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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: They have seen the designs and they want to participate in them. I will turn to a related conversation regarding ground floor units. In Ballymun, we have a large number of retail units that have yet to be used, which were built under the regeneration. Unfortunately, with regard to the design, the planners insist on ground floor spaces being animated by providing retail. The difficulty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: We should be doing at the very beginning when they are being planned. With particular regard to public housing that we build, that should happen at the beginning rather than waiting to be converted. The Department needs to issue stronger guidelines to Dublin City Council planners to say that where there is an oversupply, we should not be prescribing that there has to be retail at ground floor.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the targeted supports he intends to give to families for the upcoming college year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37437/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport can be issued for a child (details supplied). [37762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the anomaly in the Private Security Authority guidelines (details supplied); if consideration has been given to amending such guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 767. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme can be used in the case of a person (details supplied). [37165/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I raise the issue of lengthy waiting times for oncology services in the Mater. This issue was brought to my attention by a constituent of mine called Maura, who was referred by her GP in early February for an urgent ten-day appointment with BreastCheck. Unfortunately, it was May when she received a letter, and she was told there was a five-month waiting list for an urgent ten-day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister outlining in detail the previous work that has been done on this case. As he said, there is now confirmation by the Department of two reports of allegations of child sexual abuse. In the Minister's words, they relate to a "deceased" member of the Probation Service. Of course, this matter has also been the topic of much media coverage. The "RTÉ Investigates"...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps a redress scheme would be overly complex and result in people receiving justice delayed. Equally, we should not be placing the burden on victims of having to sue the State. That is not necessarily the best way forward. We have seen in other cases where people's only option is to sue the State and often justice is incredibly delayed. Perhaps there is a mechanism here to try to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to a Topical Issue raised on 19 October 2023, if he will outline the current total number of allegations of child sexual abuse involving any member of the Probation Service that he or his Department have been made aware of; if he has considered putting in place a non-adversarial redress scheme, if appropriate; and if...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Good morning. I thank the witnesses for being here today and for the work they do. As other speakers have said, the scale of even the issues for which the witnesses are here before us is vast. I acknowledge the scale of the work they do outside of all of that. As the nature of this committee is that we focus on things that go wrong, I just wished to highlight that. It is really...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Do you know that number?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Can Ms Nugent give me the number of treatments which were deemed to be inappropriate?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: My question is about those that were non-compliant. I will give Ms Nugent an opportunity to give me that number, please.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay, so it is not yet known.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Of those treatments which are not yet known to be compliant - this a difficult question to answer - are we examining whether those surgeries were funded by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in any way?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. Ms Nugent can reassure the committee that there was no perverse financial incentive for these surgeries to be carried out.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: As part of the review, is that being monitored in any way? We want to have a public airing of the assertion Ms Nugent has said here. We want to ensure there was no financial incentive or misuse of the NTPF in order to carry out surgeries which were deemed to be unnecessary. Ms Nugent will understand why I am asking that question.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that financial element the subject of the review, or is the review purely clinical?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I will turn to Ms Brady then. It is concerning, given the breaches that have happened in the MOU, that this concern arises. Is there a way the NTPF can establish that there was no perverse financial incentive for operations which were carried out and not needed?