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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: To conclude, we have traditionally seen licences used in the commercial sector for the avoidance of the accrual of tenancy rights for commercial tenants. As we have increased the rights of tenants in the residential sector, this will increasingly become an issue. I ask the RTB to do everything in its power, from an education perspective, to inform people that licences are not an appropriate...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I strongly support today's motion. I want to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people following an outrageous breach of international law by the Russian Federation. The images of refugees pouring into neighbouring EU countries, families separating at borders and civilians being targeted by cluster bombs are all stark, and reminiscent of images we hoped Europe would not see again....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt the better energy warmer homes scheme is an important support for many eligible homeowners. It is one of the key tools that will help to reduce the use of carbon in our economy and help us reach our climate action goals. Since 2000, more than 143,000 homes have availed of the scheme and, in some ways, it has been a victim of its own success. When it was first promoted...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I particularly welcome the Minister of State's confirmation regarding the particular criteria I outlined, when he stated: For the first time, applications will be accepted from qualifying homeowners who previously received supports under the scheme but who could still benefit from even deeper measures. This means that applicants will now be able to have a second visit under the scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [11749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (2 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a list of the migrant reception centres in Dublin 9 and 11 will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11814/22]

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps I was too timid. I had four minutes at the end of Deputy Carroll MacNeill's contribution and I should have spoken up then. I promise that only two and half minutes were unused, so I do not think I will be wasting the House's time. As a member of this committee, I welcome the publication of this report. I commend Senator Flynn on the work she has done. Her election as our Chair...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Finglas roundabout scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12080/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Ms Deering for her statement and the Comptroller and Auditor General for his reports. I do not want to paraphrase what Ms Deering said, but I will focus on one line where she said the HBFI identified gaps in the existing fund available to creditors and did so in an efficient and rigorous way. I am thinking back to the development of the HBFI. In many ways, many of the new policy...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to focus on the HBFI's move away from focusing on that idea of small to medium sized towards the momentum fund, which I will discuss. Does Ms Deering regard that as mission creep or as identifying another gap in the market?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I will come back to that. Clearly, the HBFI has not seen the success in drawdowns for those smaller projects that it might have. Of almost €395 million approved facilities, the drawdown has just been approximately €37 million, which is 10%. I am trying to get to the bottom of why that is happening in the market so I can understand it from a policy perspective. I can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: As the HBFI heads into year three, was 10% of total approvals a target it hoped to exceed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Unfortunately, I am all too aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My question was, if the HBFI was starting on day one of the facility, would it have seen a 10% drawdown as a failure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Let us try to dig down into some of the reasons for the figure. Are people as ready as they could be when they come to the HBFI? For example, does planning permission need to be in place in advance of applications being made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: This is to help me in my work on the housing committee as much as anything else. We are speaking in very general terms. I am trying to get to the bottom of what those delays in drawdown are. I accept that Covid was an issue, although less so on the social housing side, and I hear what Ms Deering is saying about issues in legal transfers and so on. Have the witnesses examined why they have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The HBFI has not done any research on what the reasons might be for the applications in front of it-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: -----or categorised them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms Deering see that drawdown increasing? She mentioned the figure of 57%. From the perspective of value for money for the taxpayer, I am looking at a cost base in 2020 of €5.7 million and drawdowns of €37 million. Those numbers do not make for a good ratio. I want to see a pipeline of more rapid draw down.