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- 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?
- 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: On that number, people exit in two ways. There are either granted protection or their application is denied. How many applications reached that conclusion in 2022 and are expected to do so in 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: Even if that was brought up to 100 a month, we would we talking about maybe 1,000 or 1,500 leaving-----
- 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: -----but with the potential for 15,000 to flow into the system.
- 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: In the scramble for accommodation to accommodate the 15,000, is there also an equal challenge, which perhaps we are not seeing yet, to increase the capacity to process applications?
- 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: Accommodation.
- 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 will stick with the patterns and where they might go. Does Mr. McCarthy believe the proposed changes in the UK had a significant impact on the flow into the Republic?
- 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: To help us understand that, traditionally, people claimed asylum at a port or airport. What percentage of applicants are making claims at ports and airports versus those who do not?