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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move on to the AHB sector. I am Vice Chair of the Oireachtas housing committee and we have a line of accountability over what is happening in that area. We are just completing a round of delivery of Housing for All with AHBs and the local authorities and it has been very interesting to see how different local authorities and AHBs have been availing of the new tools that are available...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I am just conscious to hear from the regulator as well. Chair, I do not know whether there is time.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: No. I think the Chair is-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the eSPSV grant will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (19 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Finglas to Killester cycle scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2123/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the employment regulation order for the security industry. [2189/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the backlog and wait times for an NCT test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allow local authorities to use incremental credits to recruit more-experienced staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 1899. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Dublin City Council made an application under the town and village renewal scheme; and if so, if the council is eligible for same. [63428/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank out witnesses for being here today. The first question I want to ask Mr. McCarthy draws from my experience both on the Committee of Public Accounts and this committee regarding the whole area of local government auditing. There have been several media reports around different accounts of spending in different local authorities. I know from our discussions at the Committee of Public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I take Mr. McCarthy's point about it being well audited. The second part of an auditing process is holding the auditor's report to some form of democratic accountability. That is the area in which the current system struggles a little bit. RTÉ covered very widely the local government auditor's reports recently in a programme. It created much public concern around some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear what Mr. McCarthy is saying that ultimately the decision to work in this area lies with the Minister and the Department. I will not press him on that. One point I will make to him, though, is that often when there is media coverage of an event, there can be complexities to it that are not often covered in the media. As Mr. McCarthy said, for several of the incidents that were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Is the data NOAC is working on provided by the Departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any scrutiny of the back and forth between the Departments and the local authorities? I know from being a local authority member that sometimes the local authority will say it is with the Department and the Department will say it is with the local authority. There can be time delays and cost increases as a result of that interaction. It may be no one's fault but it is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: As an Oireachtas committee, we constantly try to engage with members through the local authority members associations, AILG and LAMA, and with the CCMA. It is obvious that the resources available to the CCMA are far greater than those available to the secretariats of the representative bodies of councillors. As Mr. McCarthy said, we are increasingly dealing with those bodies to input into...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State for acknowledging that I have raised this issue. I do not need to come before the House to talk to the Minister for Education because I get the opportunity to do so every week at our parliamentary party meeting. I am sending the message here to the officials in the Department of Education as well and to those people in the school building unit that Gaelscoil...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have a very specific question for the Minister of State. I hope to hear good news. Chuaigh mé chuig Gaelscoil Uí Earcáin i bhFionnghlas an mhí seo caite. Is scoil iontach í le hiarscoláirí agus múinteoirí iontacha. The school is doing a great job in a very poor building. Schools are often very slow to talk about the failings of their...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Collins is right that is has been going on for 30 years but we must acknowledge that in the nearly two and a half years in which we have had a Fianna Fáil Minister - we had this debate on Wednesday night - we have made those changes. We are committed to public housing. We want to deliver it. I accept the politics of competition where we all have to criticise each other's...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I was in the Ceann Comhairle's seat earlier. When one is chairing the Dáil, one should be independent. I found myself inadvertently nodding in agreement each time Deputy Ó Cuív spoke, which I imagine is inappropriate. I have never seen the Ceann Comhairle do it.

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have to reflect on Deputy Ó Cuív's contribution. For me, it sums up Fianna Fáil's approach to social housing. We have a long-standing commitment to the concept of social and public housing. There are criticisms of where that policy differed in the past. I repeat the line that I gave in the motion of confidence in the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, during the week, that...