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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. McCarthy have an idea of that number?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In seeking accommodation, the Department needs to do a number of jobs. It needs to find a physical location and make a contractual financial arrangement. Another part of that is working with communities. As the Department has been forced to act so quickly, given the numbers, it is the one area where I know departmental officials feel they would like to do more. We need to have more staff...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: When a centre is opened and local representatives and local community leaders are not made aware of it, all it does is create a breeding ground for misinformation. It is important to bring people like that in and particularly community leaders who in many cases would be the first people organising coffee mornings, fundraising and all the things we saw at the very beginning of the war in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Dillon asked about the breakdown in the lease payments to private landlords for fit-out and other associated costs. In many cases, some of the locations the Department has been forced to acquire are more akin to a warehouse environment than any kind of accommodation we would be aware of. What criteria does the Department use when looking at accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask Mr. McCarthy to reflect on that. Are there any centres operating at the moment without fire safety certificates?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, there is a difference between a fire safety certificate for use as a commercial building and a fire safety certificate for use as a residential building.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Mr. McCarthy saying at this point either everywhere has a fire safety certificate or the Department is in the process of-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, those arrangements are being made with individual property owners. This is not a hands-off relationship. The Department is providing the service on site. If something is not right, I would expect the Department, IPAS and so to be the ones driving the solution.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In the absence of a fire safety certificate for residential use, fire marshals would be-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will come back in the second round on those other points. I want to touch on the area of birth information and tracing. Many people in this House accused Government Deputies of sealing the records of mother and baby homes. However, this year thousands of people will be applying for birth information. It is a really important step for those people that they can have access to that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think I am out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank both local authorities for being with us today. We want to try to capture how Housing for All is being implemented and what some of the roadblocks might be at a practical level that we can feed back to the Department. I am conscious that much of the legislation is very new. The Affordable Housing Act, for example, is just over 12 months old so I accept some of this is planning for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Ms Farrelly pre-empted my next question. Has the council outlined that yet because there was funding from the European Regional Development Fund for potential housing on the Dunsink lands. Has the council any idea of what quantity could be delivered there and at what point is the council at in terms of that project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: A similar expansion on the Dublin city map was the Meakstown area. As Ms Farrelly knows, it took quite a while for Fingal County Council to catch up with delivering some of the community services needed in that area. It was a largely private development but Fingal County Council is only now trying to retrofit some of those community facilities. I would hope that with the Dunsink...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. McLoughlin have any comments on capacity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. McLoughlin is right to broaden it out beyond land alone. That raises the question of resources, both budgetary, available through the Housing for All multi-annual budget, and staffing. Do the witnesses think both local authorities have the numbers of people and finances needed, using Ms Farrelly's phrase, " to exceed those targets"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I might come back on the affordability issue as there a lot of questions on that area. What is the opinion on the broader issue of staffing and resources?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline his short- and medium-term plans for emergency electricity generation at Huntstown, Finglas; and if a district heating system may form part of future developments. [55200/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I recently attended the EirGrid road show in Erin's Isle GAA club. It is a fairly big hall but it was fairly packed with people who I think had a renewed curiosity in the security of electricity supply and where our supply comes from and how it is used. There was considerable discussion around Huntstown, which is located just north of Finglas, with regard to future plans there and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (8 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I welcome the clarification about the temporary emergency power generation at that location. That will bring the total power generation on the site up to almost 800 MW. I was surprised to hear that 20% of the total generation on the island is generated at the Huntstown plant. There is also a bioenergy anaerobic digestion power station separate to the...