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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...

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 LDA's overall model, it can make sense to have affordable purchase-----

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: -----and more cost rental and so forth. It will not necessarily mean we will get less cost rental in the wider scheme of things. It could mean more in more locations.

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: On large projects, I will again reference Clongriffin because I am familiar with it. When the LDA goes into existing communities such as that, how does it do community engagement? Who does it consult and engage with? What sort of timeline is it on? Will Mr. Coleman talk us through that?

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: Does the LDA do that for every project or its larger projects?

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: Does the LDA take that approach for larger projects?

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 will ask for one point of clarification. Sometimes, developers, when they are building big projects for example, talk about having some community facilities with it, but what they are actually talking about is communal facilities for the people who go into their development but that are closed off to the rest of the community. When the LDA talks about community facilities in a project, is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to ask the Minister about rogue landlords. Salvador Chavez Morales, a computer engineer, was left short of food and at risk of becoming homeless after he was evicted by landlord Marc Godart. What had Salvador done to prompt this eviction? He had made a complaint about being recorded in his home live on CCTV cameras and was evicted as a result. Marc Godart is renting out 208 beds...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We supported 1,200 affordable homes in Donabate.