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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: So budget and oversight, with a directly-elected mayor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. Ward made an interesting point that transportation is quite far down that list yet for those of us who have been closer to or involved in local government, transportation seems like a very obvious area. One can understand it is not necessarily the highest priority for the general public at the moment. Housing is of course the highest priority, but are there areas like that which jump...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Would that be like taking some of the responsibility from the Department of Education and some of the responsibility that currently sits with local authorities and meeting that midway? How does something like that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Effectively, the budget and oversight for school delivery could be with a mayor's office rather than with the Department of Education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On other aspects of infrastructure, where people feel it can be delayed or slowed in dealing with a national or centralised bureaucracy, having some of those devolved to a Dublin mayor's office could work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay, I thank Ms. Farrelly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [43831/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [46599/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 20. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [46600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for updated measures to improve the provision of electric vehicle charging points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46294/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a scenario analysis post-budget 2024 for a person who is a first-time buyer, single and earning €35,000 per year and how budget 2024 affects them in housing terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46400/23]

Developer Profits Transparency Bill 2023: First Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to introduce a requirement for property developers who are in receipt of State subsidies to publish annual financial statements. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. This is a very straightforward Bill. If it is passed, it will provide transparency on the profit levels of developers who benefit from...

Developer Profits Transparency Bill 2023: First Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Cabinet Committees on which he sits. [46601/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask about new build house prices and developer profits. The ESRI has said that if the help-to-buy scheme was scrapped house prices would fall. Recent analysis by the architect Orla Hegarty has shown that in Dublin 15, in the Taoiseach's constituency, since the shared equity scheme was introduced new build house prices have increased by €92,000. BNP Paribas has stated that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 496. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 28 February 2023, whether there are plans for compensation to be offered to those who had no other option but to avail of private nursing home care with no assistance from the State; whether any further information is available for medical card holders or their next of kin who are paying fully for nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Crumlin Children's Hospital currently only has two modern ultrasound machines, when it needs four in the radiography, radiology and ultrasound department; if he is aware that there is a lack of trophan machines in the hospital; when the necessary funding will be provided for this equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide more information on the reason the increase for PhD research funding only applies to those being funded by the Science Foundation of Ireland and the Irish Research Council; if, in the interest of equality, he will expand these increases to apply to all PhD researchers with recognised funding; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new National Student Accommodation Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46636/23]