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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the counties in which PrEP is currently available; the steps he will take to ensure universal access for those for whom it is recommended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42776/20]

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputies Duncan Smith and Eoghan Murphy for bringing forward the proposal to have this matter debated today and to mark this anniversary. It is important and worth doing. We should be very proud of Ireland's role and the principled stand it has taken over generations against nuclear weapons. Mr. Frank Aiken, Ireland's delegate to the UN in the 1950s, played a crucial role in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with the other Deputies on vaccines. There should be more time for debate. There should be a questions and answers session as well in order that we can raise the issues we want. We should sit on Friday to facilitate that. We should be doing the same with regard to Brexit. I raised the issue on the Order of Business last week. We want these issues to be dealt with in...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister to stay for a couple of minutes as I want to address the local connection rule. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing this Bill before the House. It is positive that the Government is dealing with this and taking a constructive approach. On the local connection rule, the Minister was very clear in media comments some weeks ago that no one was being turned away....

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is good. I acknowledge the changes that are happening on the ground as a result of the letter. It is too soon to say for certain what will happen but those who have been refused emergency accommodation are now being engaged with and dealt with, which is very positive. The Minister's actions on this are making a difference, but more clarity would be useful. When we are given...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are the meetings monthly or weekly?

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are the meetings on every week?

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sometimes they are weekly, so they have gone from-----

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy that the Minister is answering some of my questions. Does he care to answer any of the others that I posed?

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Good, I am glad. In fairness, I do think that the Government is taking a constructive approach this evening and everyone welcomes that. The subject goes way above party politics and that is how we all approach it. We all agree that it is much more cost effective to prevent homelessness. It spares families and children the trauma of losing their home and all the stress and negative...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 298. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a national audit of Brexit preparedness and readiness has been carried out; if so, if such an audit will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43277/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the vaccine task force is defining housing overcrowding; if it will include persons living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medically vulnerable persons aged under 65 years of age have been placed in vaccine group 7; the group persons with cystic fibrosis and immunocompromised conditions are in; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43317/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank everyone who has done so for coming in and for the work that they do in general. I share the concerns about HAP and how it effects people on lower incomes. Laoise Neylon wrote an excellent article in the Dublin Inquirer on 11 November where she went through some of the personal stories of people in this situation who were in fear of becoming homeless, who had other HAP tenancies...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: With regard to the Debenhams workers, the Taoiseach has been asked when he will bring forward legislation to protect workers in such situations. He replied by saying that he has done what he can within the law. When will the Taoiseach change the law so the Debenhams workers and other workers in such situations are properly protected?

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to address the Taoiseach's comments on the necessity for everyone to do as much as they can to be prepared for 1 January in the context of Brexit. I fully agree that we face huge challenges in the agrifood sector and fisheries for exporters and importers and, if there is no deal, households, who could face increases to their bills of more than €1,000 per year. In the...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will respond to a comment from the Minister. He said there was significant engagement between officials in his Department and the Oireachtas joint committee dealing with housing. That is absolutely the case. It is also the case that the Minister wrote to the committee seeking a waiver of pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill. Instead of agreeing to that waiver the committee, whose...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: This issue is not a new one. The initial directive on environmental impact assessments has been in place since 1985. There has been plenty of time to get this right but choices have been made not to get it right. The first case on this issue, the Derrybrien case, was taken in 2008, 12 years ago, so there is no immediate rush on this issue such that it would necessitate the Bill going...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: My amendment No. 6 would allow for public meetings and for online meetings and would provide for public meetings not to take place during emergency periods, such as Covid. It is essentially about good decision-making in the development plan process, which is very important. If we are to have good decision-making, we need the public to be well informed on it. I do not believe any of us...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, lines 2 and 3, to delete “or an online public meeting) as it considers appropriate” and substitute “and online public meetings) to ensure effective public participation is provided for, but any such requirement to hold a public meeting shall not apply if an order under section 3(2)of the Planning and Development Act 2020applies at the...