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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: We can look at youth centres and community structures across the country. This is the spending of public money and it is governed by volunteers we are not providing sufficient resources to. These are the charities Ms Delaney and her colleagues regulate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is welcome to see additional money being spent in this area, given the commitment of everybody in the room to the issue. I have a number of questions. The Minister can choose to answer those that he wishes. The first relates to housing projections. The Estimates relate to spending this year. Obviously there is a budget provision for next year. We intend to publish new housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister might touch on an issue, although I do not expect him to have a solution to it. I refer to clarity on funding for local authorities, in particular to assist councillors and local authority members to understand how much money is coming in from central government and how much is disappearing in one fund and reappearing in another. Councillors really struggle to have a line of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am directing my question to the Minister's officials as much as I am to him. From my experience of sitting on a finance group in a local authority, it can be very challenging not to know the details. For example, it can be very difficult to keep track of the cash in Dublin city, because of the very significant proportion of our budget required for emergency accommodation to deal with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Chair allow me one last question? The Minister mentioned the tenant in situ scheme. From my experience in my clinic, it is transformative for people coming to us with an eviction notice who are then able to secure housing. I cannot underscore how important the scheme is. The level of openness and ambition that seems to have been available to the scheme in recent years should not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I suggest to the Minister that the Housing Agency must have as much openness and flexibility as the local authorities, because it is responsible for the cost-rental element of it. It takes that little bit longer with the Housing Agency. I will leave it with the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I start by talking about the progress of Ireland over the past 20 years. There has been a lot of discussion in the House about poverty. However, the SILC report published prior to the budget indicated that those at risk of poverty was 10.6% in 2023. That is a historic low and is down from 20% in 2005. We have halved the number of people at risk of poverty over 20 years. The number of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registrations of L1e-A and L1e-B e-mopeds since the legislation changed in May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41300/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 263. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding work permits for the homecare sector, the number of work permit applications received since the scheme opened in January 2023; the number of work permits issued; the number of applications returned at initial applications pre-check stage; the number of other applications rejected; the number of applications currently in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a new build for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the working family payment renewal of a person (details supplied). [41431/24]

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I will let the next speaker go as I have just come in from the public accounts committee. I will come in after that.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank all the witnesses for being here, especially Mr. Duffin. We have talked about this many times and it is good to see us at a point where an Oireachtas committee is considering a health-led approach. It is my view we should move towards such an approach. As the people who are interested in this committee are all in the same space, sometimes we are preaching to the converted, so I...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I suppose that is part of the challenge in that as we start to think about this issue, people do not want to make things worse. Most people are in that space. As they do not want to make things worse, there is a lot of consensus now building around the health-led approach. As we delve more into it, however, there is the spectre of the industry being there and the intimidation, gangland...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Even if no change is made, a lot of people will ask why not put more people through the drugs court; why is it not operating nationally,; why do we not do more and is that model not used more? Will the witnesses answer some of those questions?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I will ask about mental health because often we find, and it was part of the dual diagnosis report conducted by the Finglas Addiction Support Team, FAST, and DCU, that so much of the two issues are interlinked. From the witnesses' work in the drugs court, and Mr. Duffin's at Ana Liffey, will they paint a picture of how much of a role mental health plays in the area of addiction?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that about trying to find places for treatment?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: And Mr. Duffin?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40566/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the gross human rights abuses carried out by the Taliban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/24]