Results 1-19 of 19 for cork speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...regard. We have been speaking with the Minister for some time. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan, who asked me to raise this parliamentary question on his behalf today, has also been working with Cork County Council, and perhaps the same interaction could be undertaken with that local authority. This is an important scheme and it is having an impact. I always have a wry smile when Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...’s perspective, does it have worries about people falling between the gaps? Is a structural change needed for those cases? Second, is it having the same experiences as in Dublin Simon and Cork Simon where it believes that, by and large, these things are being worked out at local level?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In the course of our discussions with local authorities, Cork City Council identified a site it has. It indicated that if it did not have to carry that debt over, the units would be more affordable. Is that-----

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...councils recently appeared before the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss how they are implementing Housing for All. They followed the four Dublin councils and Cork, Waterford and Limerick councils, with more councils to appear before us in the new year. All of these councils are telling us the story of public homes being built in increasing numbers. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: In advance of today's meeting I spoke to my Fianna Fáil colleagues on both local authorities represented today. From Cork's perspective, there was particular praise, particularly from Councillor Tony Fitzgerald, who talked about the regeneration in the north-west area, in Knocknaheeny and so on. There is a question as to whether the council is doing enough to deliver on affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Absolutely. It was a pity more local authorities did not look at the timeline for that legislation and do exactly what Cork City Council did. I appreciate Ms Doherty's response. From Galway's perspective, I will raise with the witnesses a number of site-specific matters before then coming back to more general points. As for the affordable housing on the Merlin Woods site, Galway City...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: To follow on from my last point, is there a reason Galway City Council did not take the lead Cork took? I would be critical of my local authority for the same thing. Galway City Council is still developing the model but the legislation was published 12 months ago. Is there a reason Galway City Council did not do what Cork did and move ahead of the legislation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My concern is that more than €5 billion is going into the sector, admittedly across a whole range of spectrums. For intellectual disabilities in particular, and in the Cork area specifically, it essentially came to a situation where those people in receipt of HSE funding were not able to accommodate children with special needs. The education and training board, ETB, stepped in and...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: .... A passport was kindly issued to a child on time and we were able to get it but the passports of the child's parents, who live in my constituency and applied through the Passport Office in Balbriggan, were sent to Cork for redistribution. The parents had to travel to Cork to get the passports so the family could travel together. It is very difficult to explain to members of the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...head of policy and communications and, from Focus Ireland, by Mr. Pat Dennigan, CEO, and Mr. Mike Allen, director of advocacy and research. We are also joined remotely by Mr. Dermot Kavanagh, CEO, Cork Simon Community. We are joined by Ms Louisa Santoro, CEO of The Mendicity Institution, who is here in the room, and Dr. Una Burns, head of policy and communications at Novas. They are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...were also made by the Minister. I would appreciate if those types of principles could be recommitted to here by Mr. O'Rourke and Mr. Coleman. The Minister said that in places like Dublin and Cork that land developed by the LDA, and this would differ slightly from local authority land, would be 100% used for public housing, including social and affordable housing. I would like the...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the people who helped us to get this across the line. It starts with the Taoiseach, who at an early stage identified this as an issue similar to the issue of joyriding in the 1980s and 1990s in Cork. He realised that it would not be solved by one measure, but by a range of measures. I thank Deputy Lahart for the work he did and for allowing me to co-sign the Bill. After that Bill was...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...at the moment, Housing for All has solutions for you. If you do not qualify for social housing, you will now qualify for cost rental. If there are empty public sites beside you, in Dublin, Cork and other places where affordability is an issue, 100% of those will be used for public housing on public land, as provided for in the LDA Bill. The Minister has capped both deposits and rents....

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry to cut off Mr. O'Connor. I am conscious of the time. The proposals that came forward last night were really significant because in Dublin and Cork they allow for 100% affordable and social housing on public land. That means that all the traditional biases, which are unjustified, surrounding the provision of Traveller accommodation within an overall development, how it might...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...put the question back to him - why would we do that? The Minister has been clear from the beginning that there has been no attempt to do that. His amendments ensure that in places like Dublin and Cork, we have 100% public housing on public land. They give a legislative basis to what we have talked about, called for, marched for and voted in councils for. Here we are with a Bill that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Apr 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 1053. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for a project (details supplied) to be transferred back to the Cork Education and Training Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19952/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank my colleagues for allowing me to take a slot. I am not a member of this committee, but between Galway coachmen, Daniel O'Connell and Cork distilleries, I might be back again. I want to raise two issues with the Minister. First, I mention the consultation that is taking place on the Dublin 11 Luas line through Finglas. I have raised this with the Minister and, as he knows, it is...

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ..., the Minister of Infrastructure, Ms Nichola Mallon, MLA, who has met the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to commence a feasibility study on a high-speed rail link between Belfast, Dublin and Cork and may have ambitions to include Limerick and Derry. Today, a £250 million city deal was confirmed by the British Government. The Minister, Ms Mallon, and Mr. Colum Eastwood,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: ...like to focus a little bit on the situation which was outlined. We have no horizon on where this virus is going. The current situation is not sustainable. Has the DAA done any projections for Cork and Dublin airports of how many months it could trade for if the current level of business were to become the new norm?