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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Two commitments in the programme for Government were welcome, those being, addressing the issue of apartment defects and reviewing the Multi-Unit Developments Act, or MUD Act, which governs management companies, sinking funds and management fees. In the coming months, we will see owners’ management companies, OMCs, receiving millions, if not billions, of euro in Government support....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It lies with the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but not the review of the MUD Act. This is not a conversation, though, and I do not want the Ceann Comhairle to have to tell me that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The benefit of being in the committee room is we cannot hear the bells going off that are outside. The housing committee has had a series of votes. I apologise if I cover areas that have been covered, although I heard earlier some of the contributions on yesterday's controversy around placing people in accommodation where documents had been - maybe there is no better word than -...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Exactly, yes. It was reported, obviously. I asked Mr. Gloster to respond to the Ballymun - A Brighter Future report. As Ms Duggan will be aware, it was commissioned by Dublin City Council and it sought to address the issue of the challenge of the lack of social workers within the north city area. One of the recommendations of the report was that a number of senior social workers would...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Maybe, to take some of that discussion offline, Ms Mannion might not be aware that the Taoiseach has appointed Mr. John Costello as the co-ordinator for the implementation board for Ballymun to respond to that report with the expectation that senior decision-makers in each of the organisations would come together to examine the actions needed. I ask Tusla to give a commitment that it will...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. That is fantastic. It is really good news. As I said to the Taoiseach, I could make the same arguments about lots of different areas in my constituency. Local community safety partnerships would be a key way of doing that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I believe Ballymun has been added to that list.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome that with the caveat that there has to be a continued engagement over decades because when area-based partnerships were set up as the local development companies, as they were in the 1990s, it was for this very reason to bring together the ETBs, the HSE and so on. What happened was the rank of official, particularly within the HSE, reduced over time. Fewer people who were able to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The other issue identified in the report, which has an application across all of the areas Tusla works, is the idea that while social workers are key to interventions, their work could also be augmented or supplemented by, for example, youth workers or family support workers.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I understand in the crisis in the recruitment of social workers, youth workers who are not necessarily based with youth services would be a beneficial step. I will give an example. I met the principal of Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun and we were talking about the issue of school avoidance and again they raised the difficulty with me. A child comes into school, there is a crisis for...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a huge array of initiatives. At our recent joint policing committee meeting where we discussed all of this, we were not aware of the vast amount of what Tusla was doing because Tusla is not part of the joint policing committee and, therefore, it was not able to pick up on the hotspots and all of the other stuff, the incidents where our local park might have 30 or 40 kids gathering...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I support the amendment. I would like to provide a practical insight into its benefit. During the Ballymun regeneration process, a large number of areas were not developed for several years because of the desire to have owner-occupied houses on those sites - a very different time from now. Community gardens sprung up on many of those parcels of land. When it came to drafting the local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Deputy Matthews finished?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When Deputy Matthews is finished, Deputy Ó Broin will come in and I want to speak on amendment No. 422 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There are several amendments in the grouping that I have to address. I believe there are four.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can assist with an urgent request in respect of school transport (details supplied). [9428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer annually to provide free travel for people with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer annually to abolish the means test for fish assist and farm assist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9405/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 184. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of the Finglas primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9642/24]