Results 41-60 of 6,051 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank Deputy Connolly. That concludes our engagement with the Health Information and Quality Authority. I thank Ms Fitzgerald and her officials for their attendance. I also thank the officials and representatives from the Department of Health and the HSE. Before we depart, is it agreed that the clerk will seek any follow-up information and will carry out the agreed actions arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is aware of financial constraints currently being experienced by independent youth projects in Dublin; if she will put in place a bespoke solution to alleviate any constraints, in partnership with the City of Dublin Youth Services board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the amount of funding provided to each of the 31 local authorities for voids in years 2020-2025; the number of voids returned to use in each local authority in the years 2020-2025; and the number of outstanding voids in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if she has taken any action to resolve the financial dispute between the HSE and Dublin City Council which has resulted in the Council taking court action against the HSE; the origins of the debt, the amount of the debt and actions in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40429/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [35225/25]

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the additional funding for those local authorities that would have been categorised as self-financing. In the case of Dublin city, that will amount to about €19 million in extra funding. I say extra, but this is money raised in Dublin city being retained in Dublin city. It is always difficult to get excited about additional funding for local authorities because in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: When the Secretary General of the Department was before the Committee of Public Accounts, the accounts that were prepared showed several hundred million retained in the LPT fund, which was egregious because there was a need for it to be implemented. Will the distribution of additional funding happen to continue to ensure that no surplus is generated?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The Estimates contain many streams of funding. One of them helps fund housing aid for older people. The Minister will know, because I have discussed it with him privately, about the recent EU directive to prevent the subsidisation of carbon-consuming devices, namely gas or oil boilers. The change to the scheme this year has had an impact in the context of how it is implemented. In Dublin...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a very simple system where someone can replace a whole gas boiler system with an electric radiator system for between €3,000 and €7,000. We need to explain that to people, have a package that is easily available and have contractors in the market. The difficulty is that there is nobody in the market repairing second-hand boilers. It is hard enough to get a plumber to...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The solution needs to come from the SEAI. On affordable housing, at this committee and at the public accounts committee, the Department and the industry have both stated that within the M50 ring there will, at least in the foreseeable future, never be a home built to sell for profit. Effectively, most of the units to be built in that area will be subsidised in one form or another, whether...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I might forward to the Minister details of a number of sites that have been identified in my area as reaching the threshold of viability. The Department needs to work very closely with Dublin City Council to make sure they are built. Regardless of whether they are subsidised, we need the construction to start. We can work out the finances of it as it goes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline new EU regulations for vehicles over 2.5 tonnes in weight; the impact new regulations may have on the island, including potential implications for the Border; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the expected construction date of the Ballymun to city centre core bus corridor. [39386/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an updated timeline on the proposed implementation of the F spine as part of the BusConnects programme. [39387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full review will be carried out of the SNA review carried out at a school (details supplied). [39201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to amend the policy whereby teachers, or prospective teachers, must be on her Department’s payroll or teaching in an Education and Training Board school before an application can be processed for incremental credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39252/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance will be reinstated for a person (details supplied). [39225/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 945. To ask the Minister for Health if the national treatment purchase fund is an option in the case of a person (details supplied), given the lengthy wait time for an appointment. [39195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 960. To ask the Minister for Health if officials from her Department will meet with a delegation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 961. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to ensure broad and meaningful consultation on alcohol harm and its inclusion in the new national drugs strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39308/25]