Results 5,021-5,040 of 5,988 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Does the OPW have a figure for the total cost of the incorrect payments plus the payment to Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How much was paid in travel and subsistence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Yes. Given that the figures Mr. Conlon has provided total nearly €600,000 and that is just a percentage of the overall amount, one would imagine that the amount paid incorrectly in travel and subsistence was significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: One would expect it to be several million euro.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I find that difficult to understand, given the payment of €600,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Yes. In the short time available to me, I will mention a matter that my colleagues might take up subsequently, namely, vacant properties. I believe the OPW has a record 50 vacant properties. I accept that any portfolio will always have vacant properties, but less excusable are vacant properties arising from a decision to close certain Garda stations in 2012 and 2013. It is more than ten...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Conlon provide us with a list of the 31 stations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: One of those was the Finglas Garda station, which has been fantastically repurposed as a local crèche and is leased by an organisation. Having seen that success, one would be frustrated that there are still 31 buildings and, in particular, four residences vacant. Why are four residences still available after more than ten years? Ms Morrison might have read that there is a housing crisis.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I can show Ms Morrison Housing for All. The Minister, Darragh O’Brien, might give the OPW a grant under the repair and lease scheme or the Croí Cónaithe scheme. There is no excuse for having residences empty for more than ten years. I urge the OPW to take immediate action. There are just four properties, so it is not a major issue, but there is no reason for them to still...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Without going into specifics, it is difficult to understand. The metric I do not believe is ten years.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 35.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport can be expedited for a child (details supplied). [24731/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Recently, I met the Disability Federation of Ireland and the Irish Wheelchair Association following the decision by the Minister for Social Protection to end the Green Paper process and to carry out further consultation. We are heading into a budget. The ESRI has stated on the last two occasions that we have kept ahead of inflation by combining core increases and once-off payments but we...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport for a person (details supplied) can be expedited. [26297/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the social welfare entitlements of a person (details supplied). [26039/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 143. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on an operation (details supplied). [26417/24]
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Having listened to the contributions, we could spend several meetings going through the flaws in the system and the challenges we believe exist. The establishment of this dedicated committee is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us to get to grips with making this better. There are many flaws in the system and I accept that the witnesses know that, too. We can try to try to improve...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Often referred to as the two strikes system.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: That was the last time the Oireachtas took a position on the matter, so the Department is taking its lead from that with the health diversion system. The citizens’ assembly appeared to go further than that. Mr. Reid made clear the assembly’s view when he was before us. It is an advisory body and its opinion is not law, so I accept the Department cannot take a lead from it,...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Much of this will lie with the Department of Justice, given the way we have criminalised addiction and so on. One of the challenges is trying to operationalise the citizens’ assembly’s recommendations, assuming that is what we decide to do. How can the Department assist us? Perhaps it would be as micro as assisting us in drafting the wording of policies around the Misuse of...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Tell me about the two Departments. Mr. Ryan says this is the Department of Health's legislation, but issues of criminal justice and so on lie with his Department. Are there challenges of which we should be aware?