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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
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Has consideration ever been given to having a rolling sports capital application process? I have dealt with many clubs this year, as in previous years, and one of the difficulties is that their planning or their fundraising targets might not be reached within the window of the application process or thereafter. I have often considered that a rolling application process might be far more agile.

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: That frequency is very important, and Mr. Ó Lionáin makes a really important point that the absence of the regular awarding of grants and the fact that it does not happen on a rolling basis is a major flaw in the system. On the issue of the support that clubs received during the pandemic, from my experience, sports clubs were divided into two groups: those that perhaps had large...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in the Blanchardstown 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. [57944/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (23 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her progress to date in expanding the provision of post-primary education in Santry and Whitehall, Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (23 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her progress to date in expanding the provision of primary education in Santry and Whitehall, Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (23 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend and increase the midnight service times for the Nitelink bus service in Dublin in view of the recent announcement of hospitality closure at midnight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57358/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pensions Reform (17 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 27 July 2021, when he expects the statutory instruments to be signed for a pension scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56475/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [55894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (16 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new Dunleer fire station in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (16 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 588. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assessment of need for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55807/21]

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sometimes in this Chamber we face deep levels of frustration and I wonder whether we are making any progress on the issues before us. Today is not one of those days. While this is a very wide-ranging Bill that in many ways will help us meet some of our key climate action targets, I want to focus on the amendments relating to scrambler bikes. The term Teachta Dála, messenger of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: If Miriam Lord is to be believed, the Minister was once involved in a bribery allegation involving His Holiness the Pope, a family member and a puppy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I raise with him the issue of animal welfare. Yesterday, the DSPCA said we need to do far more on the issue of exporting puppies bred on puppy farms. Representatives of the North Dublin Cat Rescue have told me that we need to do far more to support voluntary organisations spaying feral cats. Will the Minister raise these matters with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, as I also...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Spratt and all those attending today. I will start with the easy questions, including with regard to the metro. I am sure the witnesses are very familiar with the greater Dublin transport strategy in draft format that was presented this week. I have read it and been briefed on it by the National Transport Authority and I know the headlines that indicate the metro has been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: My question was whether the business case that Mr. Spratt will put to the Government will be included in a timeline. This is because the NTA appears to have no timeline applied to the project. I do not know if that is because it is afraid to be bound by timelines that it project, or if there are no timelines at all. However, from transparency and public spending perspectives, surely...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The difficulty with that is that the NTA has consistently missed timelines in advance of the first gate. In 2018, there was the emerging preferred route. It was indicated in 2018 that the railway procurement order would be applied for in 2019. That did not happen. The question that many people are asking is why the NTA missed that key date of applying for the railway procurement order in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Before we move on. Mr. Spratt says that the date he has now is the best. Honestly, after the NTA briefing, many public representatives are scratching their heads wondering if there are any dates. We have not been given any dates. The only date that has been given is that the project will go to a railway order in the early quarter of 2022. That is welcome. Other than that, we have no...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Was the 2018 delivery schedule inaccurate. The schedule that I just read out that was in the NTA announcement in 2018 was part of the national development plan. Was that inaccurate? Was it underfunded? Why have those dates been missed? This goes to the heart of confidence in this project. If we are missing deadlines now, when we have not even passed gate 1, there are real concerns. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that Chair, but it is clear that answers also need to come from the NTA. I would ask that we revisit our request that the NTA come before the Committee of Public Accounts, because the Department of Transport is obviously operating this from a procurement side. We need the operational issues from the NTA and TII before us.