Results 601-620 of 7,163 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the obligations schools are under to accept a student in the catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rights a student has if they are refused a place at any of the available schools in their catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37194/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (19 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the rights of students to attend a school in their catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37450/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide funding and support to Dublin City Council to build social and affordable homes on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38186/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: In a follow up to the priority question tabled by Deputy Ó Broin, I ask the Minister if the Government will provide funding and supports to Dublin City Council to build social and affordable homes on the lands at Oscar Traynor Road.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response and his comments. I agree with his previous comments that there needs to be consensus on this issue. A non-adversarial approach is the way to proceed. There needs to be quick delivery. That is a strong view in the local community. Beyond that we need housing delivered on this site and on others. There is full agreement on that. The Minister has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Proposals to develop this in the best interests of the local community so there is a decent amount of affordable homes that can be purchased and rented, as well as the social housing element, will require, for example, approval from central government and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to draw down significant funding from the European Investment Bank. Is the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is agreement in this House about wanting delivery of homes. Most of us want the same thing. The proposals that were voted down by councillors, including from the Minister's party, would have resulted in about half the site almost certainly going to an institutional investor and some of those homes effectively being rented back to the State under HAP. We know that there is planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the review and the commitment that has been made to expand Housing First. Will this review examine the changes that have been made in the past year or so in the increased use of private hostel operators who have been contracted to provide accommodation for people who have become homeless? These operators, in the main, do not provide support services with the accommodation. Is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that inspects private homeless hostels to ensure support services for persons who have become homeless are provided and to ensure that standards are met in the delivery of these support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Quality Standards Framework will be implemented in private hostels that have been contracted to provide accommodation for persons who have become homeless; the way in which this will be implemented given the absence of professional support workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his assessment of the cost effectiveness of the use of long-term leasing as a method of Part V delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38483/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown in the first half of 2020 of Part V units acquired or leased by local authority area by the number of units that were leased and the number that were purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections of homeless services that have been completed under the national quality standards framework by local authority area; if the inspections included private operators of emergency accommodation; the outcomes of the inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts for new hostel accommodation for persons who become homeless from 1 January 2019 to date that have been awarded to private providers; the number awarded to not-for-profit NGO providers; the criteria used for selecting operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections that have been carried out to ensure compliance with the national quality standards framework in emergency accommodation in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of full-time staff dedicated to inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the permanent site allocated for a school (details supplied) will be fully available to the school by September 2022; the timeframe for the school temporarily using this site to be given its own permanent location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38371/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for coming in today; it is appreciated. There are two areas on which I wish to ask questions. First, this is a very significant Bill in terms of what it is doing to facilitate wind turbines and actions being taken around climate. That is very welcome and significant. In addition to having a climate change crisis, we also have a biodiversity crisis, and it is that...

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sharing time with Deputy Cairns. I commend her on bringing forward this motion and I thank all the Deputies from the different groupings for their contributions to the debate. It is regrettable that Government time was not set aside for this important debate and that it must instead be taken in the limited time available for Private Members' business. Government members often say that...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support the contributions made by other Opposition Deputies. It is to our credit, as a country, that our approach in general on Brexit has been quite united and quite agreed, which contrasts sharply with what is happening across the water. It is a shame there is not agreement between the Opposition and the Government on this. The prudent approach would be to take this out of the Bill....