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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is always difficult speaking about a general provision in legislation and then starting to discuss a specific site. We are not discussing a specific proposal for Moore Street, though I accept that is a possible application of it. The term "surrounding context of the structure" is very broad. My concern is it probably does not give a defined enough application of what Deputy Ó Broin...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Never mind the mouldy bread, we often get mouldy answers here but the Deputy is correct that it was a good answer. That is because it is a good policy and it is welcome. I have seen it in practice in schools, as have many Deputies present. It is transformative. I also like the universality element because disadvantaged children do not always go to DEIS schools. It is important to roll...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On the basis of what she has just said to the House, I encourage the Minister to work with her Government colleagues on this issue, in particular for those people who applied for the carer's allowance several years ago, or up to a decade ago in some cases. Over that time, that person's partner may have had an increase in salary. Many of those people do not understand that it is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of delays to payments (details supplied). [7524/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many people nationally are on a waiting list for renewal of their Irish residence permit (formerly GNIB); if the Department considers this a delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7928/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Like many others, I have concerns about the current powers of CPO, in particular those Uisce Éireann has and its belief that the existing powers in the Planning and Development Act 2000 would cease and that similar or effective powers would not be available in the new Bill. I note there has been some engagement with the Department on the matter and I think some reassurances have been...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister addressed the point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am reluctant to get involved in what is essentially a political debate between the Minister of State and the Opposition. On a number of occasions Deputy Ó Broin has characterised the way in which those who support the Government in the House prosecute or pursue an argument they may have in regard to the Planning Regulator or elsewhere. It is important for us to reflect on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Ó Broin seems to be questioning the idea that a backbencher could speak against a Government Minister. In fact it happens every day in the House. It is not limited to the Office of the Planning Regulator. It extends to the HSE, the Department of Education and many other areas. We do not live in a perfect system where people are happy with everything. I am a bit bewildered by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the Minister of State's clarification of the statistics on the funding. Dublin City Council has been investing in its housing stock for some time and reducing the voids. I think the council has some of the lowest void levels in the country. That is because it made the decision that was not just going to rely on central...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State for the clarification and as I said, I congratulate Dublin City Council on the way it is approaching it. The issue in my constituency is not necessarily that of voids but of delivery. On the last count, 3,047 homes in my constituency are being built under Housing for All. All are public homes on public land. These are projects the Opposition not only voted...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There are a number of small issues I want to deal with. I will continue Deputy Dillon's line of questioning regarding immigration. For reasons to do with our history, we probably have never seen the significant numbers we have seen in the past number of years and we have probably never had the full public debate on the issue of immigration that we see in many other countries. Sometimes...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When Ms McPhillips says refused entry, does she mean at the airport?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: So 7,600 people attended Dublin Airport and were refused entry to the country.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that 4,968 out of the 7,600?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: So the figure was-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When somebody is refused leave to land, what happens to them next?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that done by the DAA or the Department of Justice?