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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding given to the Finglas Youth Resource Centre for the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11284/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding given to the Den Youth project, Finglas, Dublin 11 for the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11285/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When a development is close to other developments, a planner will often apply a stepping-up or stepping-down principle to try to match adjoining building heights or to ensure that there is consistency. I am hearing two different perspectives. Is there anything in what is proposed in the Bill that would prevent a planner from making a decision when it comes to stepping up or stepping down?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will we be discussing amendment No. 212?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I will speak briefly to my two amendments, which are both self-explanatory. They are very simple. Amendment No. 210 is about promoting infrastructure and so on. I wish to respond to the debate though because it is important. The proposal Deputy O’Callaghan spoke about is, in some ways, contradictory. I think back to my days in development plan discussions. With many of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I was speaking against the amendment for the reason I outlined.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to hear the Minister's response on the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy is misunderstanding my point. I will make it very simply. I was just saying that there is a conflict between adding an aspiration for affordability and adding an aspiration for additional costs. There is a challenge there. If we add more bells and whistles, it will cost more and be less affordable. My point is that the two things can be contradictory.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I was not talking about the viability or ideals.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy was not even in the room when I said it so I do not know how he even heard me.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister is right, it was my error.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Apologies; it was my error.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: My amendment was about Irish Water in particular in a number of places where the addition of statutory undertaker has been applied. I understand there are some discussions between the Departments on that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (6 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I would very much appreciate that. I know the planning and building unit is a bit of a black box. I think all TDs would love to have more access to the decisions that are made there. If the Minister of State could pass on those concerns, I hope we could get a positive response. It is really important the Minister of State acknowledges what has happened in our area in recent years,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (6 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: One of the positive things we have seen under this Government has been investment in education. As the Minister of State outlined in response to the previous matter, we have seen new special schools. In my own area, there have been investments in new schools such as St. Aidan's secondary school and the Dominican secondary school. However, with education there is always a list of asks, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10870/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will continue funding the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10871/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am also very familiar with the work of Debra Ireland. The HTA process is not just protracted, as Deputy O'Sullivan points out. In 2011, I authored the Irish Platform for Patients Organisations report, which referred to a black hole in decision-making at the end of the process. We have to find a way of striking a balance between value for the taxpayer, which we should pursue without...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9023/24]