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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. McDonagh spoke about what he thinks could be achieved in the role. He obviously thought about how it could unblock issues with delivery of housing. Will he elaborate on his thoughts in terms of how the role could work?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is relevant to Mr. McDonagh's experience in NAMA. Does he think there is an alternative way of doing that? Why is this not happening at local authority level? In an ideal world we would not need a housing tsar to step in and do things that should be done-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I turn to Mr. McDonagh's opening statement and the lifetime surplus from NAMA of €5.2 billion. Does he have a view, from his professional experience of the remit of NAMA over the past 15 years, and now that we are heading into wind-down, of where we are as a country with the housing crisis and issues like affordability? Does he have anything he can draw from those 15 years? If NAMA...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that. There is public commentary, including from a former Government Minister, that people in NAMA were looking for a change in direction towards delivery of more housing and affordability. That is coming from a former Minister. Does Mr. McDonagh have a view on that? I appreciate he was given a role and he performed that role. I appreciate that, but also-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McDonagh.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for a decision on an additional needs application; if he will take action to assist social welfare in clearing the backlog of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined where a claim and complaint made to the National Lottery Ireland was not properly investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Qualifications Recognition (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26491/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the position for already qualified teachers receiving permanent teaching contracts is the same as the new policy for newly qualified teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26490/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with a school (details supplied) in relation to the official shared campus arrangement where the school is located; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider permitting stamp 2 visa holders who have applied for the stamp 1G visa to continue working up to 40 hours per week beyond 30 September pending approval of their visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine a case (details supplied) regarding a delay with an appointment for a hip replacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26488/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Children's Health Ireland is in crisis. Another three members of the board have resigned today. A succession of scandals has cast serious doubts on its capacity to provide quality healthcare to children in this country. A common thread in each of the scandals is an almost complete absence of clinical oversight. Medically questionable and unethical practices proliferated under the noses of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are talking about children, sometimes as young as the age of two and even younger, being operated on. What has happened is incomprehensible. When parents rang the phone line that was set up for them at the weekend all they were asked for was their contact details. None of the questions they asked could be answered by the people on the phone line. It is not an acceptable way to treat...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding statements this evening that the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, is doing on the external audit into Children's Health Ireland, there are no questions and answers as part of that business but we need accountability. Parents at the weekend were ringing the phoneline but could not get any answers to any questions they put. They just had their contact details were...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, I pay tribute to the family of Shane O'Farrell, namely, his mother Lucia, his father Jim and his sisters, Aimee, Pia, Hannah and Gemma, who are in the Distinguished Visitors' Gallery. I also acknowledge the official apology from the Minister for Justice. The family have been waiting for 14 years for this apology and for answers to questions about the death of their son and brother...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I recognise the work the Government has done in support for UNRWA and the International Court of Justice and in recognising the State of Palestine, which it did on this day one year ago. There is, however, much more that needs to be done. After the last 12 months, it is unclear how much longer the State of Palestine will actually exist on the map. An entire people, its culture and place...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: This applies to all State institutions, including the Central Bank. We must act to stop this genocide. The Taoiseach must act and act now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What is he going to do to stop the sale of these bonds?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not take away from anything the Taoiseach just said but I asked him about the sale of bonds being facilitated by the Central Bank of Ireland. It is very clear that these bonds are being used to fund the genocide. The Taoiseach has recognised that genocide is taking place and he has an obligation under the Genocide Convention to do everything he can to stop that genocide. The fact is...