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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The anti-racism work in sport has been positive. Is that something that could be done at governmental level by, for example, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media? Has the Men's Development Network considered pursuing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry, but I asked too many questions. Perhaps AkiDwA might answer in the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am probably taking Deputy Clarke's time. When I get my turn again, maybe Ms Adejinmi can answer my questions. Would that be better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for missing some of the meeting but I was scheduled to ask a question in the House on promised legislation. The idea behind this session is that we can better understand, as part of the expansion of public housing throughout the State and the provision of Housing for All as a total package, how we can ensure we are building energy efficiency and sustainability into the stock,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Has SEAI engaged with the Department regarding that objective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We can put these questions directly to representatives of the Department when they are available. Certainly in my view, there should be no fossil fuel-based heating systems in any new homes that are built. There is no point in us having a retrofitting programme if we are building homes that, ultimately, will have to be retrofitted a second time. To return to the better energy homes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What about partnering or working with local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Last week, I saw a maisonette where only the top storey had been retrofitted, which is a completely farcical situation, but that was due to there being two different schemes and two different owners. There was no joined-up thinking at all. I accept that it is not the case, but there is definitely benefit in marrying thing together. I will ask more questions in the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I call Deputy Francis Noel Duffy . Mr. Meally can come back in at our next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There are just three and a half minutes to reply to all of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I believe the person responsible is unable to attend because of illness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That was agreed earlier, that is, we would have an opportunity to put questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have heard the Taoiseach speak about our current system of domestic violence shelters. His commentary was that they have sprung up where communities, rather than the State, have responded and that that is the wrong way to approach it and there needs to be the national infrastructure that we talk about. We are having the same issue with hospitals, schools and all other sorts of areas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If Ms McDermott is uncomfortable with me pressing her on this, I am happy for her to say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If Ms McDermott was to make that hard decision between what is to come, would it be her preference that domestic violence shelters be a fully public service with public governance? Is it possible to allow voluntary bodies, with all the limits on protections and so on, to be part of some sort of service delivery? Does Ms McDermott believe their role should be in advocacy and advice and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If we were to design a new system for housing, education and so many others, the broad political view is that we would not have so much dominance of voluntary sectors out of State control. The difficulty with that is if we apply that now to domestic violence shelters and someone in the Department sits down to plan out 30 or 40 shelters, one in every county-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: All of the learning we take from hospitals and education is not the same approach we need to take here because the people involved in domestic violence shelters are coming from, even though the same type of voluntary model, a totally different perspective than voluntary providers in other sectors-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: -----and we have to be very careful to try to marry them into the process, even if, ultimately, services are only provided by the State. I think we are saying the same thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate they were thorny questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the recently published National Economic and Social Council report, Shared Island: Shared Opportunity. [20364/22]