Results 1,341-1,360 of 5,580 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: That would deal with the accounting error.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: My concern is that there is an emerging deficit, one that might in some way be linked to student numbers. If so, it would be worrying. One would have thought that the amalgamation of several bodies would lead to some degree of cost savings and to them using one another’s resources. However, it now appears that we have an increased number of staff and reduced student numbers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I understand. As Dr. O'Reardon says, it is an ongoing piece of work and something to which we, as a committee, will return more directly with the HEA. For a Department that is promoting higher education, a reduction in numbers of students would be disappointing, particularly in an institution that was more than well placed to take advantage of the technical universities legislation at a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I heard that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: There is a key role in trying to promote apprenticeships. As a spokesperson on housing, I can say we absolutely need more availability in that pool. Given there is such a vocational base in that college, it might be that it experiences a reduction if there is a greater flow of people into the apprenticeship pool. That is something for us to keep an eye on. I know TUD has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I agree with Deputy O'Connor's proposal to invite the FAI, the Department and Sport Ireland to a meeting. I am particularly interested in exploring the issue of the Covid resilience funding. There is very much a feeling at club level that this funding never filtered down. I would like to explore some of the details as to how the Department ensured that the Covid money was distributed. If...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I have just come from the Committee of Public Accounts so I will allow the rotation and I will come back in later.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: One of the things we wanted to see when we passed the legislation and delivered Housing for All was delivery. Some of the frustration around underspend stems from the desire to deliver what was intended in the legislation. I know from speaking to the Dublin housing delivery group and our local authorities that work is being done on all the vast array of schemes and different models of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I am interested in a particular site in my own area near Charlestown. Fingal County Council has mooted that it would have some involvement in it. Does the Minister have any update on the mix there and what the likely offering will be?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: That is one method of delivery. The other one is those sites that are owned by local authorities. The local authority is delivering affordable purchase properties on a large number of sites in the Ballymun area, and I welcome that. I am concerned about the Ballymun shopping centre site, which inevitably will have a significant housing element to it, because the retail will be on the ground...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary Estimate) (23 Nov 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister. I may have to go to the Dáil shortly.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (23 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on plans to assist businesses struggling to meet the increased minimum wage with a view to introducing a living wage. [51533/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Cross-Border Co-operation (23 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government has reviewed the recommendations by the European Commission on developing social economy framework conditions in order to ease barriers to cross-border philanthropy. [51534/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the Government’s plan to introduce a domestic tax on e-cigarettes or vapes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51535/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (23 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the supports, financial or otherwise, available to houses and businesses that are flooded at a location (details supplied) which are included in the CFRAM flood area while they wait for the works to commence. [51802/23]
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Following the Minister's contribution, I will withdraw amendment No. 13.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: We have strayed a little beyond the renters' credit into the general housing issue. The Opposition continuously tries to promote this idea that the Government is out of ideas. This week I met approved housing bodies and local authorities and both reported that they cannot keep up with the ideas that are emanating from the Department and the Minister. I will not bore the House by listing...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Get rid of that.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: My amendment also deals with the issue of the rent tax credit and it calls on the Minister and the Department to lay a report on the impact of that rent tax credit, particularly the distributional impact, and where and what parts of the rental market it is having an impact on. First, I think the renters tax credit is a really important short-term measure - and I use that term, "short-term" -...