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Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: That remark should be withdrawn.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 17 October 2024, of the 15,947 people who are currently in receipt of a half-rate carer's allowance payment and the State pension, the number of these that are caring for two or more people; the cost of paying the State pension and the current full-rate carer’s allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parents in receipt of the fuel allowance; the full-year cost of paying fuel allowance to lone parents who are €100 above the means test and also €75 above the means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of extending fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the domiciliary care allowance by €10, €15, €20, €25 and €30, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43997/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Nov 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a review of the decision not to award a transition payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44984/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I wish to be associated with the comments made earlier in regard to Deputy Denis Naughten in his last contribution to the House. In what I hope will not be my last contribution to the House, and I imagine many of us are in the same position, I raise the issue of Scoil Chiaráin on St. Canice's Road, in my area, which is a special school. Earlier in the summer, it received full...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Chris Andrews-----

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank everyone for coming in. We are always trying to use our time in the meeting. We are here to do a body of work. Sometimes for us it can be frustrating revisiting topics such as the impacts of poverty, intergenerational trauma and the concentration of this in disadvantaged communities. The reason it can be frustrating is because many of the people who are here at this committee are...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: That has an impact on retention and recruitment.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear Mr. D’Arcy there.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The question was about youth justice and that project.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Are there any organisations that are funded by youth justice?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: In theory, the UBU project is for general youth work and the youth justice system is for more targeted youth work. On young people being referred to services through the Garda referral process, what is Mr. Ducque's experience of criminal association with addiction or involvement in the sale or distribution of drugs? How does that get in the way of working with young people? Does it get in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: They are picking up too many charges.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is an opportunity to engage.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I acknowledge the Cathaoirleach's new position. I have no doubt but that she will continue the good work of the previous Chair in chairing this committee and doing it in a cross-party way. Our work in this committee is very important, but so is the way we do our work. It is important and different from other committees. I acknowledge this point. I thank Mr. Gloster and all the team for...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I saw a figure regarding the outpatient waiting lists having been reduced by 50,000 people. Mr. Gloster is saying this is a real reduction rather than a validation exercise.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Gloster repeat that figure?