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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is postage not increasing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: If the Department does not solve this, it will only get worse.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I have 18 seconds left. At one of my first meetings as a member of this committee, we dealt with the Department of Education. This was the issue that day. I have been here for five years and the Department has not solved the problem. Please deal with this matter before the Department of Education comes before the 34th Dáil. It is a major failure in the context of an issue that could...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out of the social welfare entitlements of a person (details supplied). [22238/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [22350/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank all the witnesses for being here today and for the work that they do, which is often in some ways unheralded until it comes into focus. I do not think anybody will mind me singling out members of the fire service and the work that they do both in Dublin, which I am very familiar with, and across the whole country in respect of both full-time and retained fire services. What the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: To clarify that point, because it is interesting, taller buildings must reach that particular standard going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: As this is an incredibly technical area, let me try and stay with Mr. O'Dowd. In colloquial terms, one might call that a combustible fire system and a non-combustible fire system. They are very generic terms. Is it correct that there have been products on the market that do not reach that standard? To date, have cladding systems been used that do not reach that standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is not an assessment of a system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: In comparison to other international regulations, perhaps where there is more experience with higher buildings over a longer time, where does Mr. O'Dowd believe these newer guidelines fit within the spectrum of protection? Are they on the more lenient end? Are there countries with higher levels of protection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for cutting Mr O'Dowd off. I will ask Mr. Keeley a question. I am wondering about the Metro Hotel fire specifically as it is the most high-profile high-rise building in the city. What learnings have the fire service taken from that incident? What changes have been made and does he think must be made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sure my colleagues will continue on that point but I have stretched the Chair's patience with regard to time.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) can be expedited. [22649/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 643. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a hip operation for a person (details supplied). [22965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [23210/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank our guests for being here today. I will continue the line of questioning started by Deputy Murphy. A number of her questions point to one of the structural issues in the way that funding and the accountability of funding is structured in the Defence Forces. Clearly, Ms McCrum is the Accounting Officer and we ask her questions when she comes before us. Many people in the Defence...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I take the point. The separation of powers and responsibilities-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: -----is really fundamental and we should avoid mistakes made by other countries. However, there is a feeling that more opportunity or more support should be given to military leadership around decision-making processes. I refer to things like recruitment and retention, as mentioned by a previous Deputy, decisions on capital purchases and the allocation of resources for cybersecurity. Can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms McCrum accept that the Chief of Staff is in a difficult position? Other agencies of government - often to the detriment of Government policy or the Minister - advocate in public for their service or improvements in their service. They may make a public case against or to the Department. The Chief of Staff is not in that same position. The Chief of Staff is in a much more difficult...