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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, my understanding is, at that point, an income support can be used for those who have retired.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being with, particularly so soon after the Government announcement on this issue. As the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on local government, I have received numerous queries, as, I am sure, have other members, from councillors throughout the country with regard to how this will be implemented. I am conscious that some of my questions may be relevant to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Would Ms Walshe accept that, for an onlooker, it seems impossible that it can be done in an Exchequer-neutral manner? We are saying to local authorities that they can retain 100% of what is collected. As a result of the latter, other local authorities will not be able to benefit from redistribution and will require additional funding for the promise to be true. Is Ms Walshe suggesting that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Surely if there is extra spending, it will go back to the Department of Finance for any increase in the budget. In making the decision to retain 100%, which is welcome, surely there was some modelling on the financial impact that it would have on the overall budget of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and on the Exchequer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I return to the three issues I mentioned earlier, namely, valuation, notification and budgetary impacts. On the issue of valuation, which may be more for Dr. Walsh, what he seems to have said in the course of the meeting is that Revenue will again recommend the fee. I do not know how it is calculated but, if I remember correctly, it was sort of an average within the electoral district. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask Dr. Walsh to clarify the date in August by which councils must notify Revenue of the variation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Will this mean that local authorities will have to hold their property tax meetings in August?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask Dr. Walsh to follow up with me on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I confirm I am in the precincts of Leinster House. I thank the witnesses for attending today. To follow on from Deputy Verona Murphy's point on Waterford, it is very clear there are now three institutions with long-term deficits. How does the HEA intend to address that, particularly in relation to the intention to establish a long-term funding model for higher education? Are there...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: There is not a commonality across three institutions or anything regarding strictly numbers of students.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: There are specific reasons for each them.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I take that on board. My next question relates to the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the non-compliance, procurement and governance of it. Has the new Department put in place any new oversight measures for the HEA in regard to procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: My final question relates less to finances and more to governance, although it has an impact on finances. The new technological universities have a reduced level of representation compared with that of the traditional ETB sector. What is the rationale for that? There has been some disquiet within the ETB sector that its traditionally strong representation on some of those governance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional education facilities at both primary and post primary level in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35329/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills status of the new permanent build for a college (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for the school meals programme over the summer and the extension of the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the pay policy for protected employment in the Office of Public Works increases in line with other public sector pay increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35603/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank everyone for being with us here today. It is important to hear their views. I was absent for some of the previous committee meetings because we have been passing the Land Development Agency, LDA, Bill. There were votes at Report and Final Stages on that, which were completed last night. My question focuses on that because the Bill and the unlocking of the public land bank for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry to cut off Mr. O'Connor. I am conscious of the time. The proposals that came forward last night were really significant because in Dublin and Cork they allow for 100% affordable and social housing on public land. That means that all the traditional biases, which are unjustified, surrounding the provision of Traveller accommodation within an overall development, how it might...