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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: With regard to sensitive information, is the intention that an entire hearing would not be in public or that certain sensitive information from the hearing or adjudication could be redacted? Are both an option?

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: Head 22 is the extension of the slip rule with regard to slips and omissions. Threshold is very concerned about this. It is strongly of the view that strict compliance with the formalities of ending a tenancy is the least a tenant can expect when being evicted from their home. There are issues with this. Where did this proposal come from? What are its origins? What is the rationale or...

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: Do we have statistics on how very rarely used it is? Will the Department share these with the committee?

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 thank Ms Comer. This would help to give us context to what we are speaking about. The RTB has made proposals in recent years on enforcement powers and legislative changes required so it can be more proactive in terms of enforcing regulations. Are these in the Bill?

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 am trying to get a sense of it. Many proposals have been made by the RTB in recent years on legislative changes that are potentially needed. I am trying to get a sense of which ones made it into the Bill and which did not.

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 want to follow Senator Moynihan's questions on several apartments or homes being sold and the exemption in the Bill. In such a case a renter does not get the first right to make a bid, or however we want to put it, that is available in the Bill. Is there a concern about the Bill being discriminatory or arbitrary in giving different rights to different people? This is with regard to...

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: This very same argument was put to us a couple of days ago about individual properties. Is this not potentially the legislation being discriminatory with regard to a set of rights and obligations? Somehow, because someone owns nine properties, they will be in a better position in society because they have larger ownership. They will be conferred with a better position just by virtue of the...

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: Yes, but you could still sell eight and then sell that other one to the individual. Even before this issue arose and before the eviction ban and all of the discussion after it, I was quite aware of this exact situation. The apartments of long-term tenants, perhaps in apartment blocks, who had been renting for years, could be sold and they were never given the opportunity or chance to buy....

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53749/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Tyrrelstown amendment was introduced to protect renters from eviction in cases where entire apartment blocks of renters were being evicted and when the apartments were being sold. The amendment was introduced to ensure that where ten or more rental homes were being sold together, renters would not be evicted and would be able to stay in their homes while the homes were sold. However,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee on housing will next meet. [53748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship applications that are outstanding; the number of apprenticeship applications in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54208/23]

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is a danger here that we almost get used to this response from Government and become desensitised to it. It is not a response. What has happened here is not acceptable. We have record levels of homelessness and rent and very clear data showing that rent regulation has been utterly flouted across this country. What happens? The Minister responds to this motion, which I thank Deputy...

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [52315/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance if, with regard the amendments to the Finance (No.2) Bill in support of the recommendations in the report of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the section 481 film tax credit, he will consult and engage with a union (details supplied) on this matter and reconsider the decision to refuse this recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an updated timeline for the production of the draft National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with schools on the return of unspent Covid grants to the FSSU; whether this return can be reconsidered in some cases (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look at a case (details supplied) whereby a child who is starting primary school in September may have to travel from the Raheny area to Balbriggan to get a place in an autism class; what is the provision of autism classes in the vicinity of this child’s home; whether there are plans to provide additional autism classes in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the fees paid by his Department for consultation services provided by a firm (details supplied), broken down by the amount paid and purpose of consultation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the fees paid by his Department for consultation services provided by the firm (details supplied), broken down amount paid and purpose of consultation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53325/23]