Results 2,821-2,840 of 5,580 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy O'Donnell is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: They were good questions. I will continue Deputy O'Donnell's line of questioning, in particular that idea of shopping around and the fact there are other competing interests. That underscores the point I was making earlier about local authorities developing affordable purchase on their own lands, where they act as developer and the builder is the client who builds the homes. That then puts...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council does have the land but it has prioritised other types of housing for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is fair enough but the council has given very little to affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Mixed tenure is crucial and I represent a constituency where that has been the case. To move off that idea of affordable purchase, affordable rental and social delivery, I want to acknowledge the huge amount done by the two local authorities, which, compared to many that have come before us, are doing huge work. I have asked each of the local authorities a question and it is as blunt as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The council needs more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Would it be a fair assessment to say that the constraints on further delivery lie outside the idea of either financial resources or local authority staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: When this Dáil started in February 2020, the only toolbox that the local authorities had was to build social housing. If the council was going to build a development, that is all it could provide and everybody in that estate was going to be earning less than €42,000, and the limit was lower again in some parts of the country. Inevitably, the only tool available to the councils...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I got the impression from Ms Curley’s answer that the councils do not yet have an affordable purchase scheme in place. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I mean a selling scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is the word I was looking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I warn Deputies that we have reached the end of the rota. Rather than go through a new circle, I will ask for lámha suas from anybody else who wants to come in. With regard to voids, the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, issued its report on Friday, and Limerick had a 56-week waiting time for voids and in Waterford it was 31 weeks. Rather than me editorialising, I will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms Curley is talking about long-term voids.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: To continue Deputy O’Donnell’s point, the council’s issue is money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What is the position in Waterford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That would have brought Waterford to having one of the best performances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I can see Deputy Gould is shocked with that answer and I was too. It shows how the housing crisis is very different in different parts of the country. Four speakers are indicating. Does everybody wish to speak? We might do the officials a favour. Rather than the officials coming back a second time, we will give all members eight minutes each and have one more round. Is that okay? Okay....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Thank you, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy, you got an extra minute so you would stay within the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: No. You are not doing that either.