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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It may not be within settlements, but what if they are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is my only reservation with the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Perhaps that section could have slightly different wording such as a site that has been disconnected from electricity or water services for a period of two or more years and is not self-generating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is an excellent Bill. Great work has been done on it. It is good that it covers the different aspects. I would love to see this Bill progressed and done in this Oireachtas term, if we can, with us working together to get it through the system or progress it as far as we possibly can. On section 6, if we do a report - which we should soon - we could then make our recommendations on...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is a discussion about whether a mayor who is directly elected by the people of Limerick will be able to appoint the staff in his or her immediate office. We are talking about five staff. There is no city anywhere in the world in which the directly elected mayor cannot appoint his or her own staff. The norm is that directly elected mayors are responsible for the appointment and...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We can look at the entire Bill with the view that the role being created is simply not strong enough. It is unthinkable that the mayor would not be able to appoint their own staff in their own office. I cannot think you would have a directly elected mayor in other jurisdictions with legislative provisions like this. Maybe the Minister of State will tell us what other countries have these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are you calling for it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (13 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed amendments to the Housing Act 1988 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55628/23]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats will be supporting the Bill. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. If anything, and I mean this in a constructive fashion, we think the Bill is too weak. As the Deputies in Sinn Féin have said, this is a modest proposal. We would like to see the situation in place in most European countries, and there is nothing radical about this at all. People...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask about child homelessness and protections for renters. The Taoiseach has consistently stated that the no-fault ban on evictions last year did not work. However, last December, after the eviction ban was introduced, the number of children growing up without a home dropped for the first time in 11 months, and for three months in a row the number of children who were homeless fell....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Service will next meet. [55338/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a birth certificate has not been accepted as part of the foreign birth registration process whereby the applicants' grandparents are Irish citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme, given there has been no pension increase since 2008, and many persons in receipt of CIÉ pensions are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 20 September 2023, her attention has been drawn to an ongoing pension issue (details supplied); if she will engage with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to address these issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Based on a sample from what he knows. He has seen a sample where there were four attempts to use it, and from that four rulings were made by the RTB in favour of the renters. That would concur with the point I was making, which is that this clause is not being used by landlords and that they are not having findings on their side but that it is allowing for a tactical use of serving eviction...

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his response, which was interesting. If I listened to just what he said at the beginning and the end, I would be delighted. It is everything in between that causes me concern. Effectively, my understanding of what the Minister of State said is that it is his view, as well as that of the Government, that while they are allowing this Bill proceed to...

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be read a Second Time." I thank the Minister of State for attending. Unlike the Topical Issue debate, we have the right Minister, as such, for this Bill. There is no better Minister for it from the Department. I know he shares a lot of the same concerns as I have on this. I wish to state at the outset my firm view, and that of the Social Democrats, which I have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what immediate and urgent actions will be taken to reverse the month on month increases in homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53987/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure local authorities increase the number of Traveller accommodation units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53988/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I just want to ask about a couple of the other heads, heads 16 and 20 around Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, hearings and tribunals and whether they take place in public. Will the witnesses talk us through what these changes are and also around the special circumstances that are mentioned in these heads? What special circumstances would apply for something not to be in public? Reference...