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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How is it possible that staff working in treatment plans would not know how to respond to alarm systems going off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The alarm system was working, it is just that the staff did not know how to respond to it. Is that the understanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As things currently stand, Irish Water does not know what went wrong in terms of equipment or processes. Is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How often are the alarm systems checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: To be clear, are the alarm systems checked daily in our water treatment plants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How often is periodically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: These alarm systems are of critical importance in terms of our public water. Do we know how often they are checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just that periodically does not mean much. Periodically could be anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Will the audits on the 20 plants that are being done now be published? If so, when?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [43652/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department will play in monitoring and implementing the Housing for All plan. [43653/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the previous election Fianna Fáil promised to build 10,000 affordable homes each year it is in office. These homes are nowhere to be seen. Since the Government has taken office, house prices have increased by more than 10%. In Housing for All the Government commits to giving about €1 billion in subsidies to developers. The Central Bank and the Economic and Social Research...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I acknowledge the Minister and his officials in the Department put a lot of work into this plan and would have spent a lot of time on it. Let us be clear about what is happening in terms of the comments made earlier by the Minister and in the media. There is an attempt to normalise our housing crisis by saying it is a problem internationally and by pointing to what is going on in other...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not but the Minister was heckling me, as he likes to, and I was referring to those comments and bringing them to his attention, which I am correct to do.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister has said this is an honest plan. There has been a lot of spin on this plan. The first bit of spin was during the launch, where there was a lot of talk about increasing home ownership levels. If this plan is implemented and meets its targets, home ownership levels will continue to decrease in Ireland. That is a fact. Incidentally, that is not for the worst of reasons; it is...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleague, Deputy Whitmore, for the work she has done on this issue and for bringing forward this motion. Both my colleagues, Deputies Whitmore and Gannon, have already put forward a very strong case for this moratorium. It is with a sense of disbelief that we are bringing this forward and having to make these arguments to a Green Party Minister who should know well why the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: A number of young people experiencing homelessness have come forward and reported that after seeking help from a homelessness organisation, they were subjected to serious sexual assault. This highlights how crucial it is that everyone working with vulnerable people on our streets and in emergency accommodation be Garda vetted. It is also critical that the national quality standards...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [43654/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: In following up the earlier response on the Stardust issue, it is welcome that the Government is committed to the inquest, that €8 million has been assigned and that legal aid is to be given to the families but the issue is that, while all the other legal teams involved in the inquest have been funded to prepare for the inquest, the legal representatives of the families have not been...