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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats will support the motion even though our affordable housing plan, Homes Within Reach, has a number of key differences from what Sinn Féin is putting forward. Every day I campaign in my constituency, I meet people who are directly affected by the housing crisis, people who have been homeless and are afraid of becoming homeless again, renters afraid of becoming...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is their motion. I did not interrupt the Minister, but he is interrupting me.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There was not a word about what else will be done or needs to be done on affordable housing. There was a 90-second, or thereabouts, defence of the Minister's record on it. Disappointingly, there was no discussion of the challenges we face in delivering more affordable housing, as is needed. Before I was elected to this House and when I was first elected, I imagined in my naivety that in...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the immediate and urgent actions that will be taken to address the high levels of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42665/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a deposit protection scheme could be established to protect renters from having their deposits unlawfully withheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if action will be taken to increase the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42666/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide on update on the new proposed River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canal and Barrow Navigation bye-laws; if Waterways Ireland has provided any update in relation to feed and charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42642/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [43254/24]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats certainly will not be opposing these amendments. On the Land Development Agency, there is a massive gap between the initial promise put forward by Fine Gael's then Minister for housing, Eoghan Murphy, for what the Land Development Agency would deliver in terms of housing and what has transpired in the six years since then. I invite the Minister of State to speak about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sure but I am usually next in the speaking order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sure, go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, I yield.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Please go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Creed. I have a question for Home for Good but first, I thank the members who served in the Housing Commission here for all the work they did on the full report. It is very detailed. A huge amount of work went into it and it is greatly appreciated. The huge amount of work they put in by a lot of us is a very valuable piece of work, and I do not think anything like that has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 714. To ask the Minister for Health if CHO9 will be provided with funding for patient transport to hospital appointments or respite services in cases in which the patient is bed bound and requires transport on an ambulance trolley, as the cost of ambulance transfers is significant for the patient and their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42661/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [39723/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (23 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 224. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the considerations made since on the measures to consider whether exemptions can be made to the leashing and muzzling requirements for dogs that have been provided with appropriate levels of accredited training, as referred to in the April 2022 report on the control of dogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (24 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding, if any, allocated for the capital assistance scheme, in Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43665/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (24 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability; the amount of additional funding allocated for implementation of the recommendations of the adaptation grant review, in Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43666/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (24 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding allocated to support adaptation works on local authority social homes in Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43667/24]