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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance for a report on the operation of the living city initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 234. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with regard 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...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I agree with Deputy O'Dowd. I think of Willie Bermingham, the founder of ALONE, who established that charity to transform the lives of people who were forgotten. For every person who receives these grants, their life is transformed. However, this also means that for every person who does not receive a grant, their life is limited. We must ensure the financial steps are in place to address...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: As the Ceann Comhairle has said, the housing adaptation grants are a well-understood tool that many of us in our constituency offices or during our time in local authorities would have used to support people to stay in their homes and avoid adding to the requirement for more permanent residential supports. It is one of the more successful schemes that local authorities operate, in that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on From Poverty to Potential: A Programme Plan for Child Well-being 2023-2025, published by his Department on 1 August 2023. [37564/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the child poverty unit and the report that it issued. I met the Society of St. Vincent de Paul last week. It reported that in conjunction with the elimination of fees for school books and the increase of €100 in the back-to-school allowance, it had seen a 20% reduction in requests for assistance in regard to the return to school. It is an example of how Government measures...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the anomaly whereby cars purchased for use as a taxi prior to 2010 can continue to be used, whereas cars purchased from 2012 onwards cannot continue to be used due to the ten-year rule; if he plans to introduce a 15-year limit for all vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the hot school meals programme to special schools; and how many schools would benefit from such an expansion. [42623/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is an intention to open an investigation into historical allegations of abuse in the Probation Service; and if there is a cross over with investigations into similar matters in an organisation (details supplied). [42208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (3 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 672. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that an application for a discretionary medical card by an applicant (details supplied) was refused, despite forwarded evidence demonstrating that they are a cancer patient facing ongoing and rising medical costs due to their condition. [42707/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: We have seen a big debate in recent weeks on the funding of childcare places. There is a realisation that a one-size-fits-all solution does not fit for every circumstance. One area that is of real concern to me is childcare services that operate in disadvantaged areas and have a very high number of sponsored places. Some 30%, 40% or 50% of their places could be on the sponsored place...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank our witnesses for being here today. Looking back on the body of work that NAMA has done, you would have to say that, by and large, it has completed the job. We could have arguments about whether at times sales were done with too much expediency and the taxpayer may not have gained a long-term benefit given property values and everything else. Over time, perhaps there were...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: By an approved housing agency.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that the site had what is now identified in a new Government scheme around defective issues in apartment blocks. Perhaps Prospect Hill was a sign that that was a more widespread issue. Again, that is something that was well known back in 2013. My point was that, the works aside, this was still a ten-year period, albeit with legal issues and so on, and whether it was NAMA or Dublin...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I do accept that. It is important to say that all those works were done and all those units are back up to full scratch. In many ways, the residents were in a better situation when dealing with NAMA than if they had dealt with a developer that was not in NAMA, had gone defunct and did not have to deal with it. I accept all of that. However, my broader question was about the narrative...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: However, was it not the case that the issue of delivery of supply was also an issue for NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is still the case now.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that this is with the benefit of hindsight and so on, but it is part of the reason we are now are we are. It is disappointing that when we had so much control, more emphasis on a policy level was not placed on turning that around. I will make one last point, which is that both the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Construction Industry Federation,...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It has not yet been transferred to the Land Development Agency, LDA, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, I know of it.