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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Service will next meet. [55338/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask about child homelessness and protections for renters. The Taoiseach has consistently stated that the no-fault ban on evictions last year did not work. However, last December, after the eviction ban was introduced, the number of children growing up without a home dropped for the first time in 11 months, and for three months in a row the number of children who were homeless fell....

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats will be supporting the Bill. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. If anything, and I mean this in a constructive fashion, we think the Bill is too weak. As the Deputies in Sinn Féin have said, this is a modest proposal. We would like to see the situation in place in most European countries, and there is nothing radical about this at all. People...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are you calling for it?

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We can look at the entire Bill with the view that the role being created is simply not strong enough. It is unthinkable that the mayor would not be able to appoint their own staff in their own office. I cannot think you would have a directly elected mayor in other jurisdictions with legislative provisions like this. Maybe the Minister of State will tell us what other countries have these...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is a discussion about whether a mayor who is directly elected by the people of Limerick will be able to appoint the staff in his or her immediate office. We are talking about five staff. There is no city anywhere in the world in which the directly elected mayor cannot appoint his or her own staff. The norm is that directly elected mayors are responsible for the appointment and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a birth certificate has not been accepted as part of the foreign birth registration process whereby the applicants' grandparents are Irish citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme, given there has been no pension increase since 2008, and many persons in receipt of CIÉ pensions are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 20 September 2023, her attention has been drawn to an ongoing pension issue (details supplied); if she will engage with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to address these issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is important that everyone can access public transport safely. At Clongriffin DART station, there is an urgent need for safe, universal public access to be provided for commuters from Baldoyle. Recently, a decision was taken by a developer to close this access after midnight. This means that shift workers returning home on the night bus are cut off from getting back to their homes in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed amendments to the Housing Act 1988 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55628/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Services has been transferred to the LDA; the number of residential units held by NARPS; the value of these properties; the number of these properties currently in social housing leasing arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56090/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills can schools be allowed flexibility with regard to height levels for fences for play areas that are installed, taking into account local circumstances and conditions including proximity to roads; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56146/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average HAP payment per recipient funded by the Exchequer; the average cost to the State, per recipient, net of differential rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the gross and net average cost to the State per HAP recipient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's examination of the creation of a system of holding rental deposits as set out in housing policy objective 2.12 of Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of homes delivered though the Croí Cónaithe (cities) scheme to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56092/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications for the Croí Cónaithe towns grant; the number approved and the number of drawdowns, broken down by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of job vacancies that are currently yet to be filled at An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 21 April 2021, the current status of the programme for Government commitment to incentivise local authorities to bring forward pilot participatory budgeting projects; when details of same will be announced; the funding mechanism to be put in place; and if he will make a statement...