Results 7,161-7,180 of 7,201 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that alcohol is included and made a priority in the new national drugs strategy; if she will arrange to meet a coalition group that made contact with her office (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Product Labelling (1 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 789. To ask the Minister for Health whether alcohol warning labels will be introduced in May 2026 as planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure the additional €15 million is provided to the postal network in order that it can continue to provide an essential nationwide service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36335/25]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On Vote 13, subhead B6 contains building projects in planning or under construction. I ask the Minister of State about the audit carried out by Deloitte that found that the OPW did not conduct a value for money assessment for the bike shelter project, for example, in advance of the work taking place. Deloitte made a number of recommendations in its audit. Will the Minister of State give us...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there any indication of how many of the 18 are implemented now and how many have yet to be implemented?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the new enhanced internal audit position done then?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Have the project management guidelines for small capital projects been put in place?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On Vote 13, subhead B6, regarding value for money and the overspend on modular units, I am supportive of everything that is being done to provide housing for people fleeing from war. I think that is necessary and worthwhile work. On the programme to deliver 654 rapid build modular units, the current overspend on the project is €47.9 million. Will the Minister of State talk us...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The overspend is €47.9 million. That is what was provided in a response to a parliamentary question. I would not say it is on budget. The Minister of State is trying to say the unit itself is on budget but the associated costs, which are an integral part, is where the overspend is.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: You cannot put a modular unit in without associated costs. When this is being calculated, are there no calculations about putting in connections? How did we get to a point where that was such a high overrun? I have talked to people who work in the industry and they say that those costs came in exceptionally high. Does the Minister of State accept that point or does he actually think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State about one issue, which is the proposed new Garda station at Northern Cross. This was promised and announced in 2019, not by the previous Government but the one before that, of which the Minister of State was part. Indeed, he was the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works at the time. There has been no progress on this station in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Can he understand the frustration of the local community that the Government he was part of back in 2019 announced this new Garda station, told the local community it would happen, there was agreement about the site, and then six years later we are getting responses indicating a site has yet to be identified? After announcing this new Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is a very unsatisfactory answer from the point of view of the community.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps the Government is taking on an EU level to end the Israeli blockade of food, humanitarian aid and baby formula which is having devastating consequences in children’s hospitals in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has met with the Chairman of the Agri-Food Regulator following his request for a meeting in February; if so, the outcome of that meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will grant the Agri-Food Regulator the additional powers it has requested to carry out its role effectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36711/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Looking at strengthening the powers of the CCPC is no good. You have to actually act when you are in government. The Government has been looking at strengthening its powers for years but it has not done it. The Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, asking it to do a review like it did in 2023, which did not achieve anything as the Government had not given it extra powers, will not produce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach have the political guts to make supermarkets publish their profits and have full transparency? This is what I asked him about. Does he have the political guts to actually answer the question I put to him? We are talking about parents skipping meals so their children can eat. We are talking about situations where a child cannot go to a friend's birthday because there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why have you not done it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not have enough powers.