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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: My question was about the Government missing its own targets.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: In recent weeks we have seen queues of hundreds of people, renters, who have been going for viewings. We have had reports of a student being asked for intimate photographs from a landlord. We have had students who cannot find anywhere to live who are sleeping rough. We have had a homeless woman who is sleeping in her car on a beach and having to wash in the sea as she has nowhere else to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [36170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (14 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the Programme for Government commitment to provide a comprehensive policy for the Irish language from pre-primary education to teacher education for all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (14 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding will be renewed for a programme (details supplied) in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Coastal Protection (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the national coastal change management strategy steering group; the number of times that the group has met since its formation; the current membership of the group; the issues that it has considered; when the group’s findings will be presented to Government and published; if coastal communities...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new affordable purchase units that have been delivered in quarter 1 of 2022; the number of affordable purchase units currently in delivery; the projected total delivery of affordable purchase units in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the new affordable purchase units that have been delivered in quarter 1 of 2022 including the location of delivery; the number of affordable purchase units provided at each location; the average purchase price; and the delivery provider in tabular form. [38889/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the new affordable purchase units provided in quarter 1 of 2022; the number of new builds, acquisitions, turnkeys and other delivery mechanisms in tabular form. [38890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the new affordable purchase units that have been delivered in the four Dublin local authority areas in quarter 1 of 2022, in tabular form. [38891/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have a full-time vacant homes officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in fines that has been paid to the European Commission for planning failures at the Derrybrien wind farm to date; when the daily fines will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of departmental reports that are pending publication; the titles of these reports; the expected publication dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of serviced sites fund, affordable housing funding and affordable purchase homes that have been completed and offered for sale since January 2022; the details of their location, unit size and sale price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38895/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 591. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans under consideration to move to a competitive tendering process for youth services; if analysis on the way that this would impact on youth services has been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38854/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 6 July 2022, the 17 actions from the National LGBTI+ Strategy that have been completed to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38868/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 12 is about measures to allow flexibility for emerging technologies to be extended to large-scale residential developments. I have a real difficulty understanding the rationale behind the amendment in the context of large-scale residential developments. They are not like wind farms which can have a delay between the granting of planning permission and the commencement of the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: If this is about attenuation ponds and solar panels, why is the Bill not restricted to those areas? Why are there no protections or safeguards in the Bill for that? The Bill is wide open and the way it is written means it could apply to anything at all in a large-scale residential development. If that is the case, why are there no restrictions or safeguards?

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, companies that do short-term lets like Airbnb make hundreds of millions of euro in profit. That is why places like Barcelona that take this seriously subject them to fines of approximately €600,000 for breaches. The Minister of State thinks a fine of €5,000 is somehow going to cut it but it is not. On RPZs, I urge the Minister of State to look at this because it...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 4: In the second line of the definition of “relevant property”, proposed to be inserted by section 2(c), to delete “and is located in a rent pressure zone”.