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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is great to have everybody here. The committee wants to focus on delivery and the delegations represent key parts in that. Many on the Government side in particular feel that the legislative job has been done in many ways, but there is still a bit of work to do in the context of Housing for All. We want to focus on the agencies that can deliver. On that basis, it is great to have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: To anticipate Mr. Jordan's answer, is there potential for conflict in the CREL scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is still an issue at local authority level. I suppose it is because of a legacy of number of local authorities not being involved with the provision of social housing for some time. We need to gear up in that regard. Some of this is about access to information and knowledge, as well as access to finance. We have also said to other agencies that communication is really key in terms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It relates to increased borrowing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I might come back to that. The Chair might want to draw Mr. Jordan's attention to the report the committee expects to publish on vacancy. It might be useful in his work.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Transport Authority (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is very welcome to hear the news that the National Transport Authority, NTA, is prepared to fund either Fingal County Council of Dublin City Council, subject to the details of an application. Oscar Traynor Road has been in the news for many other reasons, not least because of the new housing project that Dublin City Council will construct on the site for affordable, social and cost-rental...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Transport Authority (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. Having had the pleasure of sitting through the earlier Topical Issue debates, I often think this portion of the week better reflects the work I do in my clinic every week and probably the work every other Deputy in this House does. We are all committed to active travel. The Government has invested more in this area than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the use that the Defence Forces are currently making of the Glen of Imaal. [13295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the discussions that have been had with the Defence Forces with regard to the use of Cathal Brugha barracks for housing. [13296/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to deal with that issue under amendment No. 49 also, as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan has raised it. The point raised by the Minister of State and Deputy Ó Broin is about the balance that needs to be struck here. The difficulty is that we are dealing with such a broad range of suppliers, from very small operators and specialist operators right up to larger providers. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: And for the installation of heat pumps.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I just came from a fantastic International Women's Day event in Finglas this morning. As a member of the gender equality committee to deal with the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly, I want to ask the Government whether it intends to hold a referendum on the issue of a woman's place in society and how we might reflect caring in our Constitution, in addition to addressing many of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The past hour or so has been incredibly useful. Adding all the various policy tools that have been outlined, including the URDF and Town Centre First and so on, I take my perspective from the towns and villages in my community. Many are what might be called urban villages. I am thinking of areas like Finglas and towns like Ballymun. They could be replicated in places like Raheny and new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We can look at the examples of applications for any of the villages. There are great schemes relating to empty buildings in the centre of rural towns that are being used as community hubs or for other purposes. I could talk about empty pubs in Finglas village and derelict sites in Ballymun or Santry. Those urban villages all have the same needs and I would argue that they all have the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the principal vehicle for those urban villages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would like to come back to an area that may have been covered earlier. I apologise if it was because, like Deputy O'Reilly, I was in the Chamber. I refer to compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. Local authorities have spent millions on what could be described as the unsuccessful pursuit of properties. In many cases, it is not as much the availability of resources as the chilling effect a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is the issue of the first phase of the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, and the second phase. The only project to benefit from the URDF in my constituency was €37,000 for a feasibility study on the Dunsink lands. Some of my colleagues asked me if it was €40 million, and I said it was just €37,000. That was a case of the local authority using money to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is welcome but there are three caveats I would put on it. First, it is a very complicated site that has a large population of the Traveller community who would need to be consulted. Second, there have long been promises that the site would be for sports and recreation facilities. Third, Fingal County Council has a long history of building large unsupported residential developments on...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps I was too timid. I had four minutes at the end of Deputy Carroll MacNeill's contribution and I should have spoken up then. I promise that only two and half minutes were unused, so I do not think I will be wasting the House's time. As a member of this committee, I welcome the publication of this report. I commend Senator Flynn on the work she has done. Her election as our Chair...