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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister of State's officials because a huge amount of work has gone into the legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is the Deputy referring to co-option?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: With the Bill before us then the question is whether the party or the councillor nominates the replacement person for the duration of the maternity leave.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We look forward to having the Minister of State back to continue that journey.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022 and has made no amendments thereto.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank out witnesses for being here today. The first question I want to ask Mr. McCarthy draws from my experience both on the Committee of Public Accounts and this committee regarding the whole area of local government auditing. There have been several media reports around different accounts of spending in different local authorities. I know from our discussions at the Committee of Public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I take Mr. McCarthy's point about it being well audited. The second part of an auditing process is holding the auditor's report to some form of democratic accountability. That is the area in which the current system struggles a little bit. RTÉ covered very widely the local government auditor's reports recently in a programme. It created much public concern around some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear what Mr. McCarthy is saying that ultimately the decision to work in this area lies with the Minister and the Department. I will not press him on that. One point I will make to him, though, is that often when there is media coverage of an event, there can be complexities to it that are not often covered in the media. As Mr. McCarthy said, for several of the incidents that were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Is the data NOAC is working on provided by the Departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any scrutiny of the back and forth between the Departments and the local authorities? I know from being a local authority member that sometimes the local authority will say it is with the Department and the Department will say it is with the local authority. There can be time delays and cost increases as a result of that interaction. It may be no one's fault but it is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: As an Oireachtas committee, we constantly try to engage with members through the local authority members associations, AILG and LAMA, and with the CCMA. It is obvious that the resources available to the CCMA are far greater than those available to the secretariats of the representative bodies of councillors. As Mr. McCarthy said, we are increasingly dealing with those bodies to input into...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I might stay with Mr. Baneham regarding the questions Deputy Burke asked concerning the acquisition fund. On the issues relating to local authority vetting or auditing, I was a member of a local authority when that took place. I recall some of the reasons properties were refused. Those included not being wheelchair accessible or not being on the ground floor. I remember Fingal County...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: In 2017, when there was very clear housing need across the whole spectrum, local authorities were refusing units. I can understand the reasons they might but, as somebody who has people coming to his clinic every single day, they just seem like a luxury. That is a polite term. This seems like such a missed opportunity in that units that were available would have been availed of. I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: For ten years they were okay with saying they got things wrong.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Does that continue to be the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Jordan might say that to the leaders of Opposition parties who are opposing one-bedroom housing and saying we need two- and three-bedroom housing when 70% or 80% of the housing waiting lists are one- and two-bedroom-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is not a matter for Mr. Jordan but I take his point. If I may come back to the remaining target, how does the Housing Agency hope to achieve the remaining target and the remaining balance of the funding available to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I do want to move on to the approved housing bodies but, staying with Mr. Jordan, yesterday there was a very significant announcement relating to apartment defects. There is a proposed role for the agency in respect of the administration of the funding. The Construction Defects Alliance, which has done a huge amount of work on that, has very reasonably pointed out that many of the people...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Will that have a resourcing demand as well, from the agency's perspective?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move on to the AHB sector. I am Vice Chair of the Oireachtas housing committee and we have a line of accountability over what is happening in that area. We are just completing a round of delivery of Housing for All with AHBs and the local authorities and it has been very interesting to see how different local authorities and AHBs have been availing of the new tools that are available...