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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: -----RTÉ discontinued DAB, but it continued the radio stations, let us call them, although neither of those terms seems correct in the context of a digital format. The stations included RTÉ Gold, RTÉ 2XM and so on. Is there a significant cost implication in maintaining those stations?

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: Having led Ms Forbes up that path, let me now be more critical. One of my greatest criticisms of RTÉ is its complete lack of any sort of effective regional radio or television coverage for the Dublin market. The BBC managed to maintain two local radio stations on this island. RTÉ does not do that for the main capital city. Given that Ms Forbes has provided details around...

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: My understanding is that would not prevent RTÉ from providing online Dublin-specific radio or news coverage.

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 can hear Ms Forbes trying to articulate a good answer, but the reason she that cannot do so is because there is not a good product for the Dublin market. John Kilrane is a fantastic reporter, but he is one man. We have 1 million eyeballs in Dublin. The national broadcaster is seriously letting us down by not providing more Dublin-focused content.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not sure if I have heard the Chairman's suggestion fully but it would be incumbent on the committee, having received the information, to also ask the Minister for Justice for an update. Every group of workers is fully entitled to take industrial action. I do not believe there is anything that we would like to do to undermine the workers' rights to take industrial action, but it is my...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I was monitoring the meeting by television because I am attending the housing committee at the same time. I am omnipresent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The article outlines an argument that the site may have been bought for more than the advertised value. The site is proposed to be used for the expansion of Beaumont Hospital. I have a few concerns around it. I would like the HSE to respond to the suggestions made in the article, and to the concern that public money was allocated to the purchase of a site which might in all likelihood be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome Mr. Coleman and Mr. O'Rourke. I think this is the first time they have been before the committee since the Land Development Agency Act was passed. It is significant legislation and many members of this committee and Deputies in the Dáil voted against it because they did not want the LDA to be a delivery mechanism. That is a policy difference. We are now in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that. I was not setting a trap but seeking to have on the record the fact that it was an open competition process. It is important for people to know that. One of the benefits of having someone of Mr. O'Rourke's experience is his strong background. However, the chairperson role is not exclusive and he will also have other interests. How does he intend to ensure there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. O'Rourke. This is not to cast any aspersions, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: -----it is important. Some points were made during the debate and some statements were also made by the Minister. I would appreciate if those types of principles could be recommitted to here by Mr. O'Rourke and Mr. Coleman. The Minister said that in places like Dublin and Cork that land developed by the LDA, and this would differ slightly from local authority land, would be 100% used for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. O'Rourke comment on a possible forced transfer of land from local authorities to the LDA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What Mr. O'Rourke has said is the policy of the board. Is that in line with how Mr. Coleman, as the chief executive, will be implementing these aspects in the LDA's operations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will let Senator Fitzpatrick go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I very much appreciate the answers given in the previous round despite the questions coming in rapid fire to both Mr. Coleman and Mr. O'Rourke. Like Senator Fitzpatrick, I was looking at what is happening in my constituency but there is nothing on the current list. That is, in part, because much of the public land is owned by the local authority and will be developed by it. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can I clarify Mr. O’Rourke's answer? He said he could not give the information until we knew the cost of the cost-rental apartments. It would be preposterous to suggest that we could give an indication in advance of the costs being known.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: One of the fundamental tenets of a cost-rental system is that the original costs of constructing the units over the lifetime of the project are used to calculate the rent, including maintenance, sinking fund for repairs and so on. I do not agree with this idea of identifying the rent in advance of the LDA knowing the cost of constructing it. Deputy Boyd Barrett is not actually making the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. I thank the Chair.