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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount returned from his Department’s allocation in each of the years between 2018 and 2022, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount carried over by his Department’s allocation in each of the years between 2018 and 2022, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams in the Kilbarrack area; the number of additional staff recruitments that are needed to reduce this waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4881/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regulatory Bodies (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any mechanism, either through the Approved Housing Body Regulatory Authority or any other means, for employees or tenants of an approved housing body to make a report confidentially or a protected disclosure where they believe management is acting in a way that is damaging to the organisation or tenants; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Missing Persons (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if contact has been made with Spanish authorities in order to continue the search for a missing person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4710/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the proportion of children who require childcare in the Howth and Sutton area of County Dublin; the number of available spaces; if there are plans for new childcare facilities to be built; the action he will take to rectify the lack of childcare in the area; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The third paragraph of Professor Crowe's opening statement says, "A key provision of the Bill, perhaps the single most important one ... is for stakeholder consultation and participation throughout the process," and he went on to explain the importance of co-creation. That line almost sounds like he feels that the Bill allows for lots of co-creation and stakeholder participation but his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The professor's input will be very useful to the committee when we compile our pre-legislative report because we need to specifically consider the heads and see if there are particular areas that need to be tidied up. Head 7 concerns the identification of potential marine protected areas. My reading of head 7 is that it is a fairly top-down process - the Minister does it and there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe for the clarification. Earlier he made the point very well about how successful co-creation can be. He gave really good examples of marine areas. We all want to see a reduction in conflict and as much conservation as possible. Often the best way to get conservation is through practical measures on which everyone can agree because enforcement can only take you so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe for that. I want to ask about the second point in the opening statement, which he made very well, which is that the existence of an MPA does not mean other activities cannot happen. He said that in some cases there may be grounds for quite heavily protected areas in the EU biodiversity strategy, and for seeking that 10% of the maritime area would be heavily...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can Professor Crowe give us any sense of the timeframe we may be looking at for identifying some of the areas that need heavier levels of protection and for creating that baseline? Where are we on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the information already there on some of those areas that need to be much more heavily protected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is quite incredible that this Government is using cost inflation to justify an underspend of almost €1 billion on the original allocations. I asked the Minister how much of the unspent capital housing budget was surrendered back to central government at the end of 2022. He did not answer that at all in his reply so let me help him. A total of €337 million that was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not need to tell the Minister that, in the real world, under his position and tenure, rents, house prices, the number of people in their 20s and 30s still living in their childhood bedrooms, and homelessness are at record levels. Under his tenure, we now also have a record level of the housing budget's capital spend not being spent and being reallocated, sent back to the Exchequer or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It was a flawed Bill.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will you answer my question about capital underspend?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government did not accept our amendments.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: You mean compulsory purchase order powers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why his Department failed to spend its 2022 capital allocation for new build housing; the action he will take to ensure this does not happen in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3828/23]