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Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is absolutely extraordinary that this measure is being brought in for apartments currently under construction, some of which are near completion. In the context of many of those apartments, the prices are locked in. Those purchasing them - approved housing bodies or whomever - have already agreed a price. This will create a windfall profit for developers, and that money will go straight...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sharing time with my colleagues, Deputies Aidan Farrelly and Jen Cummins. First, it shows something about how the Government respects, or disrespects, this House that not one senior Government Minister is here for this.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Indeed, Fianna Fáil Members are missing in their entirety. I wonder why they have gone into hiding. Budgets are about choices and the choices made by this Government in this budget could not be any clearer. Look after large corporations and developers at the expense of ordinary people and those who are struggling. There is no hiding or disguising it and no way to spin it. This...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The cost-of-living crisis did not end once the election was over last year. A recent report from Barnardos found that four out of ten parents skip meals or eat less to stop their children going hungry. This Government has forgotten about these families. This is a giveaway budget for property developers and owners of fast food chains. There are handouts for millionaires while ordinary...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to advocate for the immediate release of Palestinian customs income currently being withheld from the Palestinian Authority by Israel; the action he has taken to support the Palestinian banking system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52951/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a review of the criteria needed in order to obtain a primary medical certificate (PMC) set out under s 36(b)(ii) of the Finance Act 2020; if he will ensure that those with severe neurodevelopmental disabilities are not excluded from obtaining a PMC, and as a result, availing of the new grant-based scheme (formerly DDS) led by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has any plans to legislate on the issue of the lack of compensation for persons injured in non-negligent accidents on public transport, in which liability cannot be assigned to any party; if he believes that there is a role for the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland in such cases; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine a case (details supplied) in which an applicant is experiencing significant delays in their de facto partner visa application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53766/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (7 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 697. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reviewing a case (details supplied) in which a UK-trained clinical psychologist, and Irish citizen, cannot return to Ireland to practise due to administrative barriers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53767/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: When is the occupied territories Bill going to be enacted?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Tánaiste has been telling us for quite some time that he will be bringing the Bill forward very shortly and that he will be meeting the sponsor of the Bill. He has met with the sponsor of the Bill several time and that is welcome. When is it actually going to be brought forward? Surely at this stage, given everything that has happened, the Tánaiste can actually give us a firm...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: When will the Tánaiste take action to stop munitions destined for Israel going through Irish airspace?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: With respect, that is the same answer we have been getting all year. We are told that the Minister is investigating, has gotten reports and is looking into it. Munitions that are being used in a genocide are going through our Irish airspace and the Tánaiste needs to act to stop that from happening. Enough of the excuses about looking at reports, investigating and so forth; when is he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Prosecute them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: When is the Tánaiste going to stop our sovereign wealth fund from investing in companies that are trading illegally in occupied Palestinian territories?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister for Finance in a recent reply to me stated that €5.6 million of taxpayers' money is still being invested in companies operating in the occupied territories. The Tánaiste has absolutely no mandate - none whatsoever - to use our public money to invest in these companies. How can he justify this? Will he put an immediate end to this gross misuse of public funds? Will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am not looking for more information about this. We have information from the Minister for Finance. I want the Government to act. Our public money is being invested against the wishes of the Irish people in companies operating illegally in the occupied territories. You are the Tánaiste of the Government. Will you pick up the phone to the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and tell...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: You will not act.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I condemn the attack at the synagogue in Manchester. I express our solidarity with all of those affected. On behalf of the Social Democrats, I express our horror at the actions of the Israeli military. Last night, they illegally boarded the Sumud flotilla in international waters, and effectively kidnapped humanitarian activists, including at least 14 Irish citizens. They took this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I cannot under why tens of millions of euro worth of dual-use products are still being exported to Israel. I cannot why Ireland's sovereign wealth fund is still investing in companies that are trading in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. I cannot understand why the Central Bank had been facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds to fund the genocide. I cannot why...