Results 1,261-1,280 of 5,583 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- 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...
- 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 are many people in the Department of housing who did that for a decade.
- 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 have cut Mr. Doyle off a number of times when he raised the issue of delivery. I have to acknowledge that three years ago, when I first sat before the committee, there were multiple housing sites in my area that had huge potential. Almost every site in my constituency is now under development. There are almost 2,200 units in design and will hopefully now move into construction. There is...
- 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 about it.
- 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: Regardless of that-----
- 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: Regardless of that, this was over a ten-year period and the State was still going to be here ten years later. The population was only increasing and it was only going to be more expensive to house those people ten years later than it was in that period. It is a long-term issue for the State. I am not talking about any one Government.
- 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 reality was that there was no overhang, there was no oversupply and we should have kept building houses.
- 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: Yes, absolutely.
- 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 never was in Dublin.
- 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 think we have strayed into the area of commenting on areas of policy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I do not know if the clerk can bring us to question No. 4, which related to the guarantee and the meeting of 7 May. It appears the response to that question indicates that an agreement was made at that Teams meeting that the guarantee was in place and also that in the advance of the sponsor not being in place, RTÉ would be liable. Having had the opportunity to privately read both the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but I am also referring to my understanding of the private document I read. I say that because I want people to believe that in all the sources available to me, I can find no corroborating evidence for the answer that is clearly given in question No. 4. In fact, it is troubling that this reply would be given in the documents provided to us by RTÉ. Of all the different answers,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I think all members would have hoped there would be no requirement for any further public meetings. It is disappointing, as we approach the end of 2023, that the decision was made not to make those reports available to us before the end of this calendar year when our specific remit to hold public hearings allows us to do that. It is problematic for us that a decision was made by RTÉ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: On the point on the answers to questions Nos. 4 and 39a regarding the provision of a guarantee at the meeting of 7 May, the principal argument of RTÉ is that the guarantee was given at the meeting of 7 May. It has been its position from the very beginning. I cannot recall any primary evidence from anybody before the committee, given that Dee Forbes was not here and many of the people...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I cannot reflect on Mr. Kelly's evidence because I do not have all of it and I do not know whether he referenced it or whether he was asked about it. He is the only other person who could provide the information. From RTÉ's perspective, I do not recall any evidence it provided for its principal defence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The Peter McVerry Trust issue warrants discussion with regard to the answers provided by the Secretary General, which indicated the Department and the wider public will be in possession of a larger number of facts following the conclusion of the reports. Depending on the content of the reports, we should consider inviting the Department to come back to discuss this specific topic. I do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Some of them were more colourful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Hear, hear.