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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the discussions that have been had with the Defence Forces with regard to the use of Cathal Brugha barracks for housing. [13296/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to deal with that issue under amendment No. 49 also, as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan has raised it. The point raised by the Minister of State and Deputy Ó Broin is about the balance that needs to be struck here. The difficulty is that we are dealing with such a broad range of suppliers, from very small operators and specialist operators right up to larger providers. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: And for the installation of heat pumps.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I just came from a fantastic International Women's Day event in Finglas this morning. As a member of the gender equality committee to deal with the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly, I want to ask the Government whether it intends to hold a referendum on the issue of a woman's place in society and how we might reflect caring in our Constitution, in addition to addressing many of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The past hour or so has been incredibly useful. Adding all the various policy tools that have been outlined, including the URDF and Town Centre First and so on, I take my perspective from the towns and villages in my community. Many are what might be called urban villages. I am thinking of areas like Finglas and towns like Ballymun. They could be replicated in places like Raheny and new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: We can look at the examples of applications for any of the villages. There are great schemes relating to empty buildings in the centre of rural towns that are being used as community hubs or for other purposes. I could talk about empty pubs in Finglas village and derelict sites in Ballymun or Santry. Those urban villages all have the same needs and I would argue that they all have the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the principal vehicle for those urban villages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would like to come back to an area that may have been covered earlier. I apologise if it was because, like Deputy O'Reilly, I was in the Chamber. I refer to compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. Local authorities have spent millions on what could be described as the unsuccessful pursuit of properties. In many cases, it is not as much the availability of resources as the chilling effect a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is the issue of the first phase of the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, and the second phase. The only project to benefit from the URDF in my constituency was €37,000 for a feasibility study on the Dunsink lands. Some of my colleagues asked me if it was €40 million, and I said it was just €37,000. That was a case of the local authority using money to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is welcome but there are three caveats I would put on it. First, it is a very complicated site that has a large population of the Traveller community who would need to be consulted. Second, there have long been promises that the site would be for sports and recreation facilities. Third, Fingal County Council has a long history of building large unsupported residential developments on...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps I was too timid. I had four minutes at the end of Deputy Carroll MacNeill's contribution and I should have spoken up then. I promise that only two and half minutes were unused, so I do not think I will be wasting the House's time. As a member of this committee, I welcome the publication of this report. I commend Senator Flynn on the work she has done. Her election as our Chair...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Ms Deering for her statement and the Comptroller and Auditor General for his reports. I do not want to paraphrase what Ms Deering said, but I will focus on one line where she said the HBFI identified gaps in the existing fund available to creditors and did so in an efficient and rigorous way. I am thinking back to the development of the HBFI. In many ways, many of the new policy...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to focus on the HBFI's move away from focusing on that idea of small to medium sized towards the momentum fund, which I will discuss. Does Ms Deering regard that as mission creep or as identifying another gap in the market?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I will come back to that. Clearly, the HBFI has not seen the success in drawdowns for those smaller projects that it might have. Of almost €395 million approved facilities, the drawdown has just been approximately €37 million, which is 10%. I am trying to get to the bottom of why that is happening in the market so I can understand it from a policy perspective. I can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: As the HBFI heads into year three, was 10% of total approvals a target it hoped to exceed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Unfortunately, I am all too aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My question was, if the HBFI was starting on day one of the facility, would it have seen a 10% drawdown as a failure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Let us try to dig down into some of the reasons for the figure. Are people as ready as they could be when they come to the HBFI? For example, does planning permission need to be in place in advance of applications being made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: This is to help me in my work on the housing committee as much as anything else. We are speaking in very general terms. I am trying to get to the bottom of what those delays in drawdown are. I accept that Covid was an issue, although less so on the social housing side, and I hear what Ms Deering is saying about issues in legal transfers and so on. Have the witnesses examined why they have...