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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will address the legislation before us because we have spent much of the morning debating council decisions, which relate to previous policies. This Bill is about a new Government putting in place new policies to set a new direction in housing. There are two elements to those policies - the Minister rightly spoke about the Affordable Housing Bill, and the second is this Bill. Deputy...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the bona fides of Deputy Boyd Barret's contribution but I wish to clarify what I just said because the Deputy is conflating the term "affordability" in two different Bills. Affordability is set out in the Affordable Housing Bill to allow councils to build homes on public land and the LDA will do the same. That is dealt with in the Affordable Housing Bill. In this Bill, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the funding for mental health supports for third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26982/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the rate of students in areas of high deprivation going onto third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26983/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the demand for the skills to advance the programme for the hospitality sector; his plans to advance a similar project for those in the retail sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26962/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on funding for the further education and training sector under the current National Development Plan, part of Project Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26963/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the parties being here today. We invited them to see if the electoral reform Bill was ambitious enough and it is fair to say the new electoral commission, for which we have been waiting nearly 30 years, has a lot of work to do, based on the discussions we have had. I benefit from the questions my colleagues have already asked so I will focus on certain areas. It appears from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: In answer to Deputy Higgins' questions, Deputy Ó Broin appeared to suggest data from the marked register was being combined with the electoral register.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: So Sinn Féin is cross-referencing two different data sources without a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: That is a "yes" or "no" question. Is Sinn Féin doing that or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sinn Féin is cross-referencing the marked register, which normally arrives in PDF, with the electoral register. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that available for more than one constituency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Sinn Féin doing that in more than one constituency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sinn Féin has access to a database separate from the marked register of people who have voted, in more than one constituency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Are there officials with access to more than one constituency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Does nobody in Sinn Féin have access to more than one constituency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sinn Féin holds a database of who has voted in more than one constituency, something which even the State does not have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Has Sinn Féin combined that with the marked register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sinn Féin has created a database in more than one constituency which records whether someone did or did not vote and the State does not have such a database.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy said that and I take his answer. Sinn Féin did that without a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment. I believe that is a breach of data, that that data was collected illegally and that it should be deleted. I move onto Sinn Féin Facebook strategy. Deputy Ó Broin states they are separate processes and I accept his bona fides on that....