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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The purpose of amendment No. 607 is to address concern regarding section 15 of the climate Act, which requires planning authorities and the commission to exercise their duties in a manner consistent with a set of policies and objectives set out in the amendment. Section 83 appears to change this and relies on the wording "have regard". There is a concern among those involved in energy...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: That would be welcome. I am not sure I agree with him that the term "have regard" has a similar strength to "be consistent with". Any basic reading of the wording would suggest that. The idea of the Bill is to make things better. In this case we are trying to maintain the status quo and stop disimproving the situation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask the Minister of State to reflect on it. That would be useful. May I hear the Minister of State's response on amendments Nos. 760 and 761? It would be useful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to withdraw all four of the amendments I have put forward on the basis that the Minister of State will come back to us on the first two and that he will be as good as his word in respect of the final two.

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I acknowledge the motivation of Deputy Ward in bringing forward the Bill earlier in the week. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on making this time available to discuss this issue. At the core of both of those things is a recognition that we know the people coming to our clinics need a better service. That is where we have to start. If we get into the game of second-guessing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Two commitments in the programme for Government were welcome, those being, addressing the issue of apartment defects and reviewing the Multi-Unit Developments Act, or MUD Act, which governs management companies, sinking funds and management fees. In the coming months, we will see owners’ management companies, OMCs, receiving millions, if not billions, of euro in Government support....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It lies with the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but not the review of the MUD Act. This is not a conversation, though, and I do not want the Ceann Comhairle to have to tell me that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The benefit of being in the committee room is we cannot hear the bells going off that are outside. The housing committee has had a series of votes. I apologise if I cover areas that have been covered, although I heard earlier some of the contributions on yesterday's controversy around placing people in accommodation where documents had been - maybe there is no better word than -...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Exactly, yes. It was reported, obviously. I asked Mr. Gloster to respond to the Ballymun - A Brighter Future report. As Ms Duggan will be aware, it was commissioned by Dublin City Council and it sought to address the issue of the challenge of the lack of social workers within the north city area. One of the recommendations of the report was that a number of senior social workers would...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Maybe, to take some of that discussion offline, Ms Mannion might not be aware that the Taoiseach has appointed Mr. John Costello as the co-ordinator for the implementation board for Ballymun to respond to that report with the expectation that senior decision-makers in each of the organisations would come together to examine the actions needed. I ask Tusla to give a commitment that it will...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. That is fantastic. It is really good news. As I said to the Taoiseach, I could make the same arguments about lots of different areas in my constituency. Local community safety partnerships would be a key way of doing that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I believe Ballymun has been added to that list.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome that with the caveat that there has to be a continued engagement over decades because when area-based partnerships were set up as the local development companies, as they were in the 1990s, it was for this very reason to bring together the ETBs, the HSE and so on. What happened was the rank of official, particularly within the HSE, reduced over time. Fewer people who were able to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The other issue identified in the report, which has an application across all of the areas Tusla works, is the idea that while social workers are key to interventions, their work could also be augmented or supplemented by, for example, youth workers or family support workers.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I understand in the crisis in the recruitment of social workers, youth workers who are not necessarily based with youth services would be a beneficial step. I will give an example. I met the principal of Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun and we were talking about the issue of school avoidance and again they raised the difficulty with me. A child comes into school, there is a crisis for...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a huge array of initiatives. At our recent joint policing committee meeting where we discussed all of this, we were not aware of the vast amount of what Tusla was doing because Tusla is not part of the joint policing committee and, therefore, it was not able to pick up on the hotspots and all of the other stuff, the incidents where our local park might have 30 or 40 kids gathering...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I support the amendment. I would like to provide a practical insight into its benefit. During the Ballymun regeneration process, a large number of areas were not developed for several years because of the desire to have owner-occupied houses on those sites - a very different time from now. Community gardens sprung up on many of those parcels of land. When it came to drafting the local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Deputy Matthews finished?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When Deputy Matthews is finished, Deputy Ó Broin will come in and I want to speak on amendment No. 422 as well.