Results 1-20 of 191 for long speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...a minority of the Irish people take up a large amount of bandwidth in our public conversation. There is a lesson there for us. While there might not be an immediate political benefit, there is certainly a long-term political benefit to making the right decisions and representing large numbers of Irish people who may have a position on this but are not actively engaged in any particular...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...practicable, perform their functions under this Act and exercise any discretion in a manner consistent with— (a) the most recent approved climate action plan, (b) the most recent approved national long term climate action strategy, (c) the most recent approved national adaptation framework and approved sectoral adaptation plans, (d) the furtherance of the national climate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...either generally or with reference to any particular category of development scheme appeals, where it appears to him or her to be necessary, by virtue of exceptional circumstances, to do so and, for so long as the regulations are in force.”.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (6 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...it felt that might speed it up but here we are at the very last minute and it is not complete. One of the other two schools I referenced are Clonturk College where parents have campaigned for a long time. It is an Educate Together second-level school. Temporary buildings have gone in but we want to see a permanent school. The ETB and Educate Together are both involved and there are...

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

Paul McAuliffe: ...mental health. I hope that when the new mental health Bill comes before this House, those in Opposition support the new legislation and the work the Minister of State has done. It will not be long before that decision has to be made. With regard to CAMHS, I attended this morning's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts at which we discussed Tusla, where staffing is a real...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I can see the logic and consistency in extending it to a ten-year period, given that is what we are doing with development plans, so there will be a degree of consistency regarding the timelines for long-term planning. My only fear relates to the co-ordination of those two cycles, whereby there could end up being a significant gap between the two if they do not co-ordinate. I will not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: .... We have to be clearer with parents. Everyone in the House is united in wanting the State to do more for the parents of children with additional needs. We and the Minister have come a long way in terms of additional ASD classes in areas where they were previously unavailable. We have persuaded many principals to consider the establishment of ASD classes because it is still a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: .... By the way, they have been presented to us in reverse order of the timeline. It is very difficult to string them together or have a coherent understanding of what is happening. There is a long-running tradition in the Committee of Public Accounts that when organisations provide their documents late, we often go on to find out there is information being hidden from the committee. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the school to try to address this ageing and large campus, which unfortunately has a small number of students, meaning that the capitation grant goes nowhere near the management costs. There is a long-term issue here with how we manage the school building and invest in it. I accept that the summer works scheme needs to be brought to a conclusion and I thank the Minister for her support....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: How long would the longest investigation take?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: No, but there will be properties that will not be sold, so LPT may never be recouped. Is there any long-term strategy for those? After five, ten or 15 years, we are starting to get into those-----

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and I especially welcome that. It also removes an element of judgment. At the core of a provision like this is an element of judgment about lone parents and so on and that is a sentiment that has long disappeared and it is right to remove it. The last point is that it is a very good example of the State quality-controlling the legislation we pass and looking at the numbers, which speak...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: .... I appreciate that that involves people engaging as well, but I would have a particular concern that either we would write off those debts when there is an opportunity for people to repay over a long period, and I do not think that would be appropriate, or that it would be presented in some sort of lump sum at that point, which would not be an appropriate method either.

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: There is no doubt but that the two sovereign funds we are establishing on foot of the budget will go a long way to ensuring we have multi-annual funding even in a cyclical downturn. I accept all that. Yet, within the Department itself, there is the Housing Agency and there are housing authorities in the local authorities. The Department funds the local authorities. Was there sufficient...

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: ...was still going to be here ten years later. The population was only increasing and it was only going to be more expensive to house those people ten years later than it was in that period. It is a long-term issue for the State. I am not talking about any one Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...over the past three years bring us more in line with that European context. We regulate many different industries in many different ways. What we have done over recent years is positive in the long run, although it is no doubt an additional burden on landlords. Senator Moynihan asked if that is an acceptable burden. I would say all the measures we have brought in so far are acceptable....

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...in place until at least Christmas. The very least the Government needs to do is ensure that the resources in place now to keep people safe and reassure them, and which should have been in place long before last Friday, are in place until we are able to restore Garda numbers. Despite the its best efforts, the Government, even with the financial resources it has available, has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...relation to an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks. It is imperative that they comply with any such direction. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official, either by name or in such a...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...accept that rents and house prices are too high, that after a decade of under-supply, we want to change it and take steps to ensure that prices are more affordable. How can we do that? It is with long-term supply and short-term measures. I will tackle a number of things that were said. This is why we need the report. The Opposition stated that this money will go straight into the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...other parts, particularly urban areas, is the Government's plan in Housing for All, particularly measures such as the cost-rental scheme and some of the other measures we have put in place. The long-term addition of supply will have an impact on the prevailing rents and the new model of cost rental will have an impact on the prevailing rents because it sets a rate 25% below the market...