutes in total. The member may make a statement or ask a question and allow the remaining time for responses by the witnesses. The member can decide who to direct questions to. The first speaker is Deputy Flaherty from Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Gould will ably represent you. I call Senator Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There are just two minutes left in the Deputy's slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have one block of seven minutes for myself so I can give the Deputy one minute if he wants it. We have Irish Water at 4.30 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will come in with the last eight minutes for myself. I want to turn to the issue of bathing water quality. We have not covered it in depth. In 2019 there was a series of meetings between Dublin city councillors, the HSE, Irish Water and the EPA, regarding some concerns around bathing water quality. It was very unfortunate that on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Liffey...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can Ms Gurrie clarify who issues the restrictions on bathing between the EPA and the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That relies on the testing regime of the local authority which then informs the HSE if an excess level is found. Is it the HSE's decision as to whether there should be a prohibition on bathing or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Open water swimming is a particularly active group; the Liffey swim being the culmination of that sector. Is Dr. Mulholland aware of any liaison with those organisations at local authority level to ensure any concerns are well-addressed? The organisation of this event is really complex yet in the case of 2019, the local authority only informed the HSE the night before the event. This puts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can I turn to similar incidents in that year which resulted in disruption to water supply because of a human error in the Fingal area. My memory of it was that an alarm sounded but there was not the appropriate human intervention at that time. That comes down to the training and the capacity of local authority staff or what would be Irish Water staff. Has the HSE engaged with Irish Water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps the largest number Dublin has seen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is automation one option to prevent human error?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am conscious of time and having to speak to everybody else. I visited Ballymore Eustace, for example, and am very conscious of the strategic importance - in terms of national security - of such a facility. While there is fantastic work being done there by the staff, it has to be said that it is a very low-security environment. From a risk management perspective, has there been any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would say even an amateur version of Google Maps would assist people in discovering some of those locations. Perhaps this is not a question for now, and maybe the witnesses did not prepare for it, but if they had any information on this that they could share with the committee, I think it would be useful. We talk about water quality but, in respect of national security, one could take out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Particularly in light of the cybersecurity attack from which the HSE is probably still recovering, it is not as remote a prospect as we thought it might have been.