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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: To the other capital, I call Deputy Gould.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: We will move on to my slot. I thank the Minister for attending. Our debate on the Estimates is an important opportunity for us to ask the Minister about the way resources are allocated and discuss the priorities, etc. of the Department. If he viewed the work of this committee over the past six weeks he will have seen our discussions with numerous local authorities on the implementation...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Do local authorities have a role to play in promoting the scheme? I ask because often it is the local authorities that are the first to hear complaints that a property is derelict or receive requests for a property to be listed as derelict in accordance with the Derelict Sites Act. Does the Minister think it would be helpful if local authorities conducted a publicity campaign to promote the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I referenced cost rental. The Minister was in my constituency. On that occasion we visited different sites in Finglas and Ballymun. I know of 25 publicly-owned sites that have public projects on them, either a small infill or right up to larger sites. While all of them include things like senior citizens, for example, there is affordable purchase by Ó Cualann and Dublin City...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I am sure the Minister is familiar with the location of the Ballymun shopping centre site right on the Metro line. It is an attractive site in terms of potential to add to the community. Dublin City Council currently has that out for expressions of interest to see if a retail-led project can be delivered on that site. My view is it will also have to include housing. With interest rates...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: That is certainly welcome. We need to keep working on those derelict and potential sites in all parts of the city. We cannot leave it to local authorities to identify these sites. There is great pressure from communities to have positive developments, and that is the case in Ballymun. I will return to the issue of local authority finance. This week, I met Kathy Quinn, Dublin City...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I must keep the Minister to time as that was my contribution. I call Deputy Higgins.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Please, allow the Minister to continue.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy only has one minute remaining.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: We have agreed to let the Minister go at 3.30 p.m. and there are two members remaining, so I will allow each of them two minutes. I call Deputies Gould and Flaherty.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: The longer we continue, the less time we will have.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Just to remind him, the Minister is the one with the time pressure.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister and officials for being here today. That concludes the consideration of the Supplementary Estimates for Vote 34 and in accordance with Standing Order 101, a message to that effect will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil. I thank the Minister and the officials for this constructive meeting.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Message to Dáil (24 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 34 – Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I understand that is a matter for the Minister.
- Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.
- Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: We move to the Rural Independent Group. I call Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, who is sharing time with colleagues.
- Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Representatives of Meath and Kildare county councils recently appeared before the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss how they are implementing Housing for All. They followed the four Dublin councils and Cork, Waterford and Limerick councils, with more councils to appear before us in the new year. All of these councils are telling us the story of public...
- Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: We have to put this Bill in context. It is in the context of the Social Welfare Bill and the Finance Bill, of the announcements made on budget day and the resources this Government has been able to gather from the people of Ireland and those people who invest in Ireland to create wealth so that we can redistribute it. At the beginning of Covid-19 many people would have said it would be...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications that were processed in 2021; his plans to ensure that there are no delays in the processing of passports in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57513/22]