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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The 100,000 homes delivered in the lifetime of the Government have been welcome. In areas where viability is an issue, it is important that we have public housing on public land, in particular in cities. It is welcome that there are almost 2,500 houses in design and construction on many sites in my constituency alone. I am worried about one site in particular, which is the old Ballymun...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Has there been any discussion with, for example, the Land Development Agency, LDA, about the disposal of those properties or that land?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Given the remit of the Land Development Agency with regard to providing social and affordable housing, I ask the IFI to undertake to contact the agency again, given it is now in existence. Every opportunity to provide those types of properties from State agencies is important. Public housing is a priority of the Government. I ask Ms Campion to undertake to engage on that again to see-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...If established rights of way that have been subjected to the local authority process and registered with Tailte Éireann are frustrated, what is the mechanism to vindicate them? For example, if a landowner prevents people from crossing his land, who is responsible for vindicating the right of way? If we are saying it requires a legal process that rests on the individual, for example,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...to— (i) grant an extension in accordance with subsection (4), state the main reasons and considerations for the decision having regard to the development plan that applies or applied to the land on which the development is proposed to be situated when such permission was granted, or (ii) make an alteration or grant an extension in accordance with section 142, state the main...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 396: In page 107, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(h) the zoning of sufficient and suitable lands for renewable and low-carbon energy deployment consistent with the achievement of Ireland’s national climate targets.”

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

Paul McAuliffe: I have four amendments in this group. They relate to various areas and I might get the response of the Minister of State on each one. Amendment No. 396 relates to providing sufficient suitable lands for renewable and low-carbon energy zoned lands. It is to ensure that renewable and low carbon energy has a practical resource to provide the energy in a positive way consistent with...

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

Paul McAuliffe: ...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 area plan, we wanted to accommodate those in some way within the large overall bank of land that was there. It would have been very helpful to have a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...down to and including line 37, and substitute the following: “(1) The following shall be exempted developments for the purposes of this Act— (a) development consisting of the use of any land for the purpose of agriculture and development consisting of the use for that purpose of any building occupied together with land so used; (b) development by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...issue in my constituency is not necessarily that of voids but of delivery. On the last count, 3,047 homes in my constituency are being built under Housing for All. All are public homes on public land. These are projects the Opposition not only voted against the budgets for but also the Bills that enabled them and, in some cases, they voted against the proposals when they came before the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When somebody is refused leave to land, what happens to them next?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...their passport with the intention of claiming asylum under a new application name or for whatever reason, that is the next step. They will claim asylum. Of the 5,800 who were refused leave to land, how many went on to claim asylum?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...money I ask the witnesses to do what they can. The last point - I might come back to it in the second round - is the Finglas primary care centre. In 2020, we were sitting here talking about a land swap and finalisation of a project and we still have no Finglas primary care centre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...if they enter government. On the other side, there are those who supported the LDA but are expressing our frustration because we want more. We want its delivery and ambition to be scaled up, for landowners to work harder with it to unlock their lands, and for the LDA to do everything in its power to be the land development agency and deliverer of public housing on public lands that we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 27 June 2023, to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with Dublin City Council and Glenveigh in relation to a new school and land swap for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1657/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...Public Accounts gives us an opportunity to look back at historic spending and it is always concerned about making recommendations about how we can do that better and where things went wrong. The land aggregation scheme, LAG, is a really good example of what many people have called that decade of undersupply in housing. Where a resource was available to the State, over a ten-year period...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...of the Finglas primary care centre which is part of the Sláintecare plank of improving healthcare through primary care. We have received an update on the very slow process of transferring land from the diocese to Dublin City Council and then on to the HSE. We have been promised that a planning application will be submitted in quarter 4 of 2023 and I hope that promise will be...

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: ...accommodation that was referred to earlier. All of the universities are trying to solve the puzzle of how much they can borrow and how to do it. TUD is right in the middle of the city. It has land and there are plans in that regard. Over time, borrowing for housing purposes is something we should try to facilitate. Would that need to be dealt with through the variation and amendment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: .... It is still easy to achieve 33% and we could easily see tensions between coalition parties in governments playing out in a council, where councillors feel they have more freedom and may want to land a punch that cannot be done at national level. They do it with the freedom to vote for it while saying it is not them making the decision but the Minister. I do not think we made a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (9 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and the delivery of infrastructure but it can pose a challenge at constrained sites. In my constituency, Beaumont Hospital is an increasingly constrained site, although it once had a lot of land around it. The Mater hospital, which is nearby, is beyond maximum capacity. The big challenge will concern how rapid build can be achieved at congested sites or in brownfield areas, where more...