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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My view is similar. We need to seek responses on the media reports.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is the first action. The second item is we need to mark our intention to have a meeting on this matter on 24 March or another date that we set. We can discuss that within the work programme while we are in private session. We need to indicate at this point that we intend to have a hearing on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think that at this point we are indicating we will hold a hearing. Next week, we will decide on the date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Following directly on Deputies Carthy and Murphy, there is very significant public concern about the issues raised in that newspaper article and these are at the core of what the Committee of Public Accounts is about. I fully accept the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General that there is no perceived loss of money at this point, although he reserves the right to examine that....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the suggestions made but there is also a role here for the Department of Education. I have discussed this matter with my colleague Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. We all have this in our own areas. Children are being transported because there are not autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes or units in a locality. Alternatively, there may be a mismatch between the placement of children...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It does not speak to a specific point in the letter and that is because I do not believe the letter addresses the specific point I raised regarding geo-tagging content in the North of Ireland where it is not possible for people to access certain content through the RTÉ Player. This can often include really important cultural events like GAA matches and entertainment content. Justin...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Certain content is not available in the Six Counties because of rights issues. RTÉ needs to do more to get to the bottom of finding ways of making that happen. More importantly, I raised it in the session and it is not addressed in the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Doyle stay on that point? That is interesting because I saw the announcement of additional new staff throughout the country, but I did not see an announcement for Dublin.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Where is the delay on that? Is that from the Department's side?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Knowledge of the toolbox in one thing, but we also need local authorities to have ambition. Since they have spent so much time not being in this space I can appreciate where their ambition might be limited, but the Department's role is to set that ambition. Do the officials believe there is the willingness in local authorities to develop affordable purchase in particular, which is a new...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is important in increasing overall supply, but it also makes a massive difference in communities. I spoke about this at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Ballymun has more than 70% low-income social housing, which we know is not good for that community and the people who live there. Providing affordable purchase, not just for people who are in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the witnesses. I am also a member of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, so I have an appreciation of the full range and depth of the Department. The short title, Department of housing, does not do service to any of the other sectors and the significant funding in those areas. As my questions are on various topics, Mr. Graham can feel free to divert me...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been an increase in staffing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I understand that a new affordable housing unit has been established within the Department. Will Mr. Graham comment on the work it is doing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My fear is that the work will be done in here, the legislation will be passed and with the Department but the toolbox that which will be available to local authorities in particular but also the AHBs and so on, will not be widely understood or known. There are many vacant and derelict sites in my constituency. The Drake Inn site has been lying vacant for 15 years. Any one of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to deal with gangland crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8713/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will not require seven minutes. I apologise that I was delayed at a meeting of the Committee on Public Accounts next door. I have not quite mastered the ability to be omnipresent in both meetings. Zoom gave me the option to do that for a while, but it is not possible physically. I thank the witnesses for the detail in the submissions that have been made. It really assists the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The real work often happens in the private sessions of the committee when we are haggling back and forth over the wording of the pre-legislative scrutiny reports. I promise Ms Teehan all of what she has submitted will form part of that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have one further question. There was some concern about combining heritage and planning in one Department and conflicts arising from that. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan ,has done fantastic work in that area. We are a year and a half into that process. Have the witnesses any observations on combining the planning and the heritage responsibilities in the Department? These...