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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1982. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a mental health organisation (details supplied) in order for it to continue operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a primary care speech and language therapy appointment by CHO, LHO, age and time waiting. [20110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a primary care occupational therapy appointment by CHO, LHO, age and time waiting. [20111/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for community psychology services by CHO, LHO, age, category and time waiting. [20112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2201. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for homecare package applications by CHO and LHO. [20113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2202. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake an urgent review of the allocation of mental health services to young persons; the areas in which gaps in provision of services exist by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2239. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve waiting times for speech and language assessments in north Dublin CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2301. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve waiting times for psychological treatment and support in north Dublin CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20515/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are reports this week of 435 apartments in Ashtown in Dublin 15 being sold off to a foreign investment company based in Germany several years before these apartments will be completed. According to the Construction Industry Federation, in 2019, 95% of apartments were sold to institutional investors, leaving only 5% for everyone else. Individuals and couples simply cannot compete with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I strongly welcome these necessary measures. On the measures to combat excess packaging, I am familiar with some of these high footfall areas where there have been huge problems with litter. Some of them are well serviced with bins and everything else but there is a massive amount of excess in unnecessary packaging. Is the Minister is looking at giving powers to local authorities to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will support this amendment. I agree with previous speakers that a housing mix is very positive and should be encouraged. I do not see an issue with this amendment in regard to that. This is about whether we give public subsidies to private developers in delivering affordable housing and whether it is a good way to proceed if we want affordable housing. This amendment does not preclude...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with Senator Boyhan. This amendment is definitely one of the most important and I fully support it. I agree with the rewording suggested by Deputy Ó Broin. I am genuinely surprised and quite worried that the Government is opposed to the amendment. I would have thought that there would be a consensus that affordable rental should actually be affordable. There is a general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay, there is consensus on that. That is good. If there is consensus on that, why would the figure of 30% of net income not be the measure of that? That is the part that I do not understand. One could make the argument that for flexibility one might go a bit higher than that or something, but I would have thought that it is a key point to be agreed, there should be consensus on that and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is fundamentally about what is the best way to support people who need affordable homes and whether this is the right measure. On that, we have heard from the ESRI, the Central Bank and senior officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform who have expressed concern that this will increase demand and prices rather than supply. We know from the UK what happened after a...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Aontas na Mac Léin in Éirinn, the Union of Students in Ireland, for its work on these proposals. I also thank Deputy Ó Broin for his work in bringing forward the legislation. I welcome the Government's agreement to take the Bill forward to Committee Stage, which is very positive. There has been a lack of urgency on the part of the Government in dealing with this...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his kind words. He has agreed to implementing the best parts of the Bill. Will he tell us which parts he does not agree with and does not intend to implement? From his words this morning, he seems to have formed a view on that question. If so, the House has a right to know which parts of the Bill he believes should be implemented and which should not. It is only...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was here for the Minister's opening statement.

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: To be fair, I think the Minister was trying to be helpful with his intervention. I thank him for that and I appreciate that these issues will be discussed on Committee Stage. However, it would be useful to have his explicit view on the question I raised in order that we know where we stand. I thank the Minister for being willing to engage on that point. The essence of these proposals...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: A matter reported this week which is related to the Bill is that rents are being artificially fixed. Rents are not being recorded properly and this should be addressed in the legislation that the Minister mentioned. This has implications not just on rent pressure zones and undermining the 4% increase protections but also for the State in the context of long-term leases. As the Minister...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the same point, a 45-minute debate on this motion is entirely insufficient. There has been a lack of scrutiny of the national marine planning framework. It is a highly significant framework, which has major implications for our marine environment, those who work in fisheries and renewable energy. It is highly regrettable that the Government does not seem to have learned lessons from...