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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: What do we need to do to get local authorities to do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy McAuliffe touched on the point that some of the local authorities seem to be reluctant to do this. The Minister is almost touching on it by saying we need to encourage local authorities to do it. I think we are all agreed that there needs to be more involvement by local authorities in this. What can the Minister do and what will he do to encourage them to put a fire under them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are issues with that for some local authorities, however.

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before the debate was adjourned, I was making the point that according to the 2001 survey published by the Heritage Council, 34% of the State's archaeological monuments had been destroyed since 1840. The survey found the destruction was continuing at an alarming rate. Once a monument is destroyed, it is gone forever; it can never be brought back. We have seen such destruction in Wood Quay...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for DEIS schools to assist with the cost of school tours; if she will consider implementing such a scheme to assist schools and parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on how much of the Department of Housing's budget for 2022 was returned to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently availing of the services in each long-Covid clinic; the total funding available for long-Covid clinics; the breakdown of the funding allocated to each clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19063/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank everyone who has come in for all the work they are doing in this important area. I have a few more things to ask about timber framing and taller buildings. Some people might have concerns about timber frames in taller buildings. What are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The interesting thing is that if we go back far enough, in this city, nearly everything was built out of wood. That was stopped because of the reasons relating to fire. Much more recently, there were, unfortunately, some high-profile cases, maybe built around 15 years ago or a little bit longer, which had issues with how they were built and the fire separations not being put in properly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Given that we do not have any high-profile cases in terms of timber frame construction going wrong in the last ten or 15 years, I wonder if it is being documented. Are we in a situation where we can say there were very serious mistakes in 2004 and 2005 but since then we have had successful, well-built timber frame housing? Given that, we could look at greater heights with more confidence....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to ask SOLAS a question. Can we hear a bit more about getting more people into construction technician or retrofit courses? How does it tie in with modern methods of construction, MMC? Does SOLAS have modelling or projections for the impact on traditional wet trade apprenticeships if there is as huge increase in the volume of modern methods of construction, off-site...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a short question on that. Some of those things have been apparent for a long time. The models have not been updated. What needs to happen for those things to be updated to the needs of 2023? Much of it is based on models that made sense several decades ago but have not made as much sense in recent times. It used to be an attractive option for people who might have left school...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill. Historic monuments are a hugely important part of our heritage. Where there is public access to monuments, it must be protected. Aideen's Grave in Howth is a megalithic tomb where walking groups with local guides have been told by the new corporate landowner that they are no longer welcome to visit it....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity process, the selection process for the initial pilot phase areas; the number of phases included under the guidelines of the process; the number of schools that have undergone successful reconfiguration and divestment since 2012; the target for Divestment under this process by 2030; if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations on service charges and sinking funds - under Sections 18.17 and 19.9 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 - which, as per Housing for All, were supposed to be introduced by Quarter 4 of 2022, will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20953/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I have a number of questions. Is the market valuation of a site based on the average for the type of site or area or is it what the landowner paid for the site?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: If someone paid what might be considered over the odds, which in a way it is not because it is a market transaction, the full over the odds price will not be captured by this. It would be a baseline below it. This is quite difficult. Whatever someone pays is, by definition, the market price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: With regard to existing use value, and to follow up on the previous question, it goes the whole way back. I think for most zoning, the first development plans were in the 1960s. Is that correct? It was before my time. The first Dublin development plan zoning came in around that time. We are talking about cases where the land has never developed, going the whole way back to that existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is tied to the most recent zoning decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is the current development plan that is relevant.

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