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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: That is in total. I ask for a ballpark figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Would it be fair to say that OMCs will be the primary beneficiaries of the bulk of that money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The payments will be made primarily through the OMCs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: They will be one of the principal distribution mechanisms for something north of €2.5 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: We essentially have legal entities that will be distributing billions of euro in public money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Yet, there is a list of concerns - if I can put it as mildly as that - that many people have about OMCs around conflicts of interests, previous developers being on boards and poor corporate governance on OMCs. I am not saying that about any of the OMCs represented here. We know, however, that because many of the OMC structures are based on volunteers and company directors who come and go,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I am a member of the public accounts committee. I could easily see a hearing being filled with a discussion on €2.5 billion being distributed through companies that are not formally regulated or do not have a proper overall regulatory structure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: It is a significant risk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Lambe has jumped ahead of me. It is difficult to see any other situation where such significant amounts of money would be distributed, albeit with protections, and I accept there will be protections in the apartment defects systems, to a sector where serious reforms are required. I would be saying to the Department of justice that if it leaves this on its desk for too long, we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: If we make the comparison with the charity sector, proper regulation was not put in place in some charities and it resulted, to our detriment, in genuine organisations being mired in all sorts of difficulties. The quicker we move on this, the better. I am taken by Mr. Lambe's suggestion that in order for people to get significant amounts of money through the apartment defects scheme, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: That is on extraordinary situation. On the issue of the assignment from one Department to another, I suggest, obviously pending a report from this meeting, that we write to the Department seeking that this be expedited.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: We have done more than you.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I will focus on two areas in the budget. One is the carer's allowance, particularly the means test. I was spokesperson on social protection previously and I have done some work with the carers' association. In the previous general election, the issue of the carer's allowance was discussed at some length. Two areas of concern were raised, one of which was the principle that if somebody is...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise. I ask the Government to look at the issue. We did not have an opportunity to do it in this budget and we need to move on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Members are all very welcome to today's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through. Members are reminded of the provisions within Standing Order 226 that the committee shall refrain from inquiring into the merits of a policy or policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government or the merits of the objectives of...