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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints that have been made to the Construction Industry Register in each year since it was established; the actions or sanctions that have resulted on foot of these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of primary and secondary secular non-denominational school places in the Balgriffin area of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4167/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 354. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the medication for hyperemesis more accessible and free to pregnant women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4088/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Bill is very welcome. It replaces all the previous legislation around national monuments. The 2004 legislation, for example, will be gone. Is that the case? It is. On transitional arrangements under head 28, how long is it envisaged that they will be in place? Could it be a number of years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Head 16(3) provides for the proposed demolition of a registered monument. Can Mr. Carpenter explain who is the decision-maker in the case of a demolition? Is it that the person applies for a licence or is it through the planning process? Does it require approval from the Minister or from the National Museum? What is the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister can decide if special protection can be awarded. Can a subsequent Minister then remove that special protection status? Once it is given, is that permanently locked in? Can it be rescinded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: What are the checks and balances on that because it is a lot of power to confer on the Minister? Does all that power reside with him or her without checks and balances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome that head 30 in Part 3 makes reference to the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. I do not see any mention of the 1992 Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage of Europe, which was adopted by Ireland in 1997. Should that also be mentioned? There seems to be no reference to archaeological landscapes, including...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [3537/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: For more than a year, I have been raising with the Taoiseach the issue of standards in privately run emergency accommodation for people who are homeless. I have also raised this with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. While these are privately run homeless shelters, they are in receipt of public funds. I want to read a quote from one young woman about what she found...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Illegal Dumping (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will legislate to make illegal littering and dumping an offence under the Road Traffic Acts in order to allow gardaí impose penalty points on individuals who use their vehicles for such offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4900/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide quality learning opportunities to non-religious students in schools with a religious ethos when they opt not to participate in religious education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that workers on the front line providing essential services to persons with disabilities and their carers in section 39 organisations under the Health Act 2009 will receive the proposed once-off, tax free €1,000 bonus payment for front-line workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5089/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleagues for bringing forward this motion. I also thank the Irish Cancer Society for all the work it has done advocating on and highlighting this issue. It is welcome that the Government is not tabling a counter-motion and will support our motion. However, simply supporting it and not tabling a counter-motion is not enough. There must be action on the motion, and I have not...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the groups chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [4706/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask the Taoiseach about the Stardust inquest. The families who lost their loved ones in the Stardust have been waiting almost 41 years for truth and justice. It is completely unacceptable that their grief and trauma has been compounded by uncertainties and delays around the inquest. No venue is confirmed for when the inquest will take place and no arrangements are in place to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Tánaiste about the increase in house prices and collapse in homeownership levels. House prices have increased by 14% in the past year and homeownership levels have collapsed among people of prime working age. In the early 1990s, two thirds of people were homeowners by the age of 28. Now at that age, people are lucky to have managed to move from their parents' homes....

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have some detailed comments to make about this Bill but first I must say that I find it alarming that there are calls from the Government backbenches to sell off and privatise the ESB. Given the issues we face in terms of energy security, our climate change challenges and the cost of living, which we are now discussing, any proposals to sell off or privatise the ESB need to be strongly...