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Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also welcome this. It is very important. Like others, I have spoken to people who have been treated absolutely abysmally by some of these credit servicing firms. These include people who have been harassed or who have tried to get out of the situation and tried to sell. On contacting the firms to say they want to sell, they have been told that if they want to talk about that, then they...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State to reconsider this. The case for this amendment has been made strongly. Yesterday in the audiovisual room, Members of the House from Opposition and Government parties heard directly from women who are survivors of domestic abuse and have gone through horrendous situations. They spoke passionately about the lack of support for them and the lack of refuge places...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I endorse Deputy Nash's request for that commitment from the Minister of State that he will look at this and work on getting a solution to it. It would be very welcome if he would do that. I will make a point to him. I accept his bona fides in what he is saying about the Supreme Court ruling on the Zalewski case. What is pertinent in that ruling is that, because of the quasi-judicial role...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will open a reading school in the Killester, Raheny, Clontarf school planning area, given there is currently no provision for children who have dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Garda Síochána (6 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if An Garda Síochána has the legal powers to pursue motorbikes and scramblers being driven dangerously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reviewing the ten-year requirement for special-purpose vehicles where older vehicles are roadworthy as per the NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10385/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach was asked a simple question, which he did not answer. Did the Minister for Finance share with him the analysis from the Department of Finance that the 40,000 homes claim was not going to materialise last year? Did he share that analysis with the Taoiseach before the election date? The Taoiseach might answer this question because he has been asked twice and he has not answered...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is now a mountain of evidence that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael deliberately misrepresented housing delivery figures during the election. The Taoiseach cannot continue to deny it. This is a Comical Ali routine he is playing in pretending it was somehow an honest mistake. Not content with massaging last year's figures, the targets for this year are now being clearly reverse...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach set the target a few months ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach told the electorate a few months ago that the housing target for this year was 41,000 homes. Is he now saying that target is gone? Is he now saying that he has no housing target for 2025? What is the Government's housing target for 2025? The Taoiseach was explicitly clear a few months ago with the electorate that it was 41,000 homes. Is that still his target or has he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Tens of thousands of children with additional needs are being failed by this Government. Some 14,221 children are overdue an assessment of need. New figures released to me show the scale of the crisis for children trying to access essential therapies. At the end of December, there were more than 41,000 children waiting for an initial assessment for speech, language and occupational...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What are parents and families to do now? They are at their wits' end. They are increasingly being told that the only way to get the assessments of need that are needed for their children is to take legal action. The State is not contesting these cases, so the State is effectively putting its hands up and saying it is failing to meet the legal needs of children with additional needs. What...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: So parents should take legal cases to access that. Is that what the Tánaiste is saying?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the provision of a new Garda station at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that local authorities that have not received their 2025 social acquisition from his Department cannot proceed with the tenant-in-situ scheme; when the 2025 acquisition will be provided to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9632/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 622. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies currently in CNDT teams throughout the country, broken down by CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9530/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 623. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new staff hired in CNDT teams throughout the country in 2024, broken down by CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 807. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will allocate additional funding to the community recognition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 394. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the number of taxpayers to date that have applied to have their flat rate expenses reinstated, broken down to each tax category, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11008/25]