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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [46599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for updated measures to improve the provision of electric vehicle charging points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46294/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a scenario analysis post-budget 2024 for a person who is a first-time buyer, single and earning €35,000 per year and how budget 2024 affects them in housing terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46400/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 496. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 28 February 2023, whether there are plans for compensation to be offered to those who had no other option but to avail of private nursing home care with no assistance from the State; whether any further information is available for medical card holders or their next of kin who are paying fully for nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Crumlin Children's Hospital currently only has two modern ultrasound machines, when it needs four in the radiography, radiology and ultrasound department; if he is aware that there is a lack of trophan machines in the hospital; when the necessary funding will be provided for this equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide more information on the reason the increase for PhD research funding only applies to those being funded by the Science Foundation of Ireland and the Irish Research Council; if, in the interest of equality, he will expand these increases to apply to all PhD researchers with recognised funding; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new National Student Accommodation Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46636/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for attending. Following on from what we have heard, I think it is reasonable to say that if there is a directly elected mayor for Dublin, the most basic interpretation of this would be the Limerick model that has been discussed, whereby the NTA would effectively stay as is in terms of what it is doing, but it would have a reporting-in function to a directly elected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Let us take contracting and tendering processes and the kind of staff resources that would be allocated to that as an example. How many people are we talking about in that area? If some of those people were taken away and given to a directly elected mayor what would happen? Is half of the staff complement working on transport in Dublin or in the greater Dublin area or how does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On that, if that competency was given to a directly elected mayor in Dublin, in order for that to work would staff and resources have to be shifted with that in full or could it be that the responsibility lies with a directly elected mayor and their office but all the work is done through the NTA, which is then simply reporting in? Would that be unworkable or unfeasible? It might work in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The concerns around inefficiencies are on two levels. There are risks that an additional and unnecessary layer could be introduced that does not necessarily add a huge amount, though it could be argued that it is an addition in democratic accountability and strategic oversight. That alone would be valuable. There could also be a duplication or dilution of expertise, as opposed to having it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That touches on another matter. I refer to democratic accountability for the NTA and the work it does in Dublin. On a statutory basis, what does that democratic accountability look like? Is it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is no formal way for the local authorities to engage. They can talk to the NTA and invite it to meetings but there is no formal statutory role for the local authorities at all, is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is a massive gap or deficit. I am not criticising anyone in that. There are three other Dublin local authorities and there are elected councillors. Public transport policy in the Dublin area is hugely strategically significant so to have accountability to the Oireachtas and not to the local authorities is a huge gap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It happens in my constituency all the time currently. It is not just the Senator's experience.