Results 141-160 of 5,902 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The C and AG said he believes the CHI report on the NTPF should have been available to him previously. Will he expand on why he is of that view, including the grounds on which it should have been made available and when he should have had it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that because of a financial risk?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, I ask that the committee make a request that a copy of the document, or the relevant details, be made available to us.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 28. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of a campaign group (details supplied) and its calls for the GPO to be given as a veteran centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27202/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Clonturk-Swords Road educational campus and capital programmes on site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (12 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding to date this year for independent youth projects in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31113/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I see the specific issue with trying to include a particular condition because there are many others that could be. I have reminded myself of the specific request in the DCU FAST report, which is to do with people being committed to psychiatric institutions when they are under the influence. There is a difficulty with doing that. The way we might deal with it on Report Stage is that rather...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the amendment because it opens the discussion on dual diagnosis, which is incredibly important. I was lucky enough to be part of the DCU Finglas Addiction Support Team, FAST, peer-reviewed research on dual diagnosis. There were a whole range of recommendations included within it. One of those was an amendment to the Mental Health Act that would ensure a no wrong door approach. ...

Proposed Approval of the Agreement Between the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Ireland: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister is one of those people who was certain about CERN a long time ago. While that organisation might operate at the speed of light, the implementation of our associate membership, unfortunately, did not. This is a small step in some ways but it also represents an important underlining of the investment by Governments over many decades in education and research, which has put...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: First, I will respond to the thousands of emails I have received and make it clear that I, my party and the Government do not support the genocide taking place in Gaza. We do not support the genocide, the starvation of Gazan citizens or the current actions of Hamas or Israel. We believe those actions are undermining the stability of peace in the region and of the ultimate solution, a...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I might try to divide my time. Six minutes is such a short amount of time. It is more of a challenge for the witnesses than for us. We have the easy job of asking the questions. First, on the DPOs, maybe to reassure the witnesses a little, no Oireachtas committee's agenda is set in stone. It is set by us, as a committee, and we can change it at any time and can decide to do that as a...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I would have a different perspective on the Taoiseach's approach to this, but that might be a natural thing for us to disagree on. What I am focused on is the fact that if the restriction relating to those children at this moment who need assessments of need is recruitment, then what is the best way of deploying the State's resources? I am struck by the three thirds relating to this debate....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I hear Mr. Darmody's points. If I was the person in charge of the service, I would be looking at the blockages. Part of the difficulty is the man and woman power resource. That seems to be the limitation.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Walsh has replied to some of my comments on DPOs. How do they interact with other established representative organisations? I would like to understand the difference between the two and the different roles they might have.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it hoped to establish a DPO in every local authority?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: We might hear from some of the other witnesses as well.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: How does the IDS differ from a DPO? What do you think the relationship between the two will be as things go forward?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the current statutory redundancy guidelines, with a view to reducing the time required to claim a payment and to increase payments, given the rise in cost of living. [30901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out in relation to the decision not to award the carer’s support grant to a person (details supplied). [31096/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I spent five years on the housing committee during the previous Dáil, and I learned fairly quickly that there is no silver bullet to solve the housing crisis. It is by turning on the supply in multiple different streams that we will be able to reach that. Despite what previous speakers said, we cannot ignore the fact that we are now at the stage where we are building more social or...