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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate a CPO is not the answer in every circumstance, but we have a situation where Limerick City and County Council has issued 250 CPOs since 2019. There may be more vacancy in that area, but in one part of my constituency more than four homes have been empty for ten or 15 years. These houses are in areas that were built 50 or 100 years ago, which are fully serviced and connected,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is just a frustration. I am sure I am not the only public representative who has reported these long-term neglected vacant houses, which are very unfair on neighbours. We have reported those properties for years. It is not the case that Dublin City Council is not aware of them. Given that it has not been able to resolve them through different activation measures over the years, you...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that Dublin City Council is not limited to four-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----but seeing it has not been proactive on these empty houses in areas of high housing need and demand for a substantial number of years, that CPO target is just way too low. Does the overall target of 400 CPOs for this year relate to them being issued rather than completed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are 18 local authorities involved in the mapping GIS survey?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: When do we expect them all to be using that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. On the targets and accountability, if local authorities are not meeting their targets, what measures will be taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will funding around vacancy not be available if local authorities do not meet their targets on vacancy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: To draw it down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: If a local authority is not doing enough on vacancy, the funding it gets to tackle vacancy could be curtailed or withdrawn. Is that the consequence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I know, but it could be counterproductive. A poor performer will be given less resources to tackle the issue, rather than another consequence that might have-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There needs to be consequences.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: In every local authority.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach the various Cabinet committees dealing with urgent issues that have met the least in the past 12 months. [27436/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide on update on recent meetings of Cabinet committees, with particular reference to the committees on housing, children and education and health. [27437/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding the Cabinet committee on housing, I ask the Taoiseach about the numbers of people who are sleeping rough. An article written by Laoise Neylon in the Dublin Inquirerstated that last November 180 people were counted as sleeping rough in Dublin by the Dublin Simon Community outreach team. Yet despite this, the official figure of the number of people sleeping rough published by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [25961/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On reform, I want to ask about a 2008 report from the Law Reform Commission. The report in question took the form of a consultation paper and it contains a number of recommendations in respect of expert witnesses. In 2016, a report was published by the commission in which it reiterated the need for reform and clarity in the use of expert witnesses. There is serious concern about the role...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank our guests for their contributions. I wish to follow up with the representatives of Uisce Éireann on the suggestion relating to compulsory purchase orders. I will focus on a particular part of the issue. When those powers are with local authorities, there is a safeguard against over-reach in the use of those powers. That safeguard is the elected councillors. The water...