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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Last week Dublin City Council, the HSE and the ETB launched a plan for public homes on public land with infrastructure to match. It will include a primary care centre and an increase in all-weather sporting facilities along with 100 homes. These facilities along with the new family resource centre in the area will be crucial to support the community in Finglas. Will the Taoiseach ensure...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...significantly delay it and I welcome that. I am no expert in any of these areas but I have taken the time to read these documents, particularly the lease because the issue of ownership of the public land seems to be of particular concern. I can find no legal mechanism in the lease which allows the landlord to interfere with or limit the services in the national maternity hospital. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: On the point of land zoning in Vienna that Ms Comer mentioned, obviously, the proposed system in Housing for All is for it to be planning permission connected with owner-occupied guarantee, which we do not yet have details of. It would be useful to have the details on both the owner-occupied guarantee and the 20% social and affordable housing in advance of us finalising that report. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...is that working? There are nearly 19 sites in the Ballymun area that are all ideal for affordable purchase. We want to see them started and moving. The policy tool and the funding is there. The land is all in public ownership so can we get delivery? Why would there be a delay, if that is the right word? What will be the speed in delivery for those? Cost rental and affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Or in government. If I might make one concluding statement, I agree with what both witnesses have said about the overall pipeline and using up land coming available shortly. However, I can only buy into that when on the acres and acres of land in my constituency we have a plan for each site. We do not have that at the moment. If any of our guests wants to come and build a house in Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ..., and we can come back to issues. If I am an official in an approved housing body or a local authority, there is the Home Building Finance Agency, HBFI, the HFA, the Housing Agency and the Land Development Agency, so are the differences in supports that are provided between these bodies clear? Some of them have been around for a substantial period but they have been given new roles and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...welcome money, has primarily gone to the inner city area and it is often used for large citywide projects. We must look to the future expansion of housing, such as that on the Oscar Traynor Road lands, with nearly 1,000 homes, and the Ballymun local area plan, which has nearly 2,000 homes. The master plan for private land on the Jamestown Road site would accommodate more than 1,000 homes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...may have other issues. On a different site in my area, somebody inherited a very large property but does not have the mental health resilience to be able to take on a project of that size. Active land management must be the key here. We need to empower local authorities not just to tackle vacancy but to undertake active land management whereby solutions are put together for landowners...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...phase of the urban regeneration development fund, URDF, and the second phase. The only project to benefit from the URDF in my constituency was €37,000 for a feasibility study on the Dunsink lands. Some of my colleagues asked me if it was €40 million, and I said it was just €37,000. That was a case of the local authority using money to carry out a feasibility study...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...on the edge of Dublin city, Meakstown being the classic one where housing was provided and the community facilities are only now following, 15 years later. We cannot see that on the Dunsink lands, even though there is great potential on that site. Of course, there is also the observatory, which is a little gem. I would love to see more people getting access even to the grounds if not to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...- whatever we happened to be doing. It has been with us for a long time. The second thing is that we have all seen the practical benefits of these often unused and underutilised pieces of land being turned into a community gain. In some ways, the fight is part of the formation of the group; not that one would leave it there for that reason. I have seen very strong groups emerge out...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: .... We put in a lot of hard work on the Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage; at departmental level; and in the Oireachtas by all parties on the Affordable Housing Act 2021, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 and the publication of Housing for All with all the tools that are in that document. Then there is the €4 billion multi-annual budget. All of that ambition...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Minister of State outlining some of the many things contained in Housing for All, the Affordable Housing Act 2021, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 and the many other measures that he mentioned. We need to go further and start to make sure that every local authority knows the breadth and depth of this housing plan, that every local authority knows how much is in here and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can the Tánaiste outline to the House the legislation we have passed that empowers local authorities to build public housing on public land?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Tánaiste outline to the House the legislation we as a Government have passed that empowers local authorities to build public housing on public land? Does he reject what happened yesterday in the Chamber when several terms like "sweetheart deal" and "blackmail attempts" were used deliberately to misrepresent what is happening with O'Devaney Gardens? This was a democratic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and have benefited from the supports we put into social programmes in Ballymun, want to come back to live beside their parents. They want to buy a home. We have 19 sites in Ballymun, 28 ha of land, all of which is in public ownership. I do not yet feel the ambition to deliver on those. They are all within our gift. I fully appreciate and have talked to Dublin City Council about what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...marine planning and the electoral reform Bills, which are lengthy pieces of legislation, housing has significantly changed in terms of the policy toolbox that is available to local authorities, the Land Development Agency and so on. It is very easy to look at Housing for All and rattle through all of the different schemes, but they all then need to be administered and delivered. That is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...those on the Government side, feel that a significant body of work has been done over the past two years in trying to deliver legislation that gave approved housing bodies, AHBs, local authorities, the Land Development Agency, LDA, and others the ability to deliver a wide range of solutions for housing. Having all of the various programmes is key. Sometimes, the housing crisis is painted...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...not have those tools before the legislation was passed in the past two years. We could not deliver mixed-income housing with that legislation. The programmes are important. There are 28 ha of land in public ownership across 19 sites. Dublin City Council has been looking at them. Without being critical, I expect Dublin City Council to be ambitious about all of those sites,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...work to do on that and he is due to visit the constituency and meet public representatives. A key element of that is the delivery of housing. We have 19 sites in public ownership with 28 ha of land which provide a great opportunity to deliver a mix of housing for a community that really deserves and will benefit from that investment. I am talking about public investment in public...