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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Are the resources in place to help the Department achieve it? Obviously, we understand that external factors can change. However, is everything in place that allows the Department to reach that with all the internal controls it has?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That has been the challenge with direct provision since its inception. We need to get to a position where we stop using it as a tool. Of course, it will be there as a short-term measure, but for long-term stays, direct provision is unacceptable and the Government and specifically the Department need to stop using it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would certainly appreciate all the work that Mr. McCarthy and his officials can do to achieve that. I turn to the ECCE scheme. In some ways it could be extended to family support centres. When the wage subsidy scheme was in operation the level of funding that was going into the childcare sector was incredibly significant. We have a large number of very small operators, many of them...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The difficulty is that many providers of ECCE have had to take out loans in their own name to provide the building, yet in the breakdown of costs they receive per child, per use and so on - it is highly regulated, almost by the hour - that capital responsibility does not appear to be reflected in the fee being paid to the provider.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am glad Mr. McCarthy mentioned that funding because I hope we will start to see in the autumn the delivery of service connected with that. It is a very significant increase in funding and I have to accept that the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is doing a fantastic job in allocating that and driving that agenda. It shows, however, that the only logical way forward is for us to move towards a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanism by which his Department will review progress made in implementing the programme for Government. [26195/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the leaders of the parties in Northern Ireland following the Stormont elections. [26194/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 66 and 67 in some ways have been subvented the Government's amendments. Amendment No. 66 is perhaps a simplified way of trying to address the issue of cryptocurrencies. It is very difficult to define a cryptocurrency. The easiest way I could find to do it was to limit it to the two currencies that are operational on the island of Ireland. That being said, I think the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 74: In page 98, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “119. Online political advertising will be prohibited.”. I promised yesterday during my contribution on amendment No. 32 that I would not repeat it at the same length today. I do not want to fall out with the Minister of State on this issue. Despite all the negotiations I have had with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear what the Minister of State is saying and what many members have said. In some ways, this blunt instrument is pulling the emergency brake, protecting our system and forcing the hand of the Government and Commission to implement regulations that would be more nuanced. This is once-in-a-generation legislation. One might be sceptical that the necessary protections will be implemented in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 84: In page 129, after line 9, to insert the following: “Regulations 146.(1) The Minister may make regulations for the general purpose of this Act and may, by regulation, provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed. (2) Every regulation under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason amendment No. 85 was ruled out of order?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept the ruling of the Chair and the Bills Office on the matter, but I believe a comparison can be made between advertising online and advertising on a lamp post. They are not that dissimilar. There is cross-party agreement on this. The Minister of State would be one of the people principally in favour of limiting the number of election posters and devolving powers to local authorities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We do not want that. That would be too blunt of an instrument. I was accused of proposing too blunt of an instrument earlier.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the amendments and think they are important for all the reasons Deputy Nash outlined. I had expected we could, perhaps, go further on some of them, which might have helped Deputy Ó Broin in understanding the specific application of the provision. I would like to see more detail and adjustment on Report Stage. Deputy Ó Broin makes a very valid point regarding the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I seek clarification about subsidiary organisations. If, for example, there was an organisation like the Friends of the Green Party in the United States and it were to provide a benefit rather than a cash donation, let us say an office or truck or whatever during an election, that is equivalent to a donation. If the Friends of the Green Party was to fly the Minister, Deputy Ryan, over to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State for allocating to me the remaining part of his time. It is unfortunate that in a debate that will last an hour, there are 50 minutes for opposition statements and seven and a half minutes for the 82 Members on the Government side. If we are talking about electoral reform, perhaps the Business Committee might start with those disproportionate arrangements. ...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 277. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport of a child (details supplied) will issue given that it has been estimated for issue since 21 April 2022 and the family are travelling in the coming days. [27226/22]