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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. That is fantastic. It is really good news. As I said to the Taoiseach, I could make the same arguments about lots of different areas in my constituency. Local community safety partnerships would be a key way of doing that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I believe Ballymun has been added to that list.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome that with the caveat that there has to be a continued engagement over decades because when area-based partnerships were set up as the local development companies, as they were in the 1990s, it was for this very reason to bring together the ETBs, the HSE and so on. What happened was the rank of official, particularly within the HSE, reduced over time. Fewer people who were able to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The other issue identified in the report, which has an application across all of the areas Tusla works, is the idea that while social workers are key to interventions, their work could also be augmented or supplemented by, for example, youth workers or family support workers.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I understand in the crisis in the recruitment of social workers, youth workers who are not necessarily based with youth services would be a beneficial step. I will give an example. I met the principal of Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun and we were talking about the issue of school avoidance and again they raised the difficulty with me. A child comes into school, there is a crisis for...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a huge array of initiatives. At our recent joint policing committee meeting where we discussed all of this, we were not aware of the vast amount of what Tusla was doing because Tusla is not part of the joint policing committee and, therefore, it was not able to pick up on the hotspots and all of the other stuff, the incidents where our local park might have 30 or 40 kids gathering...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can assist with an urgent request in respect of school transport (details supplied). [9428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer annually to provide free travel for people with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer annually to abolish the means test for fish assist and farm assist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9405/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 184. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of the Finglas primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9642/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I can see the logic and consistency in extending it to a ten-year period, given that is what we are doing with development plans, so there will be a degree of consistency regarding the timelines for long-term planning. My only fear relates to the co-ordination of those two cycles, whereby there could end up being a significant gap between the two if they do not co-ordinate. I will not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I join colleagues on these amendments. There is a strong argument that if these structures are no longer being used as a telephone kiosk they are in breach of the original purpose for which planning was granted. The idea that they would be repurposed into Wi-Fi hot spots or phone charging points, which is happening in a number of cases, is just a farce and undermines the reason they were...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 108 and 110, I think, are about slightly different issues, and I think-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree. Sorry. When you indicated, I thought you were going to come in on this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister of State has addressed amendments Nos. 105, 106 and 111, but Deputy Matthews also spoke on amendment No. 107.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Deputy Ó Snodaigh wish to address the other amendments before him together? These are amendments Nos. 113, 114, 115 and 116.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: That is fine. Will the Deputy address all his amendments together?