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Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [39724/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chief Whip for that summary. Is there a timeframe for the occupied territories Bill? Regarding the Finance Bill’s scheduling, there are reports that the Bill will go to the finance committee on 5 November. Will the Chief Whip give us a guarantee that this schedule will be adhered to? If she is not able to give us a cast-iron guarantee, what procedures would the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: With regard to the review of rail services I want to ask about access to railway stations. At Clongriffin station there is an urgent need to provide safe, universal and permanent access for commuters from Baldoyle. The temporary access, which the Minister visited earlier this year, was opened in 2010 and has yet to be replaced with permanent access. For 14 years, the local community has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask about our airspace. We have all seen the barbaric and heartbreaking scenes coming from Gaza and Lebanon, where hospitals are burning, schools are razed to the ground and children are buried alive under the rubble. The Ditch has reported on at least nine flights carrying weapons of slaughter travelling through Irish airspace. It should not be up to small news websites to monitor...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What are you doing is the question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a couple of questions for the Minister, and then I want to raise something on the housing adaptation grants. With these Supplementary Estimates, the combination for homelessness, subhead A13, will be €385 million in 2024 and the amount budgeted for 2025 is just €303 million in comparison. This seems to be happening every year, where the amount budgeted for homeless...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In budget 2025, the total Exchequer capital funding for housing is €3.2 billion. With the Estimates for this year it is €3.466 billion when you add the different bits together. That is projecting €250 million lower for 2025 than the sum for 2024. It is a somewhat different type of expenditure but it seems we are projecting a lower overall capital spend for next year...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the revised housing targets be ready to go to Cabinet next week?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is a few weeks away.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. On housing adaptations grants, I welcome the additional funding there. It is very much needed and these grants are very important. Fewer grants have been awarded in 2024 than in 2010. Since 2010, there has been a huge growth of almost 300,000 in our population in terms of people aged 65 years and older. There is a huge need here. ALONE put in freedom of information...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that safe permanent access to Clongriffin DART station is provided for residents of Baldoyle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take action ensure the DART+ Coastal North project retains direct DART services to Howth, Sutton, and Bayside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42064/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take action to improve rail infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42066/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It goes to the Cabinet sub-committee first.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will visit a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41008/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [39726/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Taoiseach about the well-being of students in Gaelcholáiste Reachrann. As I am sure he would agree, the staff in this great coláiste are very dedicated. The students have been left in prefabs for more than 20 years, however, having been promised permanent school buildings. That is more than 20 years of waiting. There are students in prefab classrooms every day without...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [39725/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I join with the comments of other speakers about Michael Reade. I very much enjoyed any of the times I appeared on his show. He was a very fair broadcaster and will be sadly missed. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the DART+ Coastal North project. On 21 May 2024, at Cabinet, the Taoiseach gave approval to this project, which could result in the loss of DART direct services for...

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The fundamental tenet of this Bill, which is to continue the exclusion of people who do not have degrees in terms of electing the Seanad, is completely and utterly wrong and indefensible. It is outstanding really that this Government feels comfortable bringing forward such a Bill. It is antidemocratic, elitist and archaic. There was nothing in the Minister of State's speech that defended...