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Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Even if no change is made, a lot of people will ask why not put more people through the drugs court; why is it not operating nationally,; why do we not do more and is that model not used more? Will the witnesses answer some of those questions?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I will ask about mental health because often we find, and it was part of the dual diagnosis report conducted by the Finglas Addiction Support Team, FAST, and DCU, that so much of the two issues are interlinked. From the witnesses' work in the drugs court, and Mr. Duffin's at Ana Liffey, will they paint a picture of how much of a role mental health plays in the area of addiction?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that about trying to find places for treatment?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: And Mr. Duffin?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on an increase in the CIÉ pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40418/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a living alone allowance application for a person (details supplied). [40391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands' Report entitled ‘Report on Energy Poverty 2024’. [40508/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the ASD assessment for a child (details supplied). [40358/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40566/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the gross human rights abuses carried out by the Taliban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/24]

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I start by talking about the progress of Ireland over the past 20 years. There has been a lot of discussion in the House about poverty. However, the SILC report published prior to the budget indicated that those at risk of poverty was 10.6% in 2023. That is a historic low and is down from 20% in 2005. We have halved the number of people at risk of poverty over 20 years. The number of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: This was in 2014.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: We have doubled the numbers since three years ago. How can that be working?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to raise with the Tánaiste the policy of the National Transport Authority, NTA, which, for the past ten years, has been trying to remove the number 11 bus. It was successfully resisted in 2014 but was unfortunately put back on the table again in 2017. Despite multiple changes and the addition of Wadelai Park and Home Farm back on the route, but only on an hourly basis, and then...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Disadvantaged Status (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I join with my other colleagues who put forward this proposal along with the principals because it makes eminent sense. Many people entered this House for many different reasons, to fight many causes, but all of us are united by the idea that there are children who are born who deserve equal opportunity, that they deserve to be supported and that education is a place where that can be done...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is welcome to see additional money being spent in this area, given the commitment of everybody in the room to the issue. I have a number of questions. The Minister can choose to answer those that he wishes. The first relates to housing projections. The Estimates relate to spending this year. Obviously there is a budget provision for next year. We intend to publish new housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister might touch on an issue, although I do not expect him to have a solution to it. I refer to clarity on funding for local authorities, in particular to assist councillors and local authority members to understand how much money is coming in from central government and how much is disappearing in one fund and reappearing in another. Councillors really struggle to have a line of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am directing my question to the Minister's officials as much as I am to him. From my experience of sitting on a finance group in a local authority, it can be very challenging not to know the details. For example, it can be very difficult to keep track of the cash in Dublin city, because of the very significant proportion of our budget required for emergency accommodation to deal with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Chair allow me one last question? The Minister mentioned the tenant in situ scheme. From my experience in my clinic, it is transformative for people coming to us with an eviction notice who are then able to secure housing. I cannot underscore how important the scheme is. The level of openness and ambition that seems to have been available to the scheme in recent years should not...