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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 814. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied) which was due on 20 May 2022. [30383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the refusal of disability allowance of a person (details supplied); if the inability to take up work was appropriately decided given the age of the applicant; and the areas of work available to them.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications in respect of children (details supplied) will be expedited given that the children are travelling to a family wedding on 12 June 2022 with their parents. [31027/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the reduction of July provision hours allocated to children (details supplied) who have complex needs; and the reason hours are reduced due to the children attending the same school. [31150/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of the Government’s proposed amendments to the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1995 and the impact that it may have on business insurance premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public expenditure was within profile during the first five months of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he proposes to reinforce the 5% spending rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29748/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 66 and 67 in some ways have been subvented the Government's amendments. Amendment No. 66 is perhaps a simplified way of trying to address the issue of cryptocurrencies. It is very difficult to define a cryptocurrency. The easiest way I could find to do it was to limit it to the two currencies that are operational on the island of Ireland. That being said, I think the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 74: In page 98, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “119. Online political advertising will be prohibited.”. I promised yesterday during my contribution on amendment No. 32 that I would not repeat it at the same length today. I do not want to fall out with the Minister of State on this issue. Despite all the negotiations I have had with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear what the Minister of State is saying and what many members have said. In some ways, this blunt instrument is pulling the emergency brake, protecting our system and forcing the hand of the Government and Commission to implement regulations that would be more nuanced. This is once-in-a-generation legislation. One might be sceptical that the necessary protections will be implemented in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 84: In page 129, after line 9, to insert the following: “Regulations 146.(1) The Minister may make regulations for the general purpose of this Act and may, by regulation, provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed. (2) Every regulation under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason amendment No. 85 was ruled out of order?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept the ruling of the Chair and the Bills Office on the matter, but I believe a comparison can be made between advertising online and advertising on a lamp post. They are not that dissimilar. There is cross-party agreement on this. The Minister of State would be one of the people principally in favour of limiting the number of election posters and devolving powers to local authorities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We do not want that. That would be too blunt of an instrument. I was accused of proposing too blunt of an instrument earlier.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the amendments and think they are important for all the reasons Deputy Nash outlined. I had expected we could, perhaps, go further on some of them, which might have helped Deputy Ó Broin in understanding the specific application of the provision. I would like to see more detail and adjustment on Report Stage. Deputy Ó Broin makes a very valid point regarding the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I seek clarification about subsidiary organisations. If, for example, there was an organisation like the Friends of the Green Party in the United States and it were to provide a benefit rather than a cash donation, let us say an office or truck or whatever during an election, that is equivalent to a donation. If the Friends of the Green Party was to fly the Minister, Deputy Ryan, over to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (21 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is here as a representative of Government and I would appreciate if she could bring back to the Minister for Transport something critical in Dublin city for two groups of people. They include those who seek a taxi, often at weekends late at night, many of them young people who have not had a chance to go out for the past few years and who...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (21 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It was her knowledge of the geography of Dublin I was referring to.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (21 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister of State outlining some of the changes but my experience of representing many taxi drivers during the pandemic was that we treated them totally differently from other businesses. They had to use savings or their €350 pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, to cover business costs. In every other industry, with very generous and important supports such as wage...