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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme. (26 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The idea of low demand strikes me as a complete lack of ambition by many local authorities to solve the housing crisis. If it is not possible to do it in this decade when numbers were so difficult and if it was not possible to do it in the in the past decade for the same reason, I cannot imagine a time when they would be ambitious. I accept that the authority is effectively dealing with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest demographic information used, including figures of projected population growth of school age children, to analyse the projected need for future schools in Meakstown, Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40061/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the stage 1 and 2a application for a school (details supplied), given the chronic shortage of second level school places for boys in the area for 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40062/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 122. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the packages of support available to taxi drivers to assist and support them during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39594/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a minibus driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied) which has a waiting list of six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39595/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on changes to bank charges at banks (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this may lead to substantial increases for some customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if allegations raised regarding balcony defects in an estate (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review salaries of communication supports who are assigned to children in both primary and secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39599/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the regions which will be prioritised for funding in relation to additional funding for new services in local employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the establishment for the recently announced new local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39938/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process for choosing the providers of the recently announced new local employment services. [39939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the four new additional local employment services to be established will have the same operational basis as the existing community-led local employment services providers across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy measures being taken by her Department to help young people secure employment particularly in areas of high unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE staff in Kenmare Community Hospital and other locations in County Kerry who are dealing with Covid-19 cases will only be rostered to assist with these patients and will not be rostered to work on other wards or with other patients who have not contracted Covid-19, as per the guidelines of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39587/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Defects: Discussion with Construction Defects Alliance (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for joining us. In many ways, it is poignant that they are joining us from their homes, which are the subject of today's meeting. Many of those who have spoken have said they were not in a management company at a particular time. That is partly because the group of people which has been asked to take on many of these issues comprises those who voluntarily contributed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Defects: Discussion with Construction Defects Alliance (1 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I do not think we will get a third round. Senator Dooley was due to contribute on this and wanted to raise the issue of pyrite and mica in Clare. I just want to put it on the record. Obviously, we will not be able to get to that third slot.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept the Chairman is making an apology to the committee. Apart from distracting from the work of this committee, my view is that the apology should be made to those impacted by the tweet, rather to us. I was not going to comment on the issue but in the Chairman's explanation and in Deputy Carthy's contribution, whether it was a clumsy tweet or a strategic approach, as another member...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to get the advice of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the points made on postage costs. It is very clear from the breakdown given that the overall figure of €13.8 million for post and telecommunications is largely, as we suspected, with regard to the postage of payslips, which amounts to more than €10 million. In the course of the Secretary General's contribution,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (3 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 120. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the extension to maternity leave is not being introduced until April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40768/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in providing community employment supervisors access to pensions in line with the 2008 Labour Court recommendation to provide access to an occupational pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39903/20]