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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55337/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Time and again, the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council has warned that the lack of affordable housing is a key risk to the economy. It is absolutely infuriating for individuals and families who work hard to save up to buy homes to see vulture funds swooping in to snatch them up. In Belcamp Manor in Balgriffin, 85% of the housing estate has been bought by the investment arm of...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for putting forward this very important motion. It is not an unrealistic expectation that the Minister would engage more seriously when these motions are put forward. I do not mean the Minister of State currently present in the Chamber: I mean the senior Minister who has left. In a situation of record homelessness that is higher than ever seen before in the...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Khaled Kamal Abdel Aziz Rashwan was 34 years old. Rose Ramez Amin Hassouna was 21 years old. Samir Rajab Muhammed Al-Saafin was 62 years old. Amr Mostafa Amin Nofal was 12 years old. Maria Amjad Majed Abu Odeh was five years old. Fatima Muhammad Ali Abu Omra was 91 years old. Janan Hamed Nasser Al-Astal was one year old. Every single person that has been killed in Gaza has a name, a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Birth Certificates (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person cannot apply for a certificate of freedom to marry abroad due to not having access to their long-form birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2660/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the report into the warmth and wellbeing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2752/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many asylum seekers have been asked to leave IPAS accommodation since the beginning of 2022, broken down by county and month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 613. To ask the Minister for Health what progress is being made to introduce animal testing replacements in favour of non-animal methods; what transparency exists in animal testing under the Health Products Regulatory Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2659/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the LDA for coming in and Mr. Coleman for his opening statement and reports on its work. First, the issue of the creation of sustainable communities was discussed quite a bit, as was the environmental aspect of it, which is very important. There are other parts of sustainable communities such as community facilities, infrastructure, amenities, schools, etc. For quite some time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the area of tenure mix and affordable purchase, the LDA is saying that generally, apartments are much more likely to be cost rental because of the finance model and the price at which those lands may have been acquired and so forth. It is Government and national policy to promote sustainable and compact development. I often hear from people who say they would like to be able to move out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the LDA's overall model, it can make sense to have affordable purchase-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----and more cost rental and so forth. It will not necessarily mean we will get less cost rental in the wider scheme of things. It could mean more in more locations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On large projects, I will again reference Clongriffin because I am familiar with it. When the LDA goes into existing communities such as that, how does it do community engagement? Who does it consult and engage with? What sort of timeline is it on? Will Mr. Coleman talk us through that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the LDA do that for every project or its larger projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the LDA take that approach for larger projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask for one point of clarification. Sometimes, developers, when they are building big projects for example, talk about having some community facilities with it, but what they are actually talking about is communal facilities for the people who go into their development but that are closed off to the rest of the community. When the LDA talks about community facilities in a project, is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 17 January 2024, if she will provide a map in pdf form of the school planning areas that make up the constituency of Dublin bay north; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3438/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an ongoing campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to review the teaching through Irish-medium allowance; if she will engage with the organisation on this issue with the view to introducing a fairer and more equal system for Irish-medium teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3439/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise parents in an area who are outside the school planning area for both of their closest schools (details supplied) and are left with no alternative; if these schools have discretion to allow students in this situation to apply, despite falling outside the catchment, where no equivalent school is available; and if she will make...