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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We would not want to see it get in the way of attracting investment to an area that needed regeneration, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Zoning is a blunt instrument. It often encompasses a wide area. Whether a council decides to zone or not to zone is one of the difficulties. If the potential benefit is never realised, the whole process is a waste of the council's time if it does not actually result in any development in the long run.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I suppose there are sites that are entirely in local authority ownership. I am thinking of site 31 which sits north of Ballymun. It is identified in part for Ballymun Kickhams GAA Club, and part for the National Transport Authority, NTA. It is owned by Dublin City Council but it is in Fingal County Council. As a result, a lot of interaction is required there between different councils for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I use that as an example because it is one that I am familiar with. Two local authorities have an involvement. One as the landowner and the other as the planning regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That brings our session to a close. I thank our witnesses for being with us today.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the opportunity to raise again the issue of Gealscoil Uí Earcáin, Fionnghlas. I have had the pleasure in this House of speaking about the fantastic work done by the principal, parents and teachers of the school and also the great environment created principally by the children. Unfortunately, the school is very old. I attended it when it was under the patronage of the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It was. Having visited it recently, I was genuinely shocked to find that many of its fixtures and fittings were in place when I was a pupil. The school's condition is unlike that of my secondary school, which has been completely transformed. The windows are held together with plywood and there are large gaps in them. There is woodworm in old parquet floors, which are coming apart, and the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State's outline of the process. In replies that constituency colleagues and I have been receiving since last year, it was promised that we would be at this stage many months ago. It is frustrating that an "accelerated" process has been anything but accelerated. I have very few focal Gaeilge, but the Minister of State would want to be telling the officials in the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Student Accommodation (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Surprise, surprise,
- Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It is interesting when we have Bills where there is large amount of consensus, it often gives us the time in this House to talk about the other issues we would like to address to solve the core issue we are dealing with. I do not think we should underestimate the importance of the Bill. Deputy Catherine Murphy is right that there is always the potential for legislation to be a cheap way of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome all of our witnesses. They have been with us several times in recent years. I appreciate the engagement, in particular in light of the report, which we published. It is important to continue coming back to that and make sure that actions follow from it. I will return to that in a moment. I am interested in how Ms Hayes mentioned that on balance we have the same level of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How big is that cohort?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: There are 2,500 there who may not have eligibility for HAP.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. That is interesting because it is an area of the system we probably have not focused on. Is there a cohort that will have no entitlements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms Hayes is talking about fewer than 50 or 100 people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The core thing is those who currently may not have eligibility but who may develop it in the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, the supply issues are paramount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That brings us on to the report, which talked about establishing an inspectorate for the quality of service provision, both by NGOs and by private operators. Where is DRHE on that? What have its findings been over the period since the report was first published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Are there any that fall into that category of extreme concern?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: How many of those require fire remediation?