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Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: That will be my last word on it if the Acting Chairman lets me sit down.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Not at all. That will be my last word on the matter if I am allowed to sit down.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [26647/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (28 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will refuse to grant licenses for live hare coursing for the upcoming season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33628/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage and a member of the Business Committee. My understanding from the discussion at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage is that the members of the committee are more than happy to meet next week for six, seven, eight or nine hours, or however long it takes to go through...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority has the power to add additional criteria to the definition of homelessness as expressed in sections 2 and 10 of the Housing Act 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority has the power to refuse to provide emergency accommodation to a person who cannot provide proof of exhausting all other accommodation options, including family mediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority has the power to refuse to provide emergency accommodation to a person who has been made homeless because of rent arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority has the power to refuse to provide emergency accommodation to a person who has been made homeless because of anti-social behaviour in a previous tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grounds, if any, on which a local authority can refuse to provide emergency accommodation to someone who presents as homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that is being taken to address quarries that are producing substandard building materials that give rise to serious structural defects in homes, given the statement by an expert witness at the Oireachtas housing committee in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34963/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (30 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the National HSE disability office group that is being set up to develop a revised approach to assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35072/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (30 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the updated timeline for the resumption of preliminary team assessments given the March 2022 High Court judgment stating that the assessment of need standard operating procedure failed to comply with the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35073/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: There has been no explanation from the Government as it seeks to rush through this legislation, and no explanation as to why quarries are still operating in Ireland producing substandard materials that are going into homes leaving families, communities and the entire State vulnerable. There has been no explanation from the Government regarding why the quarries that have produced substandard...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: In some parts of the country renters have been hit with staggering rent increases of up to 75%. This is utterly unacceptable and no renter can afford those kinds of increases. The way in which the rent pressure zones rules have been written means that those parts of the country will never be declared a rent pressure zone. Is the Tánaiste aware of this problem, what is the Government...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the motion and thank my colleague, Deputy Cairns, for bringing it forward. I welcome everyone watching today in the Gallery and elsewhere. This is a very important motion highlighting the huge inequalities, injustices and exclusion faced by people with disabilities. All of us as Deputies are hugely aware of the impact of this on people with disabilities. We hear from people with...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will first make some comments on the additional parts the Minister has announced today. I completely understand that this work must be done. It is very difficult, however, in terms of the legislative process and the scrutiny process, for us to engage with that in detail when all we have at this point are the introductory comments made by the Minister. We do not have the detail. I...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The list of people on the NSAI review group of industry standard 465 reads like a who's who of the industry. I question whether there is sufficient independence in that. What measures are in place to ensure they are sufficiently independent and not tied in with many of those industry representatives in the group? Where are the measures to ensure sufficient international experience and...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 49: In page 14, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(1) The Minister shall request an updated Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland report on construction costs for the Defective Concrete Block Grant Scheme in advance of the opening of the scheme, based on appropriate regional or county-based costings. The Minister may also amend the terms...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of actions contained in the National LGBT Strategy that remain incomplete; if he will provide a list of the incomplete actions; the reason that each action is incomplete; the expected timeline for their full completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36360/22]