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An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: In the debate on the last amendment, we talked about red herrings representing a real challenge to the making of amendments. One of the other challenges will be getting people excited about this referendum. Many people, when discussing it with them, will ask what difference it will really make. They often say that what the existing language implies is not what happens in Ireland now and...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Like the other Deputies who served on the committee, we should acknowledge that, with the date now set and the legislation before us, we have a historic opportunity to recognise those families who do not fit within the tight constitutional framework that the current version of the Constitution permits. That is important because, no matter how we get there, the House is united in ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Investigations (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of reports carried out on the former Dunsink Dump, Dublin 11, in relation to toxins and odours coming from the site in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to amend the Defence Forces recruitment process to allow persons with asthma to join; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56640/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 450. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to work permits for the home care sector, the number of work permit applications received since the scheme opened in January 2023; the number of work permits issued; the number of applications returned at initial applications pre-check stage; the number of other applications rejected and the number of applications...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for school transport which was made in July 2023. [1474/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 27 June 2023, to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with Dublin City Council and Glenveigh in relation to a new school and land swap for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1657/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full cost of issuing physical payslips to teachers and other staff by her Department in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1658/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to issue guidance to local authorities on the issue of removing civic honours previously bestowed under section 74 of the Local Government Act 2001, or if his Department has plans to legislate to expressly grant the right to remove a civic honour; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I also want to mark the anniversary of Private Seán Rooney. I think all of our thoughts are with the families of peacekeepers who are separated from their loved ones this Christmas. The drugs task force co-ordinator position in Finglas and Cabra has been a funded post for many decades. A vacancy has arisen because the co-ordinator passed away. The recruitment process is under...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome everybody. We have frequent interaction on the housing committee so I have an opportunity there to talk about delivery. I thank the witnesses for some of the answers that we have got in that regard. The Committee of Public Accounts gives us an opportunity to look back at historic spending and it is always concerned about making recommendations about how we can do that better...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Absolutely. The difficulty is that Mr. Jordan is pre-empting my line of questioning. I was leading the witness in a direction. It was not actioned until 2020 or 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: No, it is about the State failing to deliver public housing for any significant period between 2010 and 2020. There is no doubt, as Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, that we started that decade with serious financial issues. Yet, at some point during that ten-year period you would have to say that there was a tipping point that I am trying to identify. In the ten-year period during which the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: In which year did the Housing Agency identify that there was not sufficient capital?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I know. Therefore, insufficient capital was being provided to local authorities to deliver. Is it the case that the Housing Agency understood that in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The availability of capital was a key blockage and a number of people have said it. Those were real factors on the ground that were preventing delivery. How were those messages sent up through the system from the local authorities, through the Housing Agency and into the Department? Mr. Jordan mentioned the response to demand, but the housing emergency started to emerge very quickly in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Graham, I do not wish to revisit that. I know Housing for All and inasmuch as delivery overseen by Ms Timmons and Ms Stapleton is happening, I am not questioning that. I want us to look back to see how we stop this happening again. A demographic bulge was coming at us; that was clear. Sites were available but key tools were needed, capital being one of them. The second one mentioned...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt but that the two sovereign funds we are establishing on foot of the budget will go a long way to ensuring we have multi-annual funding even in a cyclical downturn. I accept all that. Yet, within the Department itself, there is the Housing Agency and there are housing authorities in the local authorities. The Department funds the local authorities. Was there sufficient...