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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of the recent works carried out by the OPW to the Marino Casino including the new cabin; the purpose of these works; whether any consultation took place given the architectural sensitivity of the monument; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will examine recent childcare increases of 40% in a Dublin creche (details supplied); the action she is taking to ensure childcare costs are brought down; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27756/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to reduce extremely high interest rates being charged to some mortgage holders whose mortgages were sold to financial institutions after the crash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27616/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take action to ensure that the Central Bank is not facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to address the falling number of tax exiles paying the domicile levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27618/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budgetary measures he is planning to address staffing shortages across key areas of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28131/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take action to ensure there is an appropriate school place for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has assessed a location (details supplied) as a potential location for new housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any additional supports in place for expectant mothers who will not be able to meet their mortgage repayments while relying on maternity benefit; if he intends to increase the rates of maternity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28551/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his contribution. Regarding the answers to questions he sent in beforehand, I want to follow up on No. 7. In his answer to that he stated that by the end of 2023, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, had €4.2 million directly invested in occupied Palestinian territories and €9.4 million indirectly invested. He went on to say that over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I touched on the issue of corporation tax, IP and related assets with the Minister earlier. Dr. Aidan Regan in UCD has done detailed work in this area and is a leading expert on this. The Minister said previously that these are operations of substance involving research and development, that people are employed and that there are services and manufacturing. Dr. Aidan Regan has done much...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also extend my sympathy to those affected by the school shooting in Austria. The Taoiseach was right about one thing; I did not expect these proposals. That is because at no stage in recent months, weeks or even today, until the press release was issued earlier, was there any mention by Government in all its spin that what it is actually introducing here - and the Taoiseach has not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach can talk about his 2%, inflation and all the rest of it but if people are going to face astronomical rent increases they cannot afford every six years, Government will drive more people into homelessness. In a country where rents are already incredibly high - among the highest in Europe - the Taoiseach will only make things worse. Will he admit that in the last bullet point of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Time and again, we have put forward proposals to increase supply and financing, most recently with regard to leveraging some of the savings on deposit in Ireland and incentivising how they could be invested in housing. Pension funds in other countries invest in housing that is affordable. The Government is creating a system in which rents just go up and up, beyond people's reach. That is...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Israel Sovereign Bonds, known as Israel Bonds, have, since 1951, raised funds for the Israeli Treasury for use across the Israeli economy including the Israeli military and the illegal settlements; — Israel Bonds have since October 2023, been advertised as war bonds with the slogan "Stand with Israel – Israel is at...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a right to come in as well. The Ceann Comhairle cannot cut our speaking time like that just because the Minister went over his speaking time.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not right.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is completely unfair that the Ministers went over their speaking time and we have been cut off.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have six minutes of our speaking time left.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: That has never happened before.