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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The past hour or so has been incredibly useful. Adding all the various policy tools that have been outlined, including the URDF and Town Centre First and so on, I take my perspective from the towns and villages in my community. Many are what might be called urban villages. I am thinking of areas like Finglas and towns like Ballymun. They could be replicated in places like Raheny and new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We can look at the examples of applications for any of the villages. There are great schemes relating to empty buildings in the centre of rural towns that are being used as community hubs or for other purposes. I could talk about empty pubs in Finglas village and derelict sites in Ballymun or Santry. Those urban villages all have the same needs and I would argue that they all have the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the principal vehicle for those urban villages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would like to come back to an area that may have been covered earlier. I apologise if it was because, like Deputy O'Reilly, I was in the Chamber. I refer to compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. Local authorities have spent millions on what could be described as the unsuccessful pursuit of properties. In many cases, it is not as much the availability of resources as the chilling effect a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is the issue of the first phase of the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, and the second phase. The only project to benefit from the URDF in my constituency was €37,000 for a feasibility study on the Dunsink lands. Some of my colleagues asked me if it was €40 million, and I said it was just €37,000. That was a case of the local authority using money to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is welcome but there are three caveats I would put on it. First, it is a very complicated site that has a large population of the Traveller community who would need to be consulted. Second, there have long been promises that the site would be for sports and recreation facilities. Third, Fingal County Council has a long history of building large unsupported residential developments on...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Like many Irish people, I have looked at the devastation in Mariupol and - let us call it for what it is - the war crimes that are being committed there. I have seen the real fear and anxiety in Kyiv and in each European Union country that borders Russia. It is very hard to be neutral when we look at the pictures each night or talk to people in any of those places. It is very hard to have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport application by a person (details supplied), which was submitted on 28 October 2021 and for which the expected issue date was 6 January 2022, will be expedited given there has been no update on the tracker or communication from the Passport Office. [14548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [14562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post-primary schools in an area (details supplied); and the number of pupils, teachers, SNAs and annual State funding by school in tabular form. [13880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an update available on an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) as clarifying medical information was submitted and they have not received a payment. [14553/22]

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

Paul McAuliffe: I preface my remarks by thanking the Minister for his kind words regarding an t-iar-Theachta Dála agus an t-iar-Sheanadóir Dermot Fitzpatrick. The thoughts of those of us in Fianna Fáil and throughout the House will be with his family, in particular his daughter Senator Mary Fitzpatrick. I imagine in the Upper House there will be plenty of time to talk about the doc and pay...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (24 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15153/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any sanctions are being considered in relation to the diplomatic presence of Russia in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15152/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is great to have everybody here. The committee wants to focus on delivery and the delegations represent key parts in that. Many on the Government side in particular feel that the legislative job has been done in many ways, but there is still a bit of work to do in the context of Housing for All. We want to focus on the agencies that can deliver. On that basis, it is great to have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: To anticipate Mr. Jordan's answer, is there potential for conflict in the CREL scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is still an issue at local authority level. I suppose it is because of a legacy of number of local authorities not being involved with the provision of social housing for some time. We need to gear up in that regard. Some of this is about access to information and knowledge, as well as access to finance. We have also said to other agencies that communication is really key in terms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It relates to increased borrowing.