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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The point is there will always be those fringe areas, no matter what happens - Garda divisions or whatever. What can the Department structurally put into the review to make sure those fringe issues are addressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have abused my position as Vice Chair by allowing Ms Graham to go on for longer. Did Deputy Flaherty want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will add one question, which might save time in the context of coming back twice. I will make one suggestion - in order to save it being made when it comes to introducing amendments - regarding to the issue of notification of those on adjoining sites. We have lots of complicated streetscapes in many of our cities. People could have a planning application with a notice in their garden,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: While I do not expect Ms Graham to respond, she might take on board the matter of the proposed notification of adjoining sites.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is a small amendment that would save a lot of heartache.

Urban Regeneration Report: Motion (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I like Deputy Bacik's phrase that this goes beyond housing, because too much of the debate on vacancy and dereliction focuses on our immediate need in terms of supply. I heard Deputy Gould suggest that we could tackle the entire housing crisis if we tackled dereliction alone. Of course we know that is not true. We need significant numbers of new builds and we need new supply. That is not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Kevin McCarthy and all his team for being here today. When I looked at today's pack, I thought there was nearly enough here for two meetings, but I am sure he would not even like me to joke about that. The Department certainly covers a wide range of activities and it has increased. It has had responsibility for the international protection service for some time and the level of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: As members of the Committee of Public Accounts, we would want Mr. McCarthy to take a stronger position than saying the Department wants to get to compliant procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sure the Comptroller and Auditor General would have a similar view.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. McCarthy mentioned the international protection service. It is commonly viewed that direct provision is not the best the way to continue. Many people have asked when direct provision will end.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We have two and a half years left to achieve that target. Does Mr. McCarthy believe there is a significant risk of that being missed or does he believe it can be achieved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: If Mr. McCarthy does not mind me saying so, when officials use terms such as "challenging target" and "ambitious", I am hearing that they will not meet it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Are the resources in place to help the Department achieve it? Obviously, we understand that external factors can change. However, is everything in place that allows the Department to reach that with all the internal controls it has?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That has been the challenge with direct provision since its inception. We need to get to a position where we stop using it as a tool. Of course, it will be there as a short-term measure, but for long-term stays, direct provision is unacceptable and the Government and specifically the Department need to stop using it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would certainly appreciate all the work that Mr. McCarthy and his officials can do to achieve that. I turn to the ECCE scheme. In some ways it could be extended to family support centres. When the wage subsidy scheme was in operation the level of funding that was going into the childcare sector was incredibly significant. We have a large number of very small operators, many of them...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The difficulty is that many providers of ECCE have had to take out loans in their own name to provide the building, yet in the breakdown of costs they receive per child, per use and so on - it is highly regulated, almost by the hour - that capital responsibility does not appear to be reflected in the fee being paid to the provider.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am glad Mr. McCarthy mentioned that funding because I hope we will start to see in the autumn the delivery of service connected with that. It is a very significant increase in funding and I have to accept that the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is doing a fantastic job in allocating that and driving that agenda. It shows, however, that the only logical way forward is for us to move towards a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanism by which his Department will review progress made in implementing the programme for Government. [26195/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the leaders of the parties in Northern Ireland following the Stormont elections. [26194/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 66 and 67 in some ways have been subvented the Government's amendments. Amendment No. 66 is perhaps a simplified way of trying to address the issue of cryptocurrencies. It is very difficult to define a cryptocurrency. The easiest way I could find to do it was to limit it to the two currencies that are operational on the island of Ireland. That being said, I think the...