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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...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is not the case.

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We should contrast what is happening in respect of vacancy in Ireland with what the Spanish Government has just announced. It has announced that 50,000 vacant homes are going to be brought back into use and made available at affordable rents for adults who are still living with their parents. That is the kind of initiative we need. It is making good use of its housing stock and is giving...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Ireland's housing crisis continues to have a devastating impact on people's lives and life choices; — bringing vacant homes back into use is one of the quickest and most sustainable ways to increase the supply of housing; — high levels of vacancy in homes around Ireland have been identified by the GeoDirectory, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether recent flight path changes are resulting in an increase in aircraft passing over a location (details supplied); the regulations for aircraft turning over Dublin Bay; the permitted noise levels from aircraft flying over residential areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 116. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to tackle the waiting lists in the primary care service for children's disability services for example, psychology, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy in the north Dublin area CHO9; the length of the waiting lists for these services in the primary care service; his advice for parents who may be waiting upwards of three...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On behalf of the Social Democrats I welcome this motion and I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. It complements the motion which the Social Democrats will be bringing forward in the morning on the vacant homes tax, where we are looking for such a tax with teeth. The derisory 0.3% rate of the tax which the Government has brought forward will not be an effective tax and will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [15171/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [16725/23]