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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1442. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the new regional health areas which determine the introduction of community neurorehabilitation in CHO 9; when these regional health areas are expected to be implemented; the action he will take to ensure all CHO areas will receive community neurorehabilitation teams once the RHAs are finalised; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an updated timeline for when the remaining healthcare workers can expect to receive their Covid recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1648. To ask the Minister for Health the action that he will take in 2023 to address the long waiting lists and ensure that children with autism spectrum disorder receive the necessary supports for early intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1982/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1891. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there has been any analysis undertaken of the cluster housing pilot scheme in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary; if there are other cluster housing pilot schemes planned in the coming years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1149/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank NOAC for appearing here today. I want to ask a couple of questions about the national local authority performance index indicator report which is very good and full of very useful information particularly in relation to the housing disaster that we are in at the moment. Appendix 2 of the report is about housing delivery numbers. It is very useful because it shows the net additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his response. I appreciate it. The vacancy data in the report is very important. It shows that in 2021 the vacancy rate in local authority owned dwellings in Cavan was 4.6%. Cork city had a rate of almost 4.4%. The rate for Galway county was over 7%, it was more than 4% for Limerick city and county and it was in excess of 7% for Longford county. In contrast, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I am all for the approach of encouraging local authorities and there is a lot to be said for the good practice seminar. We are in a housing disaster at the moment, so there is no excuse for Cavan, for example, having a vacancy rate of almost 5% when a neighbouring county, Monaghan, has a rate of less than 1%. I am quite certain that anything Monaghan can do Cavan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: If NOAC comes across reasons why some local authorities are not performing so well in certain areas, which may be for structural reasons or whatever, can anything be done about that beyond talking to the local authority? Can the issue be flagged if spotted? In terms of the overview NOAC has, does not go anywhere else? What is it able to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr McCarthy.

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would return the good wishes of Happy Christmas to the Minister if he were still here. The Minister has a tendency to leave the Chamber during these debates before either I or Deputy Boyd Barrett speak. We do not take that personally. We merely note it. I will extend Happy Christmas wishes to all my other colleagues in the Dáil, and especially to all the staff who do tremendous...

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all those on the working group, who did a lot of work on this, especially the people involved in the Apartment Owners' Work, the Construction Defects Alliance, and the more recently formed Not Our Fault redress campaign. The best way to prevent defects from happening again starts with a robust planning and building control system. Yesterday, the Dáil passed legislation to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce financial supports for residents reliant on communal energy systems in the form of one-off energy credits or a direct subsidy covering the difference between the average domestic rate and the commercial rate of gas, pending the development of appropriate regulation of the district heating sector;...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Bill briefing was produced by the Oireachtas. I certainly never said that all the recommendations from the pre-legislative scrutiny report were not implemented. I said only two of the 13 were. That was confirmed by the Bill briefing we got. That briefing provides much of the rationale and feedback from the Department. That should already be available to Members. I welcome that the...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not think this is the way to do legislation. This Bill arises from the water framework directive that the European Commission adopted 22 years ago. It signalled in 1996 that it would bring forward such a directive. It does not make any sense for it to have taken this long for the State to bring forward this much-needed legislation, for us to have concluded our pre-legislative scrutiny...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 46: In page 10, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Provisions in respect of foreshore licensing requirements for certain surveying activities 14.The Act of 1933 is amended by the insertion of the following after section 3A: “Obligations 3AA.Notwithstanding anything in the definition of the foreshore in section 1, and the powers of the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I think that might have been my error to have withdrawn amendment No. 45, so if I am-----

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 43: After subsection (1) to insert the following: “(1A) This section shall not apply to a housing development which may have a significant effect on the environment and any such determination needs to be made publicly available at least 12 weeks prior to the notification of the commencement for the development provided for under subsection...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, to delete lines 22 to 32 and substitute the following: “(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) The Minister in appointing ordinary members of the Board at all times under this Part, shall ensure, in so far as is practicable, that— (a) the ordinary members of the Board are persons who, have...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Ó Broin is dead right in that modern methods of construction have been around for longer than most, if not all, of us in this Chamber. There has absolutely been success with modern methods of construction but there have also been some issues and problems with them, so it is important we learn from that. I want to see off-site construction work and I do not want it to be...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the clarification the Minister gave here and at the end of Second Stage concerning his intentions. None of that information was given at the briefing we had with the Department earlier in the week. We were not told this was about particular sites the Minister has in mind with regard to modern methods of construction in particular. I am not in any way opposed to what the Minister...