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- Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We will not accuse Deputy Collins of corruption.
- Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: He is making an accusation. You can talk when your time comes. Is that fair enough? I will not interfere when Deputy McAuliffe is speaking unless he wants to thank me and perhaps I might.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The Government has very ambitious climate action targets. We also want to support small businesses. This is why we have very generous grants for taxi drivers wishing to switch over to electric vehicles, EVs. Last year, there was no stock but many people who wanted to change over. The scheme closed in December 2022 and has not yet opened for 2023. The Taoiseach has heard me ask about this...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can confirm the date a school (details supplied) will begin to operate in its new location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9212/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for construction of extra accommodation for a school (details supplied); and the nature, extent and purpose of the proposed construction, estimate costs and timeline. [9213/23]
- Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome this motion. I see that the former Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, has just left. I know the contribution he made to the preparation of this citizens' assembly. It is important to say we would not have reached this point without significant voices in all political parties and many at a community level calling for this citizens' assembly to be established. We know the Misuse...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It is important we name those comments. Then people can learn from them and say they might or might not have intended them. It is important to flesh that point out.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course. When I said naming, I meant the examples.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for interrupting but I have three and a half minutes to get to the Chamber. I ask Mr. Daly to continue to give his answer and I will read it in the Official Report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank my colleague, Senator Fitzpatrick, for allowing me to take the first slot. Before I launch into the planning side, I am very conscious that when we are not talking about planning or heritage at this committee, we are dealing with housing legislation. In the past three years, we passed a huge volume of housing legislation that, in the main, falls on local authorities and local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Councillor Shannon will have seen the development of local area plans, LAPs, and all the effort that goes into development plans. Sometimes, very little happens during an LAP. There are some changes to the substructures underneath. Does Councillor Shannon have any comment on that or on the ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It also would not be in line with the decision the Government made to reverse the strategic housing development, SHD, process, which took that power away. Councillor Shannon made a point about the plan being the members' plan. As a local authority member, I was always very conscious that often my only source of information was officials. If the officials did not want to do something, I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I will allow Councillor Killian to come in on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I am conscious the Chair is rigorous about timing. What length would councillors put on a plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for not calling in the witnesses who are not elected members. For the reason Councillor Killian just outlined, I wanted to make sure councillors had their say.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As a non-member, I thank the committee for allowing me and others to speak. I am watching the debate on a motion for a citizens' assembly on drug use taking place in the House, which is something I waited a long time for. I regret missing it, but this conversation is crucial. Deputy Murnane O'Connor is right to say it is an emergency. I noted the reaction and how communities responded...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Secretary General and the full complement of officials. It looks like half the Department is with us today. I appreciate they are extremely busy in responding. I think I am correct in saying the Vote before us concerns approximately €1 billion and the Vote that will be before us for 2022 will involve approximately €2 billion, which shows the scale of the increase...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: For the record, what was the increase last year compared with 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Does the Department expect a similar number for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Is it likely we will get to December and might have up to 40,000 people in emergency accommodation?