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Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I confirm I am in the precincts of Leinster House. I thank the witnesses for attending today. To follow on from Deputy Verona Murphy's point on Waterford, it is very clear there are now three institutions with long-term deficits. How does the HEA intend to address that, particularly in relation to the intention to establish a long-term funding model for higher education? Are there...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: There is not a commonality across three institutions or anything regarding strictly numbers of students.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: There are specific reasons for each them.

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I take that on board. My next question relates to the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the non-compliance, procurement and governance of it. Has the new Department put in place any new oversight measures for the HEA in regard to procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: My final question relates less to finances and more to governance, although it has an impact on finances. The new technological universities have a reduced level of representation compared with that of the traditional ETB sector. What is the rationale for that? There has been some disquiet within the ETB sector that its traditionally strong representation on some of those governance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional education facilities at both primary and post primary level in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35329/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills status of the new permanent build for a college (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for the school meals programme over the summer and the extension of the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the pay policy for protected employment in the Office of Public Works increases in line with other public sector pay increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35603/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank everyone for being with us here today. It is important to hear their views. I was absent for some of the previous committee meetings because we have been passing the Land Development Agency, LDA, Bill. There were votes at Report and Final Stages on that, which were completed last night. My question focuses on that because the Bill and the unlocking of the public land bank for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry to cut off Mr. O'Connor. I am conscious of the time. The proposals that came forward last night were really significant because in Dublin and Cork they allow for 100% affordable and social housing on public land. That means that all the traditional biases, which are unjustified, surrounding the provision of Traveller accommodation within an overall development, how it might...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I believe the Bill has sufficient compulsory purchase order, CPO, powers to allow the LDA to deliver the homes we have spoken about in previous phases of this discussion. As the Minister said, there is a fundamental difference here between what the Government wants to do by establishing a LDA that builds and develops homes and the Opposition, which wants to put together an agency that...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Vote for the Bill then. If you do not want to change the Bill then vote for the Bill.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I wish to speak against this group of amendments. There is a fundamental difference between the Opposition and the Government in how we want to deliver homes and what we want the LDA to do. It is clear from Committee Stage that those in opposition want it to be a land amalgamation agency and local authorities to then construct homes on that land. The Government wants all parts of the State...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a press release (details supplied); if the information is correct; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35231/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Chair and committee for allowing me to be here. The Minister is bringing forward important legislation. It is trying to include as much reform as is possible in one piece of legislation. The area in which I have a particular interest is the issue of scrambler bikes. I thank everybody who has been involved in campaigning on this issue, primarily the communities throughout the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I know my time is up, Chair, but I would indicate that the Private Members’ Bill before the committee in my name and that of Deputy Lahart deals largely with the issues the Minister has raised. I indicate that at this early stage, in case it helps the committee with its work programme. When the legislation comes forward, it may be a matter of withdrawing it at that stage.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of special school places in Dublin 9 in which no places currently exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34238/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of special school places in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of improved pay and conditions for school caretakers and secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34582/21]