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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It was reactive, and it was not necessarily done as best practice or as the best model. It was undertaken as a reaction to a set of circumstances which meant that change had to happen. In and of itself, that example does not necessarily justify replication in this regard.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. If the board does not have that role then what is the oversight mechanism? If there are problems with the process and decisions are being made then who has oversight? If the board feels that there are problems is it constrained and can it not do anything about them? Where does the role of the board start and stop?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the board have no role whatsoever?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: What can the board do if it believes there is something wrong with the process? Does the board have a mechanism in such a case?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an estimation is being carried out of the greenhouse gas emissions savings if bottom trawling is banned or limited to certain areas in Ireland's exclusive economic zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53470/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The figures from the Residential Tenancies Board show that rent caps have been breached in every county in Ireland where they have been introduced. Figures given to me by the Residential Tenancies Board also confirm that sanctions against landlords for breaching rent caps have only been applied in about 10% of the cases investigated. Clearly, rent caps are not working. It is not just the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a fasttrack one-stop-shop framework for planning and licensing as was recommended by the Just Transition Commissioner in his progress report dated April 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52100/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there has been an environmental assessment carried out on the importation of peat; if not, if he will conduct one; if so, if he will publish the details of the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52101/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 253. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA will make available a map and the details of land that NAMA holds by location, size, planning permission and commercial viability analysis; the details of its property portfolio locations and vacant units; the details of the person or body NAMA is selling its property to and the amount; if NAMA receivers are evicting any tenants; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the fresh start principle as outlined in Housing for All will come into operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53253/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 412. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52099/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 917. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place for persons who cannot take any of the Covid-19 vaccines for medical reasons and have not contracted Covid-19 to be able to dine indoors. [52460/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce individual risk assessments for blood donations as per the policy in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52104/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 896. To ask the Minister for Health when he will give special recognition to the work of frontline healthcare workers over the course of the pandemic; when measures in relation to same will be implemented; the form this recognition will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 930. To ask the Minister for Health the process available for persons who have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine but have been advised on medical grounds not to get the second dose of the same vaccine; the persons or bodies such persons can contact to resolve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which capital funding for Howth harbour in 2021 is being spent under the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53014/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am delighted there was some good news at the end of the Minister of State's contribution. Perhaps he could have expanded on it. I apologise for being late. I came straight from making a short contribution in the Dáil. I want to make a few points on amendments Nos. 73 to 77, inclusive, 79 and 81. I will also comment on several points the Minister of State has just made. The idea...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will come back in on a point I did not get a response to. The Minister said that amendment No. 74 was silent on Article 5 of the marine spatial planning directive. However, as I have said, amendment No. 74 specifically mentions Article 5 of the marine spatial planning directive. The Minister of State might explain or withdraw his comments in that regard.