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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the witnesses. I am also a member of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, so I have an appreciation of the full range and depth of the Department. The short title, Department of housing, does not do service to any of the other sectors and the significant funding in those areas. As my questions are on various topics, Mr. Graham can feel free to divert me...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been an increase in staffing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I understand that a new affordable housing unit has been established within the Department. Will Mr. Graham comment on the work it is doing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My fear is that the work will be done in here, the legislation will be passed and with the Department but the toolbox that which will be available to local authorities in particular but also the AHBs and so on, will not be widely understood or known. There are many vacant and derelict sites in my constituency. The Drake Inn site has been lying vacant for 15 years. Any one of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to deal with gangland crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8713/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will not require seven minutes. I apologise that I was delayed at a meeting of the Committee on Public Accounts next door. I have not quite mastered the ability to be omnipresent in both meetings. Zoom gave me the option to do that for a while, but it is not possible physically. I thank the witnesses for the detail in the submissions that have been made. It really assists the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The real work often happens in the private sessions of the committee when we are haggling back and forth over the wording of the pre-legislative scrutiny reports. I promise Ms Teehan all of what she has submitted will form part of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have one further question. There was some concern about combining heritage and planning in one Department and conflicts arising from that. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan ,has done fantastic work in that area. We are a year and a half into that process. Have the witnesses any observations on combining the planning and the heritage responsibilities in the Department? These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Open-ended questions are always bad, are they not?

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: First, I want to welcome the publication of the commission’s report. Fianna Fáil welcomes this report. We called for it to be established by a motion before the Dáil in 2019, when we were in opposition. It was a key component of our input into the programme for Government, which was agreed by all three parties. It has the commitment of the Minister and of all of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 213. To ask the Minister for Health when the general practitioner visit card will be extended to children under eight years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (15 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Finglas primary health care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7928/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his efforts to reduce the waiting list for early intervention in speech and language therapy in north western areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to amend the better energy warmer homes grants scheme to allow second-time applicants to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of successful better energy warmer home applicants by local authority in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received the Company Law Reform Group report on the splitting of assets. [6806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the Dublin Regional Enterprise Plan. [6805/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: With Deputy Ó Broin's permission, as I cannot access my folder due to Wi-Fi issues, I ask that he goes first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I might want to ask about town centres and how it will help with rural villages. On the regulations, I hear what the Minister is saying about the removal of the 250 sq. m restriction. My fear was that by having the limit and the number of units, we might end up going for smaller units of lower quality while those making the conversion might want to have larger units. There is a benefit in...