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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----from €278 to €2,000. Someone who has lived there for years will be involved in the community and will have relationships and community ties to the area. Waterways Ireland's proposal is eviction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What will happen then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does Mr. Rowe accept that if people have ties in the community, have lived there for a considerable period or have children who may have additional needs in local schools, it is not a viable solution to require them to move?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can Mr. Rowe provide any evidence of congestion on waterways, particularly in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Could Mr. Rowe provide the committee with details of Waterways Ireland's internal governance control committee?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 17 January 2024, if she will provide a map in pdf form of the school planning areas that make up the constituency of Dublin bay north; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3438/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of an ongoing campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to review the teaching through Irish-medium allowance; if she will engage with the organisation on this issue with the view to introducing a fairer and more equal system for Irish-medium teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3439/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise parents in an area who are outside the school planning area for both of their closest schools (details supplied) and are left with no alternative; if these schools have discretion to allow students in this situation to apply, despite falling outside the catchment, where no equivalent school is available; and if she will make...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Khaled Kamal Abdel Aziz Rashwan was 34 years old. Rose Ramez Amin Hassouna was 21 years old. Samir Rajab Muhammed Al-Saafin was 62 years old. Amr Mostafa Amin Nofal was 12 years old. Maria Amjad Majed Abu Odeh was five years old. Fatima Muhammad Ali Abu Omra was 91 years old. Janan Hamed Nasser Al-Astal was one year old. Every single person that has been killed in Gaza has a name, a...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for putting forward this very important motion. It is not an unrealistic expectation that the Minister would engage more seriously when these motions are put forward. I do not mean the Minister of State currently present in the Chamber: I mean the senior Minister who has left. In a situation of record homelessness that is higher than ever seen before in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Time and again, the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council has warned that the lack of affordable housing is a key risk to the economy. It is absolutely infuriating for individuals and families who work hard to save up to buy homes to see vulture funds swooping in to snatch them up. In Belcamp Manor in Balgriffin, 85% of the housing estate has been bought by the investment arm of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55337/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have done that before.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Birth Certificates (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person cannot apply for a certificate of freedom to marry abroad due to not having access to their long-form birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2660/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the report into the warmth and wellbeing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2752/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many asylum seekers have been asked to leave IPAS accommodation since the beginning of 2022, broken down by county and month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 613. To ask the Minister for Health what progress is being made to introduce animal testing replacements in favour of non-animal methods; what transparency exists in animal testing under the Health Products Regulatory Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2659/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the LDA for coming in and Mr. Coleman for his opening statement and reports on its work. First, the issue of the creation of sustainable communities was discussed quite a bit, as was the environmental aspect of it, which is very important. There are other parts of sustainable communities such as community facilities, infrastructure, amenities, schools, etc. For quite some time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the area of tenure mix and affordable purchase, the LDA is saying that generally, apartments are much more likely to be cost rental because of the finance model and the price at which those lands may have been acquired and so forth. It is Government and national policy to promote sustainable and compact development. I often hear from people who say they would like to be able to move out...