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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (1 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent record levels of persons accessing emergency accommodation; the action that he is taking to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of local authority-leased homes, broken down by local authority between new first tenancies and existing properties, including leases by bodies such as the Dublin region homeless executive, for the period 2017 to Q2 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59939/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of part V lease agreements that have been agreed to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59998/22]

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I join with others in welcoming everyone in the Gallery and everyone watching these proceedings. I wish to make several points, the first following on from where Deputy Ó Ríordáin finished in respect of ensuring this never happens again. This afternoon, we had representatives from the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office, NBCMSO, the National Standards...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. Based on what she said, there is a lack of a sense of urgency on this. There is a sense of complacency. I will talk about the housing aspect of this issue and how this is affecting the shortage and the crisis we have in teaching staff. It is not just affecting those in the education sector but key workers in healthcare and across our...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are local authorities saying they will not do any more tenant in situpurchases without proper guidance issuing from the Government on it. I ask the Taoiseach about district heating systems and communal heating systems. I have raised them with him before. The Government has said no one should be cut off this winter. Figures I have been given show 20% of tenants on prepay meters with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: What about those with district heating systems?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of change of use planning applications for short-term lets received by each local authority since the beginning of 2019; and the number of these that were granted permission in tabular form. [61237/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (7 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the Government’s position on the ongoing pandemic treaty negotiations; if he will ensure that Ireland advocates for an equitable distribution of life-saving medicine across the world; his views on the fact that the current international healthcare architecture is broken and puts the lives of the poor at risk; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Minister for Health when the new and expanded emergency department at Beaumont Hospital is expected to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61446/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister will be aware, the population of Beaumont's catchment area has expanded massively since the hospital first opened, in 1987. While the healthcare staff in the emergency department do tremendous work in stressful and challenging conditions, the promise of a much-needed new and expanded emergency department has not been honoured to date. When can we expect work on the new,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for the reply. The people I talk to in my constituency every week, many of whom are elderly, tell me that despite the excellent work done by the staff in the emergency department, they are left waiting for hours in overcrowded conditions. They can be left on chairs and may not even be able to get a trolley. Elderly people who go into the emergency department in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for the reply. When the hospital and its emergency department opened, the population in the area was much smaller. There has been significant growth in the population of the catchment area of Beaumont over the years, and that is one reason the works are very much overdue. They need to be progressed as quickly as possible as one element of the infrastructure needed at...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is 45 minutes.

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The way the Government is handling this legislation confuses me as it is unclear to me what it has absolute contempt for. Is it absolute contempt for the legislative process, democracy and the idea of pre-legislative scrutiny by the Oireachtas committee and scrutiny by the Dáil? Is it absolute contempt for the environment, water and biodiversity? Is it absolute contempt for compliance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I very much welcome Mr. Byrne's comments. That is very important. The reality at the moment is that not only does the RTB not assist with finding an address, all of that burden is also put on the tenant or renter. Then, when they find the address, they can still encounter problems with the RTB maybe not accepting that address and the threshold of proof it is looking for. For example, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It would be useful if, after the meeting, Mr. Byrne could provide in writing more information about those thresholds of proof and what the differences are that the RTB has to operate under. If that is a reality, it is important that people at least understand it and then we can see whether there are measures that can be taken to improve or address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: If someone has made a complaint and the investigations unit has taken it up and findings have been made, then surely this is the same complaint at the point it is passed over to enforcement unit, which should accept the same threshold of proof. If the Garda accepts something as proof of address, for example, why is the enforcement section of the RTB not accepting it as proof of address? Why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am referring to enforcement proceedings after determinations are made. People will have gone through that entire process and are then told by the RTB that it will close the process in the following number of weeks if it is not satisfied with the address side of things.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in view of action 22.5 in the Housing for All Updated Action Plan published in November 2022 the action that he will take to address the ongoing ESB utilities delays for new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60245/22]