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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That is okay. I have a large number of suggestions for the IIP but will not be able to go through them all in the time I have left. In regard to the extension of the local development plan from a six-year plan to a ten-year plan, could the IIP comment on that and on how that might provide more certainty? As the IIP has mentioned a need for a stronger review mechanism and a stronger...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That is an important point and is one of the reasons each mandate of a council is a five-year term. I set a development plan in 2009 and 2010 and Dublin city was a very different place in 2020. Unless we made changes in 2016, it would not have been fit for purpose. Given that development plans have an impact even five or six years after they come into existence, that is a crucial point. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank all our witnesses for being here. There is an array of acronyms before us - CIF, IIP and PII. Wind Energy Ireland would be well advised not to shorten its name to an acronym. I acknowledge the submissions are useful at this stage of PLS because the slot for opening statements sometimes does not afford witnesses the time to make their full observations. It is inevitable in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Moran therefore think that requires a further amendment to the Maritime Area Planning Act or an extension within this legislation to those projects he referenced? What is the best mechanism he would recommend to ensure that the same timelines apply for both?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It is important we name those comments. Then people can learn from them and say they might or might not have intended them. It is important to flesh that point out.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course. When I said naming, I meant the examples.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for interrupting but I have three and a half minutes to get to the Chamber. I ask Mr. Daly to continue to give his answer and I will read it in the Official Report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank my colleague, Senator Fitzpatrick, for allowing me to take the first slot. Before I launch into the planning side, I am very conscious that when we are not talking about planning or heritage at this committee, we are dealing with housing legislation. In the past three years, we passed a huge volume of housing legislation that, in the main, falls on local authorities and local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Councillor Shannon will have seen the development of local area plans, LAPs, and all the effort that goes into development plans. Sometimes, very little happens during an LAP. There are some changes to the substructures underneath. Does Councillor Shannon have any comment on that or on the ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It also would not be in line with the decision the Government made to reverse the strategic housing development, SHD, process, which took that power away. Councillor Shannon made a point about the plan being the members' plan. As a local authority member, I was always very conscious that often my only source of information was officials. If the officials did not want to do something, I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I will allow Councillor Killian to come in on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I am conscious the Chair is rigorous about timing. What length would councillors put on a plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for not calling in the witnesses who are not elected members. For the reason Councillor Killian just outlined, I wanted to make sure councillors had their say.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As a non-member, I thank the committee for allowing me and others to speak. I am watching the debate on a motion for a citizens' assembly on drug use taking place in the House, which is something I waited a long time for. I regret missing it, but this conversation is crucial. Deputy Murnane O'Connor is right to say it is an emergency. I noted the reaction and how communities responded...
- Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome this motion. I see that the former Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, has just left. I know the contribution he made to the preparation of this citizens' assembly. It is important to say we would not have reached this point without significant voices in all political parties and many at a community level calling for this citizens' assembly to be established. We know the Misuse...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The Government has very ambitious climate action targets. We also want to support small businesses. This is why we have very generous grants for taxi drivers wishing to switch over to electric vehicles, EVs. Last year, there was no stock but many people who wanted to change over. The scheme closed in December 2022 and has not yet opened for 2023. The Taoiseach has heard me ask about this...
- Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: He is making an accusation. You can talk when your time comes. Is that fair enough? I will not interfere when Deputy McAuliffe is speaking unless he wants to thank me and perhaps I might.
- Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We will not accuse Deputy Collins of corruption.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate Mr. Molloy's empathy, but what we are looking for is his clarity. Empathy is very little help to us in trying to assess whether there is value for money for the taxpayer. That is ultimately what we are doing here. This is not about trying to push anybody to a wall; it is about trying to get to the bottom of this. Who made the decision to provide the funds for the security of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: The guts of €27 million was provided to Quinn Insurance to defend a case. My question is who made the decision to provide the funds.