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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. My first question was whether those papers could be made available to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
University of Limerick Financial Report 2020 (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It would have been a publicly circulated document within the-----

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current strength of the Reserve Defence Force in each of the services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23507/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [23969/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the visa application by persons (details supplied) will be expedited. [24000/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the differentiation in the local authority's involvement. There is still too much specification about what needs to happen for someone to apply for this. For example, there is a big space in Ballymun with the plaza and the Axis theatre. I have no doubt they could put out tables and chairs on the plaza and it would make things safer and there would be passive policing. These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I know the Minister has inherited the legislation but I am saying there is an opportunity to do something we have not done before or in a long time. We could devolve more power to the local authorities and it is one thing we could do. I know it has been done in housing, for example, and we should do it more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I must go next door for 1.30 p.m. so I apologise for not being able to stay for the rest of the meeting. Changes were made as a result of Covid-19 and they arose because of an unexpected situation. They have given us the opportunity to re-examine this area of public policy, particularly for councillors around the country who deal with the question of street furniture in general. In Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [23530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [23846/22]

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sharing time with Deputy Alan Farrell. I am very pleased to be here to mark 50 years of Ireland's membership of the European Union. It will be for others today to balance whether that was a broadly positive or negative move in their view. In my view it has been overwhelmingly positive. It unlocked the potential of a State that was emerging from oppression under an empire and happened...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of infection that can impact anybody. In fact, nearly seven people a day die with sepsis. The Taoiseach will know of the death in my constituency of 15-year-old Seán Hughes from sepsis. His parents have done tremendous work in raising awareness of sepsis and got a commitment from the Minister for Health in the previous Government...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the support Ireland is giving to Moldova to help it deal with the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with political leaders in Northern Ireland in the wake of the assembly elections there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 394. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited for a person (details supplied) who is due to travel on 5 May 2022. [22723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an update will be provided on a passport application by a person (details supplied) as the estimated due date was 08 February 2022 and the applicant is due to travel on 21 May 2022. [22855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 405. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport applications by persons (details supplied) will be expedited. [22939/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed. [23310/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for missing some of the opening statements as I was in the Chamber for Questions to the Taoiseach and hope that I do not repeat any points that have been made. One of the main reasons I had hoped we could have this session and a subsequent is because I served as a councillor for ten years on Dublin City Council and saw a local authority provide a fantastic service for older...