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Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank People Before Profit for its work on tabling this motion. It is very important that this is highlighted. As was just said, there is no excuse for delays or stalling on this issue. It is an urgent area. It is cynical for this to be passed through Second Stage but for it not to be progressed as urgently as it needs to be thereafter. The position of the Social Democrats is that we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Of all the kites being flown about the budget, tax breaks for landlords is the most outrageous. Never before have rents or homelessness been so high. Never before has the number of adults stuck living in their childhood bedrooms been so high. Home ownership rates are at their lowest level in more than 50 years and the Government's answer to this litany of catastrophe is tax breaks for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is the census.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We all know this idea of tax relief for landlords is being pushed by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, whose rationale for his housing plan looks increasingly like a game of pin the tail on the donkey. Random interventions are being stuck in random places while the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government hopes the entire housing system does not collapse. Throwing even more money at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Just to follow up on that point, last night, I was at a community meeting in a newer part of my constituency where there are higher densities. The whole area was planned on the idea that the quid pro quofor higher densities would be better facilities. Despite this, 15 or 20 years since the communities were originally built, the area still does not have proper community facilities. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On that, are we not at a huge disadvantage compared to somewhere like the Netherlands, for example, where there is active land management by the local or municipal authority? Dutch authorities assemble land banks, put in some of the infrastructure up front, and then use the sale of the land back to builders for housing to fund that. The way we do it effectively means there is no active land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a question for the Office of the Planning Regulator. In her opening statement, Ms O'Connor spoke about district heating systems and said they can only happen at scale if they are planned for in development plans. I ask her to expand on that, explain why that is the case and why it is necessary to do it via the development plans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Thank you.

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to address amendments Nos. 110 onwards. I thank the Minister of State for his contribution and for considering the issues I have raised. I thank him for taking these issues seriously, for the written response he gave to the committee on the proposals and for the effort to introduce amendments to address some of the issues I have raised in respect of section 41 and the need for an...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I acknowledge that work has been done and that the concerns raised were listened to and worked on. I raised several issues. I thank the Minister of State for the offer of briefings. Given the legislative process that is ongoing, is the Minister of State still open to addressing those concerns in the remaining part of the process? Progress has...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Sherlock may be deputising but he certainly explained those issues very well and quite comprehensively. I will turn in a moment to amendment No. 28 about landscape but first I will speak about amendment No.14. It was said in the Chamber just a few minutes ago that the Government is not engaging with amendments and is not listening. That is not the case. I have often found it to be...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. On the battlefields project, I accept he cannot definitively tell me whether the revision of the record of monuments and places will cover all those battlefields. Will that substantial piece of work, the lines on maps that we talked about at length on Committee Stage, just sit there now that it is done or will it inform these revisions?...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support the amendments. The issue of public access to heritage and monuments is extremely important. I raised the matter in depth on Committee Stage. I tabled amendments on it that were designed to ensure the Bill interacts with existing legislation relating to how we can ensure access and existing routes for doing that, such as the powers of local authorities. I suggested there would...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support these amendments. It is shocking to see the British Museum is full of artefacts that, for the most part, are not British. Most have been stolen from other countries. These amendments are absolutely spot on in that heritage that belongs in different areas should be returned. That goes both ways, as Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, so I fully support this proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Census of Population (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of the populations of each division in the Garda Dublin metropolitan region as of the 2022 census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41739/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a progress update on the various school projects (both primary and secondary level) that are either in planning or construction stage in Dublin bay north; to provide a provisional timeline for when these projects are due to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41163/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the commitments made in the Programme for Government around education policy for the Irish language; what has been done to date to honour those commitments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41441/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has launched an investigation into the incident (details supplied) that took place in a homeless hostel on 2 August 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41407/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Section 28 planning guidelines for Gaeltacht areas will be published; for an update on the interdepartmental group's progress on these guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (26 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he will consider expanding the working group on planning and housing in Gaeltacht areas, to include representatives from the Irish-language community which has not yet been given this opportunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41444/23]