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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding stream for the targeted youth employability support initiative in Ballyfermot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 804. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding stream for a new community centre (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4307/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering increasing the duration of the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector, which is due to increase to 13.5% in February 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4840/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Professor Crowe. Some of the areas in the Bill are technical. I am interested in the idea of public consultation, which was previously referred to. Sometimes consultation can have a really positive impact on a process. Sometimes it can distract from what the process is really about. In the context of best practice internationally, is Professor Crowe aware of types of consultation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: What we do not want is the box being ticked by just having the advertisement in the paper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: By the same token, it is an incredibly technical and complicated issue. It can be hard sometimes to engage members of the public who are busy with their normal lives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is also part of a broader education process about our biodiversity and climate resources. The Minister will have the opportunity to have expert advice. It could be interesting to see how the expertise that is available to the Minister might also be available in the consultation phase-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: -----or might be connected because, first of all, we get a continuance of policy information. It would also be a better use of a resource that will already be there. Professor Crowe may have been asked this question already, but in terms of the process of the availability of these experts, we find it increasingly difficult to get people to serve in these types of public roles or that by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It may also preclude people from being engaged in certain commercial practises or other resources because there might be conflicts of interest and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. That was with regard to heads 9 and 10 with regard to the consultation and head 5 in respect of the expert group. The other area in which I had an interest was head 12 and the idea of a temporary marine protected area, MPA, as a result of an emergency. The example given in the briefing was the idea of a significant oil leak or something along those lines. I wonder whether two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The question is, though, whether two years is ever going to be sufficient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The last point is bigger; I do not expect Professor Crowe to have an answer. We are starting now to harness the resources that are available to us in terms of wind energy and offshore wind energy. Inevitable, when human activity is brought into a natural environment, it causes disruption. We will never mitigate that completely. Yet, there are hugely positive benefits of offshore wind and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: One of the things we will probably see is that people who were previously on the same side on these issues may actually have very different views on them. That is something we have to reflect both in the consultation and expert panel and in the broader debate on the subject. I thank Professor Crowe for being with us today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I was thinking about that too.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Like Deputy Verona Murphy, I await the documents that are being prepared for the Dáil next week. It is a serious matter and I would certainly want to have the full range of documents in front of me before I comment on it. However, there is one area in the reporting that I think is appropriate for this forum. That is the suggestion, and I want to be careful in how I phrase this - I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is important to know. I do not know the source of either the quote or the documents. Perhaps they are exaggerating what was possible in the conversations with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Was there a special arrangement for this particular one or was this something which was normal practice across other Departments and other notes?