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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to amending the bike to work scheme to allow more cohorts access the scheme, including the self-employed and retired persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 312. To ask the Minister for Finance the work done to date on insurance reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34807/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the planned €5 million investment in DEIS schools will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34810/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the lack of multi and non-denominational primary school places in Dublin 11; her plans in relation to the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34811/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of discussions her officials have had with officials in Fingal County Council in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 regarding future educational needs in the Meakstown, Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34812/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for changes to the patronage competition system for new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34813/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out for the supplementary welfare allowance scheme in each of the years 2015 to 2019 in Intreo offices (details supplied). [34817/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when pandemic unemployment payment recipients who are due backdated payments will receive their payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35029/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [35212/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacy staff that were wearing masks and deemed a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case are classed as casual contacts and can continue to work. [34749/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: As a public representative, I have often said that the only thing more unpopular than the housing shortage is the construction of housing. I can understand the motivation behind trying to ensure a speedier delivery but there was no acceptance in the opening statements today that the introduction of SHDs has significantly undermined the construction of housing. Housing often involves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: My questions are on the clustering of SHD applications and the comparison with local area plans, LAPs, or strategic development and regeneration areas, SDRAs. Do the witnesses accept that when there are clustered SHDs, they effectively bypass or undermine existing LAPs or the potential to have new LAPs? The witnesses have talked about relying on the zoning and on each application standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: So there is no impact from an appeal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: It is fair to say that at local authority level there is a far greater track record of those things being considered in a holistic way rather than on a stand-alone basis for each application.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: We have run out of time but I would ask for a written response on the question on tenure.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: We are 50 days away from when the UK may leave the Single Market and customs union and the end of the transition period. I echo the Minister’s comments where he hopes the provisions of this Bill are never required. Ultimately, an agreement is in the best interests of all of these islands and the peoples on them. One reads the provisions of the Bill more in sadness than in anger....

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for participating. I do not have many OPW sites in my constituency. I will return to that point in a moment, but one site that we are proud of is the National Botanic Gardens. It is a great local facility that has been used a great deal during the pandemic. I commend the OPW on the way the gardens are managed. I do not expect the witnesses to have an answer now,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: My colleague, Deputy Devlin, spoke about the impact of Covid and how it might make the Civil Service consider office space and so on. I am afraid that there will only be a debate between central Dublin and those counties outside Dublin. However, there is an important sector in the middle, namely, the outer Dublin suburbs. There is a building in the centre of Finglas that is largely empty,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Many of those local villages have seen the benefit in the form of, for example, reduced carbon footprints. Mr. Bourke is right, in that this is about co-working as well as reducing space.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: It is important that we give civil servants and others the opportunity to co-work. I am a director of Innovate Dublin, which operates a co-working space in Ballymun and is partnering with the local authority in Dublin 8 on other projects. I would encourage the OPW to work with these types of organisation. They are not for profit, are in local authority buildings and are satisfying a need....