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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: What is the total expenditure in respect of non-compliant procurement?

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 44% below that figure.

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 44% of the HSE procurement was not within the scope of the assessment, in that it would have been below that €20,000 threshold.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think Deputy Murphy is right on the NTA. As it has grown it is having a greater impact. Its representatives were in before with regard to the capital projects that were taking place. These are incredibly significant. This week both the BusConnects and metro projects for my area are being published in tandem. It would be useful to have the NTA in again. The area I would like us to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think the Secretary General is being helpful in trying to ensure he has one appearance at the committee but the Committee of Public Accounts has determined that he may have more than one and we should go with our own view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I wish to continue on that. The reason members might focus on that is because many of the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality were about tackling issues where gender made a significant difference. There is no doubt that women suffer domestic violence far more than man. That is not to say that men do not experience violence; of course they do. If we are to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. In the broader submission in which the domestic violence references were made, there was a broader view - complaint is probably too hard a word – by IBEC that there should be a delay or staggering. There was a public conference held earlier in the year in which the same comments were uttered; in other words, IBEC was suggesting that we should stagger or delay this flexible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think Ms O’Hare is focusing on the wrong element of it. My suggestion was that IBEC is suggesting that the Government was introducing too much paid leave, citing the extension of parental leave, the introduction of statutory sick pay and the domestic violence legislation. It is a broader tone here; it is not just on the issue of domestic violence. It is a broader tone that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept there are challenges. The question is to which aspect IBEC is opposed. Is it opposed to statutory paid sick leave?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. I do not have time for a final question but I make the point that, equally, one cannot ignore how businesses have benefited from or taken advantage of the gender pay gap over many years. Both items have to be put on the balance sheet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What about the extension of parental leave?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: At the weekend, Jim Gavin, the chairman of the Dublin Citizens' Assembly, indicated that he might have his report ready earlier than expected. It appears he is as good in the chair as he is on the field, although I am not sure anybody would be up for five citizens' assemblies in a row. Does the early delivery of that report give us the opportunity to establish a citizens' assembly on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (5 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide additional after-school child places in the Dublin 11 area, particularly in Finglas and Glasnevin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49094/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The Opposition Members who have spoken so far have called for considered debate and claimed nothing has changed in the past year. Those accusations were made by people who are no longer in the Chamber. These are not tropes that should be thrown back and forth but it seems to be what is happening. This issue is too serious for that and we need to consider it more holistically. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 616. To ask the Minister for Health when the 1% increase due since October 2021 to retired HSE employees under the sustaining progress agreement will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48093/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We are dealing with issues surrounding water quality and supply. From the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, we are joined by Dr. Tom Ryan, Mr. Noel Byrne, Ms Mary Gurrie and Dr. Michelle Minihan. From the HSE, we are joined by Ms Ann Marie Part, Dr. Deirdre Mulholland and Ms Deirdre Lavin. The opening statements have been circulated to members. I will begin with a note on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Ms Part and Dr. Ryan. We move on to members' questions. Members are expected to confine their questions to the witnesses to seven minutes in total. The member may make a statement or ask a question and allow the remaining time for responses by the witnesses. The member can decide who to direct questions to. The first speaker is Deputy Flaherty from Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Gould will ably represent you. I call Senator Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There are just two minutes left in the Deputy's slot.