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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is this consistent across different counts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just what is set out in legislation. Are there any kind of guidelines on top of that or anything like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Where are those guidelines that are issued available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are they available to the public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be published for the election coming up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be available online before counts take place? Is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be available on the Department's website?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask for some clarity on the issue of the 50 m at the entrance to polling places. There is often a little confusion about that. I notice that the Department's language is "entrance to polling places". That means it is not the boundary or curtilage of the building or grounds but the actual entrance to the polling place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does that mean the entrance to the building, the area within the building that is the polling area, or the entrance to the grounds in which the building or polling place is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The entrance to the grounds of the polling place-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is within 50 m of the entrance but certainly not of the boundary down the road. It is from the entrance point where people walk in and out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My perception is that perhaps it was more strictly enforced in the past and there is a little bit of ambiguity as to from where the rules apply and so forth. In terms of the process being fair, one would not want a situation where there was an outcome with one vote in it and someone said "There were posters right outside" and so on. It is an area that needs to be looked at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is also the question on the whole area of misinformation, which may be for the Department or the commission. I have been contacted by constituents who complained about misinformation - not online but in leaflets - and about things that are just not factually correct all. People are quite concerned about this and quite upset about it. Is there any recourse for them at all or is there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Returning to my question, if someone receives a leaflet and there is blatant misinformation in it, is there no recourse such a person can take? That is the question I have been asked. This is where constituents get leaflets which contain blatant misinformation. These are not views which they disagree with but is stuff printed as facts which is blatantly untrue. Is there anything they can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Minister about childcare and core funding. Parents with children in the Little Rainbows crèche in my constituency were told by the operator this summer that the operator was withdrawing from core funding and increasing its fees. The increased fees are simply not sustainable or affordable for many of the parents, forcing some of them to choose whether they can continue...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 481. To ask the Minister for Health if the new emergency department for Beaumont Hospital has proceeded to the developed design stage; if an application for planning permission has been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made, if any, on the delivery of the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38036/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on including metachromatic leukodystrophy in the national newborn bloodspot screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38292/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the enactment of the National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38293/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Never before has the opportunity or the need for action from Government to address the housing crisis been so great and never before has the opportunity for Government to address the housing crisis been so great. The Housing Commission in its report published in May stated very clearly that we need 60,000 new homes a year to be delivered. Currently only about half of that is being...