Results 301-320 of 7,267 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine a case (details supplied) regarding a delay with an appointment for a hip replacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26488/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Cara Darmody is continuing her protest outside the Dáil today because nothing she has heard from the Government has convinced her to end it. Asked repeatedly yesterday if the Government would stop breaking the law, the Taoiseach could not even give that assurance. The Government does not seem to see the problem with this. It has access to State resources, can direct policy and can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: You are breaking the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is an astonishing answer. The High Court judgment was more than three years ago and the Taoiseach has just now told us that the reason it has not been acted on or that the Government has not got its act together on this is that the previous Government could not agree on what to do. Is that the case? We have more than 15,000 children waiting for an assessment of need that they...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McDonagh for coming in. I echo the comments made by others that it is disappointing that the NTMA is not here. We are thankful that Mr. McDonagh has come in and we appreciate that. I turn to some of the answers given on the role of the housing tsar. Mr. McDonagh said that his name was in the media but nobody had contacted him and he was annoyed by that. He said he was...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Filling roles in the public service with the right skills, experience and expertise is important, including senior roles. What is Mr. McDonagh's view on how this has been handled, as someone who was a participant in it? There clearly have to be lessons drawn from this.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. McDonagh spoke about what he thinks could be achieved in the role. He obviously thought about how it could unblock issues with delivery of housing. Will he elaborate on his thoughts in terms of how the role could work?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is relevant to Mr. McDonagh's experience in NAMA. Does he think there is an alternative way of doing that? Why is this not happening at local authority level? In an ideal world we would not need a housing tsar to step in and do things that should be done-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I turn to Mr. McDonagh's opening statement and the lifetime surplus from NAMA of €5.2 billion. Does he have a view, from his professional experience of the remit of NAMA over the past 15 years, and now that we are heading into wind-down, of where we are as a country with the housing crisis and issues like affordability? Does he have anything he can draw from those 15 years? If NAMA...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that. There is public commentary, including from a former Government Minister, that people in NAMA were looking for a change in direction towards delivery of more housing and affordability. That is coming from a former Minister. Does Mr. McDonagh have a view on that? I appreciate he was given a role and he performed that role. I appreciate that, but also-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McDonagh.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for a decision on an additional needs application; if he will take action to assist social welfare in clearing the backlog of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26366/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach talks about progress and step-change but the HSE is saying that the shocking figure of more than 15,000 children overdue an assessment of need this year will be 25,000 by the end of this year. That is what is happening. He knows that early intervention is crucial for children. It makes a world of difference. It can mean the difference between children with the proper...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Successive Governments have let children with autism and intellectual disabilities down in the worst possible way. Permanent damage is being caused to thousands and thousands of children. The fact this is happening is a national disgrace. Those are not my words but those of Cara Darmody, who joins us in the Gallery, who has begun a 50-hour protest over disability services outside the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (20 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his appointment. I wish him well in it. I very much look forward to working with everyone as collaboratively as possible. Committees work best when we can collaborate, pick some areas that we want to delve into, get some real value and use from that, and do our piece of public service by working together. I join with everyone in wishing Richard Boyd...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: For parents and their families not to have information that they are seeking is hugely distressing for them. It is the least they deserve and expect. We know at this stage, from some of the information that has been drip-fed, that some of the recommendations in the draft audit are being implemented. Why can the Government not share with us all of the recommendations in that draft audit?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government has repeatedly stated that it does not want to see a drip feed of information about the audit of hip surgeries at the three children's hospitals but that is what we are getting. Any information about the scandal has had to be dragged out of the Government. Yesterday, responding to me, the Taoiseach confirmed for the first time that he expected the audit to be finalised next...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (15 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with reports (details supplied) of flights operating outside of their allowed flight paths with excessive noise to residents who fall within these flight paths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24980/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (15 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his responsibilities over the Irish Aviation Authority in relation to the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993; if he will examine a complaint (details supplied) in relation to legal protections for whistleblowers in the IAA on that basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25071/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of the summer programme can be announced in September each year instead of April-May to enable families to prepare for the summer months in advance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24979/25]