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Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Bill and the opportunity to speak on it. The Bill's Title, the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill, does not give us a sense of the importance of it. Deputy Martin Kenny has just touched on an issue on which I will also speak. It gives us the sense, and the Acting Chair knows this from his constituency, that when building works go bad and there is no regulation the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: I know the Minister dealt with this issue earlier in response to Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, but there is a need for proactivity at this stage of the year in relation to passport supply and what is likely to be a very large demand for passports and passport renewals this year. That proactivity might save an awful lot of trouble for many people down the line.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: First, on the expanded office space, I have made the point previously that we need a physical passport office in the west. It is unfair for me to have to get somebody to travel to Dublin late on a Friday evening to collect a passport, as I had to do again last Friday. Surely in the context of new office space, that should be considered. We need an office somewhere central in the region. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: On the advertising campaign, the lotto campaign says it could be you, but when it comes to passports, it never is you until it actually happens. People probably laugh about this until they have done it themselves. I am sure it has happened to all of us. If, when you book and you are putting in your card details, there was a prompt that said "Is your passport in date?", that would do it....

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: I am rapidly losing confidence in the roll-out of the national broadband plan. My concerns are slightly more micro than the business model. There is a community in east Mayo that is very entrepreneurial but also has many families living in it. Within this community there are three home-grown companies that export internationally. We have been working with NBI for some time to try to get a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of applications for passports from counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, respectively that are currently outstanding; the planning that is being carried out to ensure that there is no repeat of the delays with applications experienced in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3624/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the implementation of projects under the white paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 133. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action that is being taken to improve recruitment and retention of staff in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether members of An Garda Síochána are doing vital work during the pandemic and that they are public facing; if he made a case for their inclusion in the Covid pandemic bonus payment in this context; if so, the details of the case he made; if not, the reason; and if he plans to pursue the issue via the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 583, 584 and 585 of 19 January 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of the administrative cost headings for both local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all homeowners who have been accepted on to the defective concrete blocks scheme ahead of the planned enhancements to the scheme will be eligible to receive the enhanced package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4153/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 321. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether public health nurses are carrying out vital work during the pandemic and are public facing; if he made a case to Government for their inclusion in the Covid pandemic bonus payment; if so, the case he made; if not, the reason; and if he plans to pursue the issue via the Government appointed panel. [4106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 355. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether home helps and carers have done extraordinary work during the pandemic and have been patient facing at all times; and his views on whether they should be awarded the Covid bonus payment. [4096/22]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Tá brón orm mar go bhfuil cruinniú eile agam agus caithfidh mé an cruinniú seo a fhágáil tar éis seo. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus roimh a oifigigh, go háirithe, roimh an Dr. Aodhán Mac Cormaic. Gabhaim buíochas as an obair a dhéanann sé. Is é seo an chéad uair atá sé os comhair an chomhchoiste...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas le hAilish Bhreathnach agus gach duine ó Chomhairle Cathrach na Gaillimhe. Bhí sonraí móra aici. Is í Gaillimh príomhchathair na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge. Tá dúshlán mór roimh an gcomhairle an Ghaeilge a spreagadh agus na daoine le Gaeilge atá ag iarraidh a bheith ina gcónaí agus ag fanacht i nGaillimh...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Labróidh mé as Béarla mar gheall gur bhain Caroline úsáid as. I get all that and I get the need for extra grants to protect the 700 structures, but Galway has a unique status. Galway is the capital city of the Gaels. It is a regional city but it is also the capital city of Gaeilge and an Ghaeltacht. It is all very well to encourage and facilitate commuting, but...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: We are looking for ideas too. That is the work this committee is doing. The witnesses are the ones dealing with this issue day to day. They are engaging with developers in the case of the city council, and their colleagues in the county authority are dealing with potential homeowners and so on. Based on their day-to-day interactions as planners, if they have the ambition to do this, they...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: I will speak in English. How can you call your city bilingual when it only has 2%? I wish to come back to the point I made at the beginning of the meeting. The council seems to be confining itself to a planning authority. It is more than that. It is the prime development body of the city, the prime development body of my regional capital and the prime development body of the principal...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: Táim sásta leis sin. Tá ár bhfinnéithe ón gcomhairle cathrach i láthair na faidhbe agus tá na deiseanna acu anois chun a dtuairimí a chur os ár gcomhair. Más rud é go bhfuil siad ag iarraidh a bheith bríomhar, táim cinnte go mbeidh siad in ann é sin a dhéanamh. Tá deis ag cathair na Gaillimhe nach bhfuil...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Feb 2022)

Dara Calleary: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that could be put in place to raise awareness of the European Union for primary and secondary school students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4670/22]