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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...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 56. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to increase grants and funding to community centres and halls to help them transition to more sustainable energy methods and help pay for increased energy costs. [62331/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any potential funding streams are available to a centre (details supplied) for the targeted youth employability support initiative, which was previously funded under the Dormant Accounts Fund by the Department of Children, Equality; Disability, Integration and Youth but has not been renewed as a multi-annual...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We have disagreed on a lot but I think we can all agree that for many, house prices are unaffordable, rents are too high and an unacceptable number of people are in temporary accommodation. However, I rise to my feet to support the Minister because I believe he is leading the charge to address the housing crisis. As Vice Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The mask slips now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What type of pound?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I do not want to rake over what we have just discussed, but this is simple. The reason an advertisement is taken out is to try to promote or to create a positive feeling towards an organisation, and it is clear that this advertisement has not done that. Does Mr. Algeo believe that the advertisement has been destructive to the image and reputation of the national lottery?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Algeo is returning to the issues of allocation. That was not the question.