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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [16726/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair. I also thank the Ministers and officials for coming in. I have a number of questions so I will give the Minister plenty of time to respond but I will want to come in for more questions. If I am cutting the Minister off at some point, that is why am doing that. First, on the issue of the development levies, the Minister states that he wants the savings to be passed on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his reply. On the cost-rental scheme, and I appreciate the Minister’s previous answer where the detailed design is yet to happen so the Minister may not have the full details on this, but at this stage, does the Minister know when the subsidy is given, will all of these cost-rental apartments and homes be transferred to a not-for-profit housing association or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: At least all of these properties, therefore, will be a minimum 50-year tenure cost-rental property.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The LDA will own them or will transfer them to a not-for-profit organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the Housing for All strategy, there is a commitment for the second quarter of this year that there be an examination of the creation of a holding system for rental deposits. As the Minister knows there has been legislation since 2015 for a deposit retention scheme for renters. This can cause huge issues for some people regarding putting them at risk of homelessness. If they do not get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister appreciate that the legislation has been in place since 2015, though?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the Minister going to introduce a deposit protection scheme during his tenure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Over a year ago the Minister gave a commitment on legislation banning sex for rent practices. When is the legislation going to be introduced by Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Great. In that case, when is a deposit protection scheme going to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask the Minister just the one question, because he is without his Ministers of State on the flank. Following on from what Deputy McAuliffe was asking about earlier, the target in Housing for All last year was 4,100 affordable homes. It was not met. Only 1,757 homes were delivered and out of that, only 323 were affordable purchase homes. In two thirds of local authority areas, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are there enough measures in place to ensure there will be enough delivery by local authorities and AHBs on cost rental and affordable purchase? Is the Minister confident we will get all these local authorities, or the vast majority of them, delivering cost-rental and affordable purchase homes this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: What do we need to do to get local authorities to do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy McAuliffe touched on the point that some of the local authorities seem to be reluctant to do this. The Minister is almost touching on it by saying we need to encourage local authorities to do it. I think we are all agreed that there needs to be more involvement by local authorities in this. What can the Minister do and what will he do to encourage them to put a fire under them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are issues with that for some local authorities, however.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for DEIS schools to assist with the cost of school tours; if she will consider implementing such a scheme to assist schools and parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on how much of the Department of Housing's budget for 2022 was returned to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently availing of the services in each long-Covid clinic; the total funding available for long-Covid clinics; the breakdown of the funding allocated to each clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19063/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the fees for the State examinations, both Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate, will continue to be waived in 2024; when she will announce any provisions or changes to the Leaving Certificate in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18721/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: During the discussion this morning on the Social Democrats' vacant homes tax motion, the Minister for Finance was quite dismissive of the figure of 160,000 vacant homes identified by the census. He seemed to think that the figure included the homes of people who were on holidays for a few weeks but this is not correct. For a vacant home to be classified as such, the census enumerator must...