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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance the mitigation measures his Department will implement given the recent ESRI working paper on the impact of deglobalisation and protectionism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16440/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Given the very serious announcements last night, what mitigation measures are going to be put in place?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree that the priority must be to minimise the damage. A major amount of work will have to be done on that. In respect of support measures for impacted workers and sectors, will anything be done domestically? Will anything be done at EU level? I previously suggested that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund should be repurposed to support specific sectors during this crisis. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, priority questions cannot be grouped.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to reduce extremely high interest rates being charged to some mortgage holders whose mortgages were sold to financial institutions after the crash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that owners of vacant commercial property are not able to write off their commercial rates obligations as business expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new special schools and special classes that have been sanctioned in Dublin bay north for the 2025-2026 school year; if all of these will be open and operational by September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the extension of the homeowner's once-off payment in respect of 2024 mortgage interest payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Pharmacy Services (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the fees paid to pharmacists are increased (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16460/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 321. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the medicine shortages that are forcing pharmacists to source expensive unlicensed medicines for patients with medical cards (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16461/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (3 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the status of the Control of Dogs (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16340/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: While inflation on many good services has abated compared to what we experienced from 2021 through 2023, it simply would not be correct to say that Ireland's cost-of-living crisis has gone away, as I am sure we all agree. Lower inflation rates do not mean prices are falling; they just mean prices are not rising quite as fast as they were previously. The period of severe inflation between...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government has spent years trying to convince religious orders to contribute to redress for the survivors of mother and baby homes. These efforts started in January 2021 when the then Minister, Roderic O'Gorman, first wrote to the orders saying they may wish to consider making a financial contribution to redress costs. His begging letters were ignored. In May 2023, the Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have not been asking for the Government to wait around in the context of a redress scheme; I am asking what it is going to do when it comes to going after these religious orders. This has been going on for years. We are talking about religious orders with assets worth hundreds of millions of euro, partly financed off the back of incarceration, forced labour, vaccine trials and forced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He indicated that existing accommodation must be utilised. That is exactly what we proposed – to use the brand-new classrooms. He said that using the existing classrooms designed for students with additional needs would require repurposing and that there are technical issues involved. That would be nothing compared with the work that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It makes absolutely no sense at all to accommodate a much-needed special school in Belmayne in prefabs, next door to brand-new classrooms that are not yet in use and that were specifically designed for students with additional needs. Why should children with additional needs be accommodated in prefabs in substandard conditions when a much better option is available? There is a site...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a timeline for the pension increases to come into effect for retired An Post workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Question Heading for question(s) 217 (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it can be ensured that a person’s (details supplied) travel document renewal is processed as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 347. To ask the Minister for Health if she will take action to expedite a fair deal application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16324/25]