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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask Mr. Curran to respond to that point on affordable purchase because we have not focused on it yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have a question about cost rental. Will Dublin City Council be in the business of providing cost rental or will it leave it to AHBs predominantly? The same question is for Dún Laoghaire. All of the viability issues spoken of earlier for apartments and so on feed into that. Is there an opportunity for us to avail of some of the build-to-rent developments that have been given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Build to rent-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: For cost rental?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: This has been a very useful discussion, especially with regard to the issue of cost. In the course of the discussion, somebody texted me to say that the costs are exorbitant. They really are. That is something we are going to have to examine. In a position where the State is effectively acting as the developer, where there are no land costs and no developer's premium, where the State is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What element or percentage of the cost is in the energy rating component of the house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not suggesting reducing that is an option. My point is that in the past we were not putting those bigger societal costs on individuals when they purchased a home. They had much lower-spec homes. Now when purchasing a home, they are purchasing their own home but they are also paying a higher price as a result of meeting these greater societal demands for climate action, which we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I remember one development plan meeting where we talked about standards. Someone said we could pass a law in the morning saying everybody should have €500 shoes but nobody would have any shoes. We are in a very difficult area where it is now so expensive just to construct housing that affordability is always going to be a factor in that environment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The point is that it has a cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Private developers are able to have a lower all-in cost than local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: To continue that line of questioning, will that also include Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt that somebody who sat in an ambulance for those first few weeks of the pandemic, with Covid-positive patients, were at the front line and were immediately impacted by the virus. They are paid by a public body, Dublin City Council, and to my mind there should be no question but that there should be an immediate payment. When Mr. Mulvany said "Minister", was he referring...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I now know which of my colleagues to collar so I appreciate that. On the broader issue of section 38 and section 39 organisations, the Comptroller and Auditor General carried out a review of governance in 2016 and the financial implications around their structure. Does the HSE believe it has the correct value for money from section 38s and section 39s?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My concern is that more than €5 billion is going into the sector, admittedly across a whole range of spectrums. For intellectual disabilities in particular, and in the Cork area specifically, it essentially came to a situation where those people in receipt of HSE funding were not able to accommodate children with special needs. The education and training board, ETB, stepped in and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is an increasing demand for the public provision of services. That is very clear when there is a private operator but sometimes, when there is a voluntary operator, that same call is not made. It is a policy issue maybe rather than a matter for Mr. Mulvany. I sometimes feel we do not subject section 39s to the same level of scrutiny regarding value for money. I ask for a note from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Those are very fair comments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept interagency is easier said and done. I understand that. I will turn to the matter of the National Ambulance Service. Can the HSE confirm how many posts are vacant at present?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Some of the anecdotal evidence I am hearing from people is that the potential for staff to be allocated anywhere in the country is one of the major challenges. Parts of the country have persistent vacancies, while in other places demand might be oversubscribed. Has the NAS considered direct recruitment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The NAS was probably based on a model similar to An Garda Síochána, where members are centrally trained and then distributed around the country, but we are in a very different employment market. On the role of the NAS, there are other private operators it is competing with as a potential employer. That degree of flexibility is very important. I am jumping around here; I often...