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Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I suggest that we do not treat the witness as normal, particularly as we are usually quite robust with our witnesses. Mr. McMahon is raising genuine concerns and he is presenting his view on the matter we are here to discuss. It is up to us to then question the agencies on it. I do not believe us questioning Mr. McMahon in a robust way is the way to deal with a whistleblower or somebody...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. McMahon for raising this. The definition of self-employment has been an issue on these islands going back to 1860. Undoubtedly, there are contracts for service which should be contracts of service. In some cases that suits a worker who should be a direct employee because they perceive an incentive where they might pay less tax in the short term, but what they are doing is...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The option to go all the way through the entire court system is open but the difficulty is that it is prohibitive and the bar of access is too high.

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Revenue define what is a direct employee to employers on its website? If one goes through them, some employees, particularly couriers, fall into the category of direct employees. They do not control how, when or where they do their work, they supply labour only, they are paid in fixed hourly rates, they cannot subcontract out their work, they do not supply materials etc. It appears...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Should the code of practice be amended to recognise what has happened in the UK courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: For full transparency, I wish to state that I use both of the products being discussed and have paid for political advertising, as, I am sure, have many politicians. The Bill seeks to regulate political activity during election periods. My first question is for Mr. Ó Broin in particular as Facebook permits political advertising. Does it believe that a year-round system would be more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will rephrase the question. Through micro-targeting and spending on advertising pre-election, it is possible to create custom audiences within Facebook which then can be used during the election period. As such, in reality, unlike other media such as print advertising or radio advertising which have their benefits immediately during the campaign, online advertising offers a different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I take it from the submission provided by Mr. Ó Broin's that the preference of Facebook would be for year-round regulation. My argument is that it would strengthen the Bill if the regulation were year-round because of the nature of it. Mr. Ó Broin raised concerns regarding privacy, the collection of data and the engagement of the commission with Facebook rather than it being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: If someone competes in the public space in a political campaign, surely people have the right to know who is behind those campaigns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Dualta Ó Broin accept that we seem to have different rules for different media? This Bill permits providing online political advertising to a content provider, which clearly states it is not in the news space, yet we ban political advertising on radio stations, which are often very good-quality local and authoritative sources of news. I believe there is a discrepancy there....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: We have had a good discussion around paid political advertising. I have one remaining question. European regulation of online political advertising would provide harmonisation, and I can see why multinational companies would rather have that framework than a different framework in each country, for operational reasons alone. The difficulty is that different countries allow different levels...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: It is also in a way that permits trolling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: There is the opportunity-----

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to reflect on a number of issues that were raised in the earlier part of the debate. One was the decision by the Oireachtas housing committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny. As Vice Chairman of that committee, I want to put on record the reason for that is that we wanted to ensure the maximum number of Deputies in the House had the maximum amount of time to debate the Bill in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I would have Deputy Richmond out canvassing for me but I do not think we would be compatible. The programme for Government refers to investing in our communities. We have seen how community has been such an important part of the response to the Covid pandemic. One group of workers have led our communities for many years and they are community employment, CE, supervisors. The Government...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Can I raise a point of order, please, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle? I apologise for interrupting. There may have been an error yesterday, in that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle mistook Deputy Richmond for myself in the queue.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree with the Deputy. Deputy Andrews will confirm that it was in fact myself that stood between him and Deputy Gould.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The Acting Chairman might remind me of the time available to me.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I have been at a committee meeting so I apologise if I ask the Minister questions that have been asked. First, I raise the issue of the non-referral test centres. They are a very important step forward, particularly for those people in education about whom we all have many concerns. As of 11 o'clock this morning, any teacher, pupil or parent in our area who has a concern and needs to...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I so move.