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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 332. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in Denmark (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10925/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will stay with the issue of value for money as part of public procurement. I have just left a meeting of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. There has been much debate around the impact of public procurement on the affordability of housing. I know Dublin City Council's quantity surveyors have essentially said that the public procurement process adds a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Moloney accept that the criteria for entry and the capacity to take part in public procurement tenders often limit the pool and this leads to an inevitable reduction in the competition available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I would argue the contrary. We are hoping to deliver a community facility that is being delivered by a not-for-profit agency. It indicated that the cost might be in the region of €300,000. It went out for public procurement and came back at €580,000 because many of the people with whom the agency had been speaking in advance were unable to participate. It does not seem as...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: It also applies to a lack of innovation sometimes or the inability of partners to develop innovative solutions because that developed solution will often have to go back out to the market and a competitor would then take that innovative solution. I am not hearing the reform of public procurement for which many public bodies are calling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to ask the Housing Allowance about mixed income, mixed tenure and the cost rental model. I will leave some time for that. I would like to concentrate on the CCMA. I welcome today's discussion because we have focused on the vast majority of the Bill, which does not involve shared equity home loans but rather the cost rental model and council-led affordable housing. I ask Mr. Curran...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I suggest that is a process rather than a target. Does Mr. Curran have a ballpark-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The fear is that, as Deputy Gould said, for the best part of 11 years, one of the main reasons developments did not happen was that the absence of the tools needed for mixed income and tenure development meant we could only build social housing. Now we will have the tools to do all three, and the fear is that local authorities will not have the ambition that is needed and will leave cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: On the ability to deliver mixed income and tenure estates for the first time, does Mr. Curran believe that will also assist in the approval process through council chambers and in getting communities to buy into these developments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Curran. On mixed income and tenure housing, every other sector of housing is responsible for providing it. Private providers do so via Part V. We always ensure there is a balance, even in places like Ballymun where Mr. Dunne and I worked. We sought to have mixed income housing and prevent cost rental developments becoming gated, middle class enclaves. How do we ensure there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the CCMA comment on how it envisages the council-led affordable scheme operating? Once the legislation is passed, when do the witnesses believe they will be at a stage where applications can be issued so that people can make an application for the scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank all of the witnesses. The discussion has been very broad and positive. Unlike previous sessions, we have focused on many of the positive elements of the Bill which will see secure and affordable public housing being delivered by public agencies, which is a significant shift in the Bill. I take on board the issue around funding. That has been discussed. Of course, something can...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: After a decade of housing policy that effectively abandoned affordable home ownership, a new Minister in a new Government is publishing legislation that introduces cost rental for the first time, reintroduces council-led affordable housing, applies a permanent affordability charge on all public land and provides affordable home loans to those accessing housing in the short term while these...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I hope my colleagues will leave time at the end for the Minister to answer. I had hoped to be able to bring the Minister on a tour of my constituency when she was appointed. Unfortunately, I will have to do that virtually here today. I want to raise three school issues with the Minister. One is the issue of Clonturk Community College, which we discussed last September. I know the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding provided to community co-working space in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10967/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the groups that availed of community co-working space in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding streams available for co-working space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the validity of motorbike initial basic training certificates given the extension of level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12075/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding car imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11745/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if takeaway food and drink is eligible to be claimed under the stay and spend scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12074/21]