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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the structure; it has to have some degree of agility on the ground because it has to respond to local needs. There has to be a sustainable intervention. We cannot have officials from the Department of the Taoiseach going to every community in the country. That is not a sustainable model. We have put in the work in Ballymun, however. We have done it in the way recommended by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Within the Department, regardless of which Ministers are in place or whatever, I would appreciate her support in ensuring that is executed because it is really needed. We also need it rolled out in other communities around the country as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I ask the Chairman to indulge me. Unfortunately, I was in the House for Leaders' Questions. Like Deputy Verona Murphy, I would like to raise the issue of the University of Limerick.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I am just flagging it with the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Mark Darmody met with me and a number of representatives from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party last week and the correspondence is from him. He has also met representatives of other political groupings across the House and, obviously-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Is it possible to address it here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. As I said, Mr. Darmody forwarded the correspondence to me, having met with a number of Fianna Fáil Deputies. I understand he met political groupings right across the House. This was last week. I forwarded the correspondence to the committee. Subsequently, it became a matter of debate at Leaders' Questions this week. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, has also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I would like to clarify, in case I misspoke. In this case, it is about Mr. Darmody's son. Ms Cara Darmody was in advocating for him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Exactly, yes. I do not take from anything which any of the other Deputies have said. There might be a piece of work here for us in the whole area of disability services. However, in very discreet questioning to the HSE, we need to ask what happened in this case. Essentially, the HSE adopted the private appointment of an individual as their private appointment and paid the bill for that....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I may be creating a significant difficulty for the Government here, but what about all of the parents who have already paid these fees, now that we find out that one parent, because they were selected by the HSE, apparently without criteria, received payment? I want to finish with one sentence from Mr. Darmody. He says he believes serious questions need to be asked regarding where the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: -----and would shut up their mouths. Mr. Darmody is not doing that, and he has exposed something very significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes, Chair. Deputy Verona Murphy indicated first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I was reflecting on last week's performance. The question is, what purpose is there in bringing people in here? What do we get from it? Ultimately, it is about ensuring that there is accountability with regard to public money, and that is done in an open way. Our first engagement with the University of Limerick, or its first engagement with this committee anyway and not previous...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but it appeared to me that the University of Limerick was unhappy with the way information was presented to them, and it had a process to try to discover that. I would have thought that what we were doing was helpful to them in exposing what had happened. I thought what happened last week was incredibly unsatisfactory from our side, but it was also incredibly unsatisfactory from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That is the point I was going to make. From last week's meeting, it is clear to me that the review is a governance review and does not deal with value for money or the financial elements, including whether the university paid the correct rate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As a committee, we need to reflect on what happened last week and decide on what areas we think are important. I agree that we should ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to bring forward proposals as to how the committee might deal with the issue and to suggest what additional information or format might prove useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We are still not clear on whether the university paid the correct value or whether it paid below or above the market value. That is the problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I do not understand what "hold fire" means.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It is good to see the officials again. I have worked with them in different guises. I would not worry about using the wrong titles. There are often occasions when local authority officials are in here and we revert back to calling them managers. We can always get it wrong and it says more about my age than anything the chief executive said. I want to discuss two points of complexity...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We would not want to see it get in the way of attracting investment to an area that needed regeneration, for example.