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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: This legislation is quite significant. Many Deputies will have spoken in the Chamber on the importance of this legislation, and how it effectively gives back to the local authorities by making them the first port of call for planning applications. The strategic housing development, SHD, process deprived local communities of the opportunity to contribute to the planning process and gave them...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I have a lot of sympathy with the points made, particularly around ensuring the primacy of the development plan and the issues around height being a national strategy. In my locality, areas we want to see developed for height and are identified for height have not seen that investment but areas where the city would not have preferred that height because it wanted to concentrate it in a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not sure why my amendment was not linked with this group but it touches on many of the same issues. I take the Minister at his word that he will look at what he can do on this issue, perhaps on Report Stage. If that allows us to progress to the next section and in the meantime reserve judgment to see what comes back on Report Stage then I would look forward to that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 33: In page 9, to delete lines 16 to 20 and substitute the following: “ “(1B) Where a planning authority receives an application for permission to which section 32A(1) applies it shall— (a) notify the elected members of the planning authority of the making of the application, of where the application is available for inspection, and of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendment No. 52 seeks a small change to the Title of the Bill. I believed the amendment might entitle me to speak first. It outlines exactly what the Minister refers to in respect of restoring the power to local authorities. It proposes a small cosmetic change.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Is the Minister encouraging me to press my amendment or suggesting that it be left at that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that the Minister will consider the matter for Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I would be far more confident in the Minister delivering for me than Deputy Ó Broin, if he were Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 44: In page 16, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Insertion of section 247A into Principal Act 16.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 247: "247A.(1) The planning authority shall convene a final consultation meeting within 4 weeks of receipt of the prospective applicant’s request, to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 52: In page 3, line 10, after “strategies” to insert the following: “to make provision for local government participation in assessing Large-scale Residential Development”.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 645. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the early intervention appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58816/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: This is an important day for the many people who come to our clinics because often they are on two sides of the development coin. On one side are the many people who are looking for and who need housing, often in very difficult circumstances, and on the other side are communities concerned about the impact of planning and development on their area. The solution for one side is met by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the update from the Minister of State. It will help to continue to inform the implementation of the report. It does not, however, significantly increase the resources available to the community. I welcome, however, the Government's commitment to implementing this report on Ballymun. It is crucial that communities see reports like this being implemented rather than just being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in the Ballymun Garda district as of 1 November 2021 or the latest date available; the number in the 12 months previously; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57943/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Earlier this year, Dublin City Council published a report, titled Ballymun - A Brighter Future, which outlined the impact of the drugs industry on that community. Core to that report were actions which we believe many agencies, including An Garda Síochána, need to take. The resources An Garda Síochána has are crucial to the successful implementation of that report. Will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State's commitment to this issue along with that of his ministerial colleague. Deployment is a matter for the Garda Commissioner but, on his appointment, he said that crime is not like rain in that it does not fall evenly everywhere. It was therefore very surprising when we discovered, through the report, Ballymun - A Brighter Future, that the Dublin northern...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will continue the line of questioning raised by Deputy Dillon on media. The pandemic has been a huge pressure point for all media outlets but has also displayed the huge role good quality public and private media organisations play and the way they helped communicate the messages during the pandemic. Deputy Dillon spoke about local newspapers and radio stations but, unfortunately, in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: It is interesting that Ms Licken raises the Future of Media Commission because there has been a lot of discussion about online platforms. Unfortunately, Facebook forums have become the predominant forum for local community news. The difficulty with that is that it carries with it all the threats that social media bring while at the same time giving local communities really good forums....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sometimes our rural colleagues here in the Houses of the Oireachtas are much better at working together on these issues. Sometimes in Dublin we are a little shy about shouting for the capital. On this issue, however, we need to work very closely together with the Department and the Government. The pandemic had a significant impact on sports capital grants, and I know there was an...