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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of Urban Regeneration and Development Fund funding for each Dublin local authority for the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9192/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the pension for a person (details supplied) can be carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the grants that are available for persons looking to set up a childcare, breakfast club or after-school facility in the community as either a community group or a private operator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the provision of primary and secondary education in Whitehall and Santry, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10421/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Tánaiste outline to the House the legislation we as a Government have passed that empowers local authorities to build public housing on public land? Does he reject what happened yesterday in the Chamber when several terms like "sweetheart deal" and "blackmail attempts" were used deliberately to misrepresent what is happening with O'Devaney Gardens? This was a democratic...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can the Tánaiste outline to the House the legislation we have passed that empowers local authorities to build public housing on public land?

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Town Centre First is yet another tool with which the Government can tackle the housing crisis. It aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into town centres. People have reconnected with their communities throughout the pandemic, underlining the importance of high-quality public streets, parks and other amenities in towns that provide space for communities to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for being here for this Topical Issue debate because I know that he, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, treat this matter with the utmost seriousness. We have had nearly two days of housing meetings with chief executives and housing directors of local authorities across the country with the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State outlining some of the many things contained in Housing for All, the Affordable Housing Act 2021, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 and the many other measures that he mentioned. We need to go further and start to make sure that every local authority knows the breadth and depth of this housing plan, that every local authority knows how much is in here and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will not require seven minutes. I apologise that I was delayed at a meeting of the Committee on Public Accounts next door. I have not quite mastered the ability to be omnipresent in both meetings. Zoom gave me the option to do that for a while, but it is not possible physically. I thank the witnesses for the detail in the submissions that have been made. It really assists the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The real work often happens in the private sessions of the committee when we are haggling back and forth over the wording of the pre-legislative scrutiny reports. I promise Ms Teehan all of what she has submitted will form part of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have one further question. There was some concern about combining heritage and planning in one Department and conflicts arising from that. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan ,has done fantastic work in that area. We are a year and a half into that process. Have the witnesses any observations on combining the planning and the heritage responsibilities in the Department? These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Open-ended questions are always bad, are they not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I begin with the comments from the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the discrepancy in the documents laid before the House and the removal of the clarifying line about the outcome or expected timeline of the project. I apologise if I missed a comment on it during the witnesses' opening statement while coming from my office to here. Why was that sentence removed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: For the record of the House, will Mr. Byrne describe the details of that sentence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I can only take Mr. Byrne at his word on the evidence he has put before us. I would not detract from his good name in any way by saying that he is misleading us. Many sceptical people may view the removal of this line as not being accidental but as an attempt not to outline the direction of the project as clearly as it was done in 2020. To help Mr. Byrne to address that, what should I say...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is important for Mr. Byrne to outline that here. That is not in any way to take from his good name. It is important for the record of the House for that to be reflected, because the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General is so important both for the RTB and the House.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I refer to the data collected by the system. What kind of analysis is conducted by the RTB to identify landlords who have unregistered tenancies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Byrne but having used up some of my time addressing the omission of a sentence, I want to move on. I apologise if that butchers Mr. Byrne's answers. I want to turn to the issue of those tenants who may be the subject of a licence rather than a tenancy. As Mr. Byrne knows, most licence arrangements do not come under the remit of the RTB, which means that...