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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: If Miriam Lord is to be believed, the Minister was once involved in a bribery allegation involving His Holiness the Pope, a family member and a puppy.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: I raise with him the issue of animal welfare. Yesterday, the DSPCA said we need to do far more on the issue of exporting puppies bred on puppy farms. Representatives of the North Dublin Cat Rescue have told me that we need to do far more to support voluntary organisations spaying feral cats. Will the Minister raise these matters with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, as I also...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Spratt and all those attending today. I will start with the easy questions, including with regard to the metro. I am sure the witnesses are very familiar with the greater Dublin transport strategy in draft format that was presented this week. I have read it and been briefed on it by the National Transport Authority and I know the headlines that indicate the metro has been...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: My question was whether the business case that Mr. Spratt will put to the Government will be included in a timeline. This is because the NTA appears to have no timeline applied to the project. I do not know if that is because it is afraid to be bound by timelines that it project, or if there are no timelines at all. However, from transparency and public spending perspectives, surely...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: The difficulty with that is that the NTA has consistently missed timelines in advance of the first gate. In 2018, there was the emerging preferred route. It was indicated in 2018 that the railway procurement order would be applied for in 2019. That did not happen. The question that many people are asking is why the NTA missed that key date of applying for the railway procurement order in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: Before we move on. Mr. Spratt says that the date he has now is the best. Honestly, after the NTA briefing, many public representatives are scratching their heads wondering if there are any dates. We have not been given any dates. The only date that has been given is that the project will go to a railway order in the early quarter of 2022. That is welcome. Other than that, we have no...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: Was the 2018 delivery schedule inaccurate. The schedule that I just read out that was in the NTA announcement in 2018 was part of the national development plan. Was that inaccurate? Was it underfunded? Why have those dates been missed? This goes to the heart of confidence in this project. If we are missing deadlines now, when we have not even passed gate 1, there are real concerns. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I want to thank-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that Chair, but it is clear that answers also need to come from the NTA. I would ask that we revisit our request that the NTA come before the Committee of Public Accounts, because the Department of Transport is obviously operating this from a procurement side. We need the operational issues from the NTA and TII before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Chair’s discretion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I will return to the issue of night-vision technology in a moment. In correspondence Mr. Spratt has outlined that regarding driving tests and the last appearance before this committee in May, there is a proposed new driving test centre for the Finglas area. Could he outline that good news to me in very short period of time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I would very much appreciate it being sent over in writing. I will return to the issue of the night vision technology. Nobody reading chapter 5 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report will be able to put the crew of R116 out of their mind. When you read the timeline, there was a report in March 2010 outlining the Coast Guard SAR service should have night vision technology. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: I accept there was a wide and detailed report and Mr. Spratt is correct that it does not specifically make a recommendation in that regard. When we reflect on the 2010 report that recommended night vision technology should be part of it, how do we ensure in future that technology is available to the people who are operating it? From the other perspective, and I appreciate we are under time...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Paul McAuliffe: -----from the procurement perspective, how do we ensure it is part of the tender rather than the State paying for what is an additional service to the existing tender. I have run out of time but I appreciate the sensitivities of it. In no way was I attempting to assign blame to the Department.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (11 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new proposals in Housing for All which relate to the power of local authorities to address abandoned buildings in urban villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55078/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that plan to implement the proposals outlined in Housing for All which relate to affordable purchase homes and affordable rental homes; if they have communicated with his Department on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55077/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing units that have been built in Santry, Dublin 9 in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55066/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the provision of both primary and post-primary education in Santry, Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55067/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (10 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: 252. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the provision of primary health care in Santry, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55068/21]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 264: In page 186, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(c) in the case of any other foreshore authorisation under section 3, the coming into operation of Part 5 of the Act of 2021;”. I ask the Minister of State to respond.