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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: This may stray into housing policy and Mr. Moloney may not wish to comment, but has the Department examined the use of the HAP scheme? An issue that has come up many times at the committee is that the people who are procuring one of the largest amounts of spending, namely, HAP, are some of the most vulnerable people in Ireland. They are the procurement manager for their own rents, yet the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Moloney.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree with Deputy Colm Burke on workforce planning. Under the Department's approach to section 56 and section 39 organisations, the national pay agreement does not automatically apply to staff in that sector. In the longer term, this poses challenges to recruitment and retention in those areas. Deputy Burke made a valid point that, beyond apprenticeships and such, it is about the broader...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the probation services the resources they need to expand the strive programme in the Ballymun sub-district as recommended in the "Ballymun a Brighter Future Report"; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she intends to respond to the recommendations in the "Ballymun a Brighter Future Report" commissioned by Dublin City Council and presented to the Taoiseach at the Dublin North West area Joint Policing Committee in July 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52122/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the yearly spend on sepsis awareness in the past five years; his plans to raise awareness of sepsis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52371/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have four minutes; is that correct?

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I may take advantage of the time. I listened to much of the debate and I think it is important for us to remember what happened on budget day. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, put forward an €11 billion package to try to alleviate what we know to be an incredibly difficult period for people in...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay, excellent. I could go on but we will discuss it on Committee Stage. I want to talk about housing. I wish many of the Deputies who talk about housing actually attended the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage because when they say there is nothing in this budget for housing, they are ignoring a €4 billion and a €20 billion package. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the salaries for community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53371/22]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.I appreciate your discretion with the time. I suppose the-----

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Of course. The only elevation, Deputy McNamara, is the success of this policy. When I advocated it in this House a number of weeks ago, I said I thought we had reached the point where it would be possible to do it. It is important for us to say there are legal constraints on this. The points made by Deputies McNamara and Boyd Barrett outline the extent of the parameter. Ultimately, we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department in the Ballymun A Brighter Future Report commissioned by Dublin City Council and presented to An Taoiseach at the Dublin north-west area joint policing committee in July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 169. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department and the HSE in the Ballymun A Brighter Future Report commissioned by Dublin City Council and presented to An Taoiseach at the Dublin north west area joint policing committee in July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53630/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank our witnesses. Deputy Gould is not normally half as positive when they are not here. They have brought a degree of cheer to this place. May I pursue Deputy Gould's final comment? He said the council would be able to do a lot more if the Government gave it more. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The Department is not doing anything to restrict the council on delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is there more the council needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In advance of today's meeting I spoke to my Fianna Fáil colleagues on both local authorities represented today. From Cork's perspective, there was particular praise, particularly from Councillor Tony Fitzgerald, who talked about the regeneration in the north-west area, in Knocknaheeny and so on. There is a question as to whether the council is doing enough to deliver on affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Absolutely. It was a pity more local authorities did not look at the timeline for that legislation and do exactly what Cork City Council did. I appreciate Ms Doherty's response. From Galway's perspective, I will raise with the witnesses a number of site-specific matters before then coming back to more general points. As for the affordable housing on the Merlin Woods site, Galway City...