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

Cian O'Callaghan: If we could get some of these sites activated, that could lead to 220 or 230 cost rental homes a year being delivered. What measures would help to activate them? What measures at local or national level could be taken to help local authorities activate some of these unused planning permissions? This is a key issue across the country, with approximately 80,000 unactivated planning...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Should penalties or disincentives be considered for people who have planning permissions but are not activating them?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: If there are no apartments being built by private developers who have all these planning applications, we cannot get less than zero if penalties are put in place to encourage people to stop sitting on planning permissions or to release the land to people who can make it viable.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses from Cork City Council for their replies. As regards Galway city, lower delivery is anticipated this year in terms of the build of social houses. It will be coming in at about 154 or 158 homes. The reasons cited by the witnesses are the number of delays on a local authority site, a turnkey site and an AHB site. Is there anything that could be done to reduce or...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: A certain level of delays in construction projects is not unusual. In order to meet targets, does there need to be headroom so that one would be planning to deliver a larger number of builds than the target and, as such, if there is a delay on a project or two, one would still come in at the target? Is that a realistic approach that should be taken? Has the council just been very unlucky...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: If the targets were to be set higher and the council was going to be delivering more, what would it need as a local authority to do that? What support would it need? What challenges would it need help to address?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Staffing resources, including technical staffing resources, is a key challenge.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Energy Prices (12 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 231. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that is available for community centres to help them meet their additional energy bills this winter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50476/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Energy Prices (12 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 232. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be provided for a community centre (details supplied) in order that it will be able to afford its energy bills this winter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50477/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (11 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that trainee educational and child psychologists receive the same salary and educational funding as trainee clinical psychologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the special education teaching hours for a school (details supplied) in order that they can continue to provide the support needed by the parents of the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that in-person appointments return to the immigration service delivery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks to the setting-up of the independent radiation therapist review; if he will commit to implementing the recommendations, if any, which could emanate from the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49575/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No.1: In page 6, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “Referendum on the Right to Water 5. The Minister shall, not later than 6 months after the passage of this Act, lay a report before the Oireachtas Committee that— (a) proposes the wording for a referendum on the public ownership of water infrastructure, (b) sets out a timeline for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister of State said, we had a report in 2017 report and we have a commitment to a referendum in the programme for Government. It is now five years since the report was published and more than five years since most people felt this matter had been settled and consensus was achieved on the need for a referendum to provide assurance in the Constitution that our water infrastructure...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Just so I am clear, the situation is that when there is a proposed wording, that then goes to the Cabinet and to Government. It is at that point that a decision is formally made on whether to proceed to a referendum, and either outcome is possible. The Cabinet and the Government will be within their rights to decide collectively that they do not want to go with that wording and not have a...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: "The introduction of the 10% levy on all concrete products is the actions [sic] of a 'rogue' Government." These are not my words, but the words of the chairperson of the International and Small Business Alliance, ISBA, Mr. Seamus Maye, who says that there is no excuse for quarries and concrete producers not being held to account for the mica building block crisis. The Government is gung-ho...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The contributions we heard recently from Government backbenchers on this subject have been meaningful and considered. They have made some valid comments on vacancy, dereliction, the problem of local authorities not using the one-stage approval process for social housing projects worth under €6 million, and the contrast between what local authorities are saying and what the Department...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It appears from the Taoiseach's comments earlier that he is now okay with family homes being traded by investment funds as a financial asset. Let us be very clear about what is happening. Investment funds bought up homes at inflated prices, reducing the supply for individuals and families trying to buy homes and increasing prices at the same time. They then secured long-term leases...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €500 stipend increase to students completing their PhDs under Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council will be available to those PhD candidates working in Irish universities who have other sources of funding such as direct funding from the university itself; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48507/22]