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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What about the recordings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any follow up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, that is a HR issue and is probably not appropriate for here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Watt provide the committee with reassurances in that area? Any briefings we could consider in private session would be useful because we have considered it in private session.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What is worrying, however, for many of the people who come to me seeking mental health services is that money could be allocated and they would not see the service outcome. Is there a perceived acceptable level of time or lag before that sort of money can be delivered into service delivery? There is a real frustration, especially in mental health services. Perhaps I might be better...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The real frustration is particularly around weekend and out-of-hours access to mental health services. Perhaps I am wrong about some parts of the country, but I still find it alarming that on-call consultants are available in adult out-of-hours mental health services, but the same on-call consultants are not available for child mental health. They are both paid the same amount of money. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Does the HSE want to progress to a situation in which consultants dealing with children are on call?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It has been good to see Ms O'Connor acknowledge that. It is incredibly serious for the families affected. I was very pleased to be the third speaker this morning because it was after 10 a.m. I understand the HSE capital plan was published this morning at 10 a.m., which means the witnesses can answer my questions on it now. I was very pleased to see a couple of projects in particular. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Mr. Reid confirming that the funding will be in place to construct the primary care centre in Finglas?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think it is number two on the priority list. I will address one other point regarding the capital plan. There is funding for the Beaumont convent site. I was surprised to see that the site had been purchased because it had been zoned for housing by Dublin City Council. There is an issue with paying money for land that is not zoned for the possible intended purpose. Mr. Reid may think...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps Mr. Reid can address it in my second round.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In referring to recordings made of members of the Department of Health, I referred to the recording as being illegal. It was wrong of me to do that. I have no evidence to that effect. As a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, I want to correct the record and state that I did not intend to refer to them as illegal.

Urban Regeneration Report: Motion (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I like Deputy Bacik's phrase that this goes beyond housing, because too much of the debate on vacancy and dereliction focuses on our immediate need in terms of supply. I heard Deputy Gould suggest that we could tackle the entire housing crisis if we tackled dereliction alone. Of course we know that is not true. We need significant numbers of new builds and we need new supply. That is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for not hearing all the opening statements and if I cover something we have already covered. Ensuring affordable supply is one of the key goals of the Government. Many of the provisions in Housing for All are tools to deliver affordability. In many cases, we are using State lands. We are using a State agency to master-plan or design. When projects go to tender, we use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously the cost of construction is an issue but the procurement processes can often lead to higher tender outcomes as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would be grateful for an industry perspective on the cost of tendering, the cost of construction and the other points I raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Benson is speaking about supply in general terms but I am focused on public housing supply, where developers are tendering for the construction of public housing. From my perspective, that is where the high unit costs are coming back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I take Mr. Benson's point. I ask the industry representatives to address the point made by Ms Geraghty regarding the affordability of apartments. There is a real challenge there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise, as I was at the Committee of Public Accounts. I fell out with the Chair because I told him I had to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I often think that going from that meeting to this meeting is like going between two different worlds. We always talk about much more positive things in this room. There are two things that I wanted to touch on. There is much in the recommendations about childcare and caring that speaks to a better society as opposed to just achieving gender equality. In this committee, we have to think...