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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Jan 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1656. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed update on implementation of the new HSE health regions; if the hospital groups and CHOs have been stood down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1924/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Jan 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1657. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who undertook specialist training for general practice in each of the years from 2018 to 2024; the number who completed the training programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1925/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (22 Jan 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI will review its eligibility criteria to be classed as an independent student to account for the thousands of people who are residing at home with their parents because of the housing crisis, who are now excluded from accessing higher education due to being means tested along with their parents’ income; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have watched the Taoiseach's answers in the Dáil Chamber over the last five years. I have to say the answer he gave on housing and the 40,000 homes is one of the weakest I have ever seen him deliver in this House. He said he had a genuine belief that 40,000 homes would be delivered, based on estimates from private entities. Why did the Taoiseach completely disregard the hard data...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Ten out of ten to the Taoiseach for deflection and evasion. Where are the 40,000 homes the Taoiseach promised? Why, as Taoiseach, when it comes to housing completions data, does he accept reports from private entities and reject the data from the CSO?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why? The Taoiseach has not answered that. He failed to answer that. Is it only when it comes to housing completions in an election year that he does not listen to CSO data-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: ----- or is it when it suits him? For years, no one could trust Fianna Fáil after then Ministers Noel Dempsey and Dermot Ahern could not keep a straight face when they were denying there was going to be a bailout of the banks after the economic crash. The Taoiseach worked hard to try to rebuild trust in Fianna Fáil and he is throwing that away by going into election years and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: You did not even know what was in our housing policy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Answer the question.

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On behalf of the Social Democrats, I express our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and all the loved ones of the young man who died in the storm. The heartbreak and pain from having the life of a loved one, a young person, cut off are unthinkable. I wanted to express that sympathy. I also pay tribute to the incredible work done by the ESB and international crews in restoring...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will accept the invitation to visit a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms, if any, available for cost rental tenants to transfer property to another cost rental unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Road Traffic Offences (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooters that have been confiscated by Gardaí nationwide in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Road Traffic Offences (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooters related fines that have been issued by Gardaí nationwide in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Probate Applications (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update from the Courts Service on the progress of the e-probate project under the Courts Modernisation Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2347/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Legal Cases (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal actions taken against her Department due to a child not receiving an assessment of need within the statutory timeframe since 2020, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Legal Cases (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid out in legal fees by her Department due to legal actions being taken by parents of a child not receiving an assessment of need within the statutory timeframe since 2020, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2786/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the issue where vulnerable children are left at risk as the courts are repeatedly told that there are no available placements in either foster care or residential care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2913/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to reduce the reliance by Tusla on special emergency arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (5 Feb 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address systemic child protection issues, as outlined by the courts, in particular the lack of available placements, a shortage of qualified social workers, delays in accessing necessary support services, and therapeutic interventions; and if she will make a statement on the matter....