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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is welcome to hear the Aire Stáit's passion and interest in this area. I have something in common with him, in that I spent a lot of time having discussions with my poor dad. He did not agree with me on anything. Perhaps if we had done an exchange at that stage, there might have been more in common. I welcome the leadership that my colleague Aidan Farrelly has shown on raising...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On behalf of the Social Democrats, I extend sympathies to Deputy Lawlor. Fine Gael has been in government for nearly 15 years. That is 15 years of promises, plans and press conferences with Ministers donning hard hats, 15 years spent turning the housing crisis into a housing disaster. Under the Tánaiste's watch, house prices have almost doubled, skyrocketing rents have more than...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Fine Gael promised 40,000 homes in the last election campaign. That was a complete and utter fabrication and now it is making its annual housing target disappear because it cannot stand over its record and it does not want accountability on it. Since Fine Gael took office, rents and house prices have soared to record levels, home ownership levels have collapsed and now more than 5,200...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why will the Minister for housing not be here this evening?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Where is he going?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Did he not get enough training from Ivan Yates to debate people this evening?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government has said time and again that there should be an appropriate school place for every child. I am contacted constantly by parents who are desperately trying to get a place for their child in an autism class. The same as any other parent, they just want their child to be able to thrive. Stapolin Educate Together National School in Baldoyle has asked to open two additional new...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [60924/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to raise the issue of the redress scheme for the survivors of the fire at the Stardust. It has been more than 44 years since the devastating fire at the Stardust when 48 young people never came home. The State apology and the redress scheme for the families who lost loved ones are very welcome. However, there is growing frustration that the redress scheme for survivors is not yet up...

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [60923/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We do need to look at the facts, and the Tánaiste knows them well. The Government published a report this week saying that to meet housing demand alone, we need at least 50,000 additional construction workers. The Tánaiste also knows the facts about our ageing population. Again, the report pointed to the situation that we will soon have a reduction in the numbers in our workforce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Where in the economy can we do with fewer people?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We need more people to build homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Ireland should be a country where every child is safe going to bed at night. The attack on the home of the women and children in Drogheda at the weekend shocked the nation. People are asking how has it come to this, and how could anyone try to burn and kill children while they sleep. It is vitally important that all of us show leadership. Words matter. The Tánaiste's words...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We need these workers to keep our public services running, to ensure our elderly are cared for, to keep businesses open and to keep tax revenues flowing. Has the Tánaiste thought this through? Which sectors of the economy will he be targeting for reductions in migrant workers?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The figures we just heard in terms of the profits for the two publicly-listed developers are extremely high gross profit levels. In the middle of a housing crisis where there are huge issues with affordability and people accessing housing, they do not need additional subsidies that increase their profits further. There are a couple of principles in terms of any kind of subsidies that are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response. I have a few points. On the issue of productivity, we have a very serious productivity issue in this country in the construction sector. It is bordering on market failure in terms of very high profit levels for developers but extremely low private sector investment in technology, modern methods of construction and capital machinery that is used in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On what the Minister said about this measure increasing profitability, it is reasonable to ask what level of profitability is needed because we have gross profitability in the sector from the two main publicly-listed companies of more than 21%. How much higher does profitability need to go to make the activity viable? That is a very high profit level. Why does the Minister think we need...