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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter in relation to school transport for a child (details supplied) [3666/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (26 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 197. To ask the Minister for Health when speech and language therapy will be provided for a person (details supplied). [3943/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I intend to speak for only one minute. While I very much welcome the Bill because I believe we need reform in higher education, I in fact was a member of a higher education governing body and never attended a meeting. You might ask why would I be proud of that. I did it because I was an automatic member as the Lord Mayor. It is a terrible way of governance of any institution to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: During the general election campaign, the overwhelming majority of members of the committee committed to try to increase the supply of housing. A large majority of the committee believe that we should do that by increasing the supply of public housing using AHBs and local authorities. If we answer that question in 2021 with the publication of Housing for All and the multi-annual budget, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In the case of those 25 sites, therefore, the funding and policy instruments are available. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is an estimate that those 25 greenfield sites could accommodate 2,000 units. That would represent a significant supply with all of them on public land owned by Dublin City Council, with no other ownership and so on. Is the Department ensuring that the council follows through on the obligations to deliver that given that it is probably one of the largest opportunities to allow urban...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The question that many local representatives have is whether it is a priority. We know the tools are there but are we waiting on Dublin City Council to have the ambition for this or is the Department monitoring that ambition?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have published an update on each of those 25 sites. I appreciate that Dublin City Council is being monitored. If it fails to live up to the ambition of the Department and the members of this committee, how will the Department react? Are there sanctions it may put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. Many other representatives have spoken about the importance of urban regeneration and its complexity with multiple stakeholders and so on but here we have a town that was long promised regeneration. All the tools are on the table. There is a single local authority and a single housing authority and all of it remains in public housing. If we cannot deliver urban regeneration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There needs to be a recommendation in the report that there should be greater transparency around the targets and places. While overall targets can be met, we are talking about communities and towns. These are places that need that regeneration, rather than targets being met elsewhere. I take Ms Graham's point. Moving on to private sites, I turn to another area in my constituency, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will urban towns in Dublin be able to access Croí Cónaithe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I return to my previous question. When will private owners be able to apply for Croí Cónaithe, towns or cities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Lastly, we have a very welcome development where an old, historical building, Ashgrove House in Finglas, is now being used for social housing. There was no policy instrument required there, just the ambition of a great AHB. What are we doing to ensure that AHBs identify these sites, purchase them and turn them into social housing, using all the existing instruments available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Again, I believe we have to monitor the ambition in that area as much as the delivery. Targets are no good if we do not meet them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: First, I must apologise to the other witnesses with whom I have not engaged today. I very much appreciate the submissions they have made and have no doubt that this committee will try to include as many as possible in its final report. I am using my time to question the Department but perhaps if we had more modules, we might have been able to call witnesses to separate meetings. I wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry to interrupt but is Mr. Hogan saying that this will be available to both new communities and existing communities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is part of a much bigger debate and is very welcome. There has been some discussion of CPOs and enhanced CPOs. When will that full range of policy tools be available to local authorities? There is a lot of concern about reticence at local authority level, which is based on experience. They have spent millions of euro on CPOs that have not delivered anything. What can we do to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the progress made in relation to the High-Level Implementation Plan for Strengthening our Defence Forces; when the completed project reports will be shared with Defence Forces representative associations in line with the request from the chairperson of the Defence Forces Conciliation Council; and if he will make a...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise to the Chair for missing my slot. I advised the clerk that I had an alternative committee. I presume that I am too late to come back in at this point, am I? Perhaps to assist the Chair, many of my questions are for the TII, who will be with us next week. Perhaps I will reserve my questions for next week. Having worked with Ms Graham in the past, that if there are other issues...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I was solving gender balance, Chair, which only takes an hour or two. Unfortunately, it does not.