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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 absolutely hear that, but let me give an analogy. There is a fisherman on a lake and it is very hard getting the fish. He has to cover his costs. He is there all day and is not getting the rewards he wants so he develops a new tool called the momentum fund that lets him fish in a barrel. My worry about the momentum fund is that is a huge allocation - 40% of the overall fund, if I am...

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: Were there any indications in the market at that time that large-scale developers would have a restriction on credit because of Covid?

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: Did the predictions of that market research come to pass? Was there a restriction on credit 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: Was the HBFI's rate more preferential than the ones they could get 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: I still think 40% was a huge allocation for a temporary measure. That seems to go beyond the initial idea of identifying small to medium-sized projects. We are short on time but I want to get to the issue of performance-related pay. I am sure it is a matter that the HBFI wants to address too. There have not been allocations in these accounts. Is that something Ms Deering envisages...

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: Who are the decision-makers in that governance structure?

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 fully accept that people should be rewarded or remunerated. It is very important that we do not stifle creativity and so on. However, to go back to the fish-in-a-barrel analogy I made earlier, I would not like that quick fix to release 40% of the funds and get them out there to meet targets to be used as a basis of performance-related pay when the real goal is to support small and...

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: We need all types of housing. I agree with that.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for affordable housing in Dublin 9 and 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12090/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There seem to be two challenges here. One is to tell the witnesses how supportive we are of it and the other is to name all the community gardens in each of our constituencies. I will try to live up to the challenge previous colleagues have set. I think everyone in the room agrees with this because of how important it is and because of practical experience. I do not think that is a new,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am worried that it might have a chilling effect on local authorities transforming informal space into formal space if we over-regulate it. It is a balance about which we need to be careful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It was interesting when Ms Foreman talked about her own situation. She said there was already a waiting list for it and that if that had happened, her group would have been locked out of that space. It would not, therefore, have had the same ownership of that space. An idea or solution Ms Foreman suggested, for example, a standardised waiting list or some sort of waiting list, could in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Some of these proposals should form part of the work of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and there might be a good pipeline in that regard for policy as well.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I just came from a fantastic International Women's Day event in Finglas this morning. As a member of the gender equality committee to deal with the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly, I want to ask the Government whether it intends to hold a referendum on the issue of a woman's place in society and how we might reflect caring in our Constitution, in addition to addressing many of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the use that the Defence Forces are currently making of the Glen of Imaal. [13295/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Transport Authority (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. Having had the pleasure of sitting through the earlier Topical Issue debates, I often think this portion of the week better reflects the work I do in my clinic every week and probably the work every other Deputy in this House does. We are all committed to active travel. The Government has invested more in this area than...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Transport Authority (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is very welcome to hear the news that the National Transport Authority, NTA, is prepared to fund either Fingal County Council of Dublin City Council, subject to the details of an application. Oscar Traynor Road has been in the news for many other reasons, not least because of the new housing project that Dublin City Council will construct on the site for affordable, social and cost-rental...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the discussions that have been had with the Defence Forces with regard to the use of Cathal Brugha barracks for housing. [13296/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to deal with that issue under amendment No. 49 also, as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan has raised it. The point raised by the Minister of State and Deputy Ó Broin is about the balance that needs to be struck here. The difficulty is that we are dealing with such a broad range of suppliers, from very small operators and specialist operators right up to larger providers. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: And for the installation of heat pumps.