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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. Many other representatives have spoken about the importance of urban regeneration and its complexity with multiple stakeholders and so on but here we have a town that was long promised regeneration. All the tools are on the table. There is a single local authority and a single housing authority and all of it remains in public housing. If we cannot deliver urban regeneration...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: There needs to be a recommendation in the report that there should be greater transparency around the targets and places. While overall targets can be met, we are talking about communities and towns. These are places that need that regeneration, rather than targets being met elsewhere. I take Ms Graham's point. Moving on to private sites, I turn to another area in my constituency, which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Will urban towns in Dublin be able to access Croí Cónaithe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I return to my previous question. When will private owners be able to apply for Croí Cónaithe, towns or cities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Lastly, we have a very welcome development where an old, historical building, Ashgrove House in Finglas, is now being used for social housing. There was no policy instrument required there, just the ambition of a great AHB. What are we doing to ensure that AHBs identify these sites, purchase them and turn them into social housing, using all the existing instruments available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Again, I believe we have to monitor the ambition in that area as much as the delivery. Targets are no good if we do not meet them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: First, I must apologise to the other witnesses with whom I have not engaged today. I very much appreciate the submissions they have made and have no doubt that this committee will try to include as many as possible in its final report. I am using my time to question the Department but perhaps if we had more modules, we might have been able to call witnesses to separate meetings. I wish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry to interrupt but is Mr. Hogan saying that this will be available to both new communities and existing communities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is part of a much bigger debate and is very welcome. There has been some discussion of CPOs and enhanced CPOs. When will that full range of policy tools be available to local authorities? There is a lot of concern about reticence at local authority level, which is based on experience. They have spent millions of euro on CPOs that have not delivered anything. What can we do to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Is Deputy Verona Murphy ahead of me?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Let me move to restate the comments made by Deputy Hourigan. I and my party are significantly supportive of the idea of a publicly funded broadcaster. Throughout the pandemic in particular, we have seen key programmes on RTÉ like “Morning Ireland” and “The Late Late Show” which have been crucial in communicating important public health messages, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Is there a total figure for the DAB trial?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that if RTÉ was not to be an early adopter of technology, it would also be a bad thing. However, it is important that we know what it costs. What lessons might be learned or savings might be taken for other formats other than IP? Do we know how many listeners to RTÉ radio and television programmes now use smart speakers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: That relates to streamed content.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There is also an increasing use of RTÉ's content on social media platforms, such as Facebook and so on. Some of that is done by RTÉ, which broadcasts it for free on its accounts. Has there been any attempt to seek to gain benefits from the social media companies for the revenue that they are claiming by using content provided by RTÉ?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I am thinking of the agreement between publishers in Australia and social media platforms regarding content. Much of the quality content on social media is content that has been paid for by the taxpayer through the licence fee. However, we are not gaining the advertising benefit from that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Can I be more specific? Is Ms Forbes saying that RTÉ has opened discussions with a number of social media companies to seek a commercial arrangement for the use of its content on their platforms?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Would Facebook be included in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason why RTÉ has not approached the largest social media platform?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Let me move-----