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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I have heard the Minister of State's contribution here and heard the Minister's yesterday. I welcome that she will meet with a number of Fianna Fáil backbench Deputies about this because we are greatly concerned about it. My local employment service, as with many across the country, issued a press release last week stating that the Government was implementing a for-profit model that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: This year, there will be two important developments for the jobs club networks and local employment service networks across the country. One is that we will have an extension of the services to those areas that are not currently covered, which I welcome. We have strong local employment services in our area and we greatly value the contribution they make. I can imagine the gap they would...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the ten-year rule for taxi drivers in view of the severe impact that Covid-19 has had on the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32403/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Only 90 minutes in this session remain. Could we get through the amendments more quickly if we remained in the committee room? I cannot see a reason for us not to do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister suggesting that he will seek to address it on Report Stage. I want to progress the Bill but it is very clear that the Opposition wants to ensure that this is purely a land amalgamation agency, whereas the Government wants to ensure this is an agency that builds affordable homes for people. The Minister has already said that in places like Dublin, the 20% Part V...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 204: In page 46, line 7, to delete “50 per cent” and substitute “80 per cent”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 209: In page 46, line 11, to delete “50 per cent” and substitute “80 per cent”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 222: In page 48, line 7, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 223: In page 48, line 25, after “housing” to insert the following: “, including the affordable land value of relevant public lands in the geographic or administrative area”.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (16 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding multisystemic therapy for an organisation (details supplied). [32310/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (16 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding additional posts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32311/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (16 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider an amendment to the Technological Universities Act 2018 for section 12(j) to be amended to increase the number of education and training board nominees onto each technological university’s governing body from one to three nominees. [32312/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (16 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider additional resources to allow an expansion of the Strive programme in Ballymun to allow more offenders to be included; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32308/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister for bringing forward his amendment, which agrees with my own. It was the intention to cover elected members in this case, and both the Minister's commitment here, and our amendment, state that. Therefore, I welcome the Minister's amendment today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move amendment No. 188 which relates to section 183 of the Local Government Act and provides that disposals would be approved by local authority members. There is a view that local authorities are delaying the delivery of social and affordable housing. Prior to the publication of the Affordable Housing Bill and this Bill, it could have been argued that it was not possible for local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister for taking on board my views, those of Deputy Higgins and other members of the committee who have raised this issue, and those of members of our party who are not members of the committee. Everyone is trying to approach this matter from the positive perspective of building homes. It is about finding the balance we spoke about. I will not pursue my amendment on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry Chairman, but I had my hand raised.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I return to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's point. I ask the Minister to specifically clarify it in his reply because the Deputy made a statement of what he believed to be in the Bill and then a conclusion. His belief is that when land is transferred to a private owner that it will then be sold for open-market sale or for speculation and so on. It is very clear in this Bill that regardless of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I wish to speak on the amendments that seek to remove the term "market value". I can understand the desire to do this if the reason it is included in the Bill is not understood. We go back to the discussion we had in the first session. Effectively, the LDA is a mechanism that allows for the transfer of land at a nominal cost, so that when homes are built they do not include a significant...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: In many ways, we are having an academic discussion on what might happen in future. We know that the Valuation Office will be involved in pricing this land. Perhaps, in advance of Report Stage, that office could make clear the basis of the valuation, which would show Deputies Ó Broin and Cian O'Callaghan, me and other members of the committee what is likely to happen. We will not then...