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Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I note the Minister does not like being interrupted by other people but he happily does it to me. I do not mind him interrupting but I am just pointing out that he takes umbrage when others do it, yet he does it to me all of the time. He can just reflect on that.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: We mentioned in the motion 20,000 social, affordable and cost rental homes, not 20,000 social homes, but perhaps the Minister did not actually read it. It is not clear if the Minister thinks it is not possible to do that. I do not understand how the Minister feels it is possible to do 24,000 homes this year yet we could not have 20,000 of those as social, affordable and cost rental homes....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [32511/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [36168/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why not wait for that to make changes to the law?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government is seeking to ram through amendments to the planning Bill this week that will severely curtail and restrict the ability of people to hold An Bord Pleanála to account. That is what the Government is doing this week. If these changes go through, they will severely restrict and curtail the ability of people to hold An Bord Pleanála to account. These changes amount...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of the National Student Accommodation Strategy, and Housing for All, the preparations that are being made to ensure that there is sufficient accommodation provision for international students and English language students ahead of the new academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter [37187/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new international education strategy will be published; the timeline for introducing the International Education Mark; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies that are in place in higher education institutions in relation to racism and the way that students can report racism they may experience while studying in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37186/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I endorse Senator Boyhan's comments on the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance. They have a lot of experience, expertise and knowledge. A lot of the alliance members have professional experience of many years. Engagement with them would be very useful. In the overall area of planning, complex planning law is bad law. I completely agree that it leads to confusion, delay and litigation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: In a way these documents, including the one today, are headline overview consultation documents. Will the officials be coming back to the committee on the conclusion of the process when they have more concrete detail? Will we be able to input at that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The concern I have is that while today's document contains nothing I would disagree with and is really good, I may well end up disagreeing with someone about how it is interpreted and implemented, or I may not. The detail is the important bit. I am just wondering about the concrete detail on process. On the whole planning review including today's, are the officials looking at good practice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: To date, has anything stood out from that? Is there anything of particular interest that Ms Graham has come across?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, that does not serve anybody's interests who is involved in the process at all. The point about intent in legislation is a very interesting idea and could be very useful.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 49: In page 14, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(1) The Minister shall request an updated Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland report on construction costs for the Defective Concrete Block Grant Scheme in advance of the opening of the scheme, based on appropriate regional or county-based costings. The Minister may also amend the terms...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The list of people on the NSAI review group of industry standard 465 reads like a who's who of the industry. I question whether there is sufficient independence in that. What measures are in place to ensure they are sufficiently independent and not tied in with many of those industry representatives in the group? Where are the measures to ensure sufficient international experience and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will first make some comments on the additional parts the Minister has announced today. I completely understand that this work must be done. It is very difficult, however, in terms of the legislative process and the scrutiny process, for us to engage with that in detail when all we have at this point are the introductory comments made by the Minister. We do not have the detail. I...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the motion and thank my colleague, Deputy Cairns, for bringing it forward. I welcome everyone watching today in the Gallery and elsewhere. This is a very important motion highlighting the huge inequalities, injustices and exclusion faced by people with disabilities. All of us as Deputies are hugely aware of the impact of this on people with disabilities. We hear from people with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (6 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of actions contained in the National LGBT Strategy that remain incomplete; if he will provide a list of the incomplete actions; the reason that each action is incomplete; the expected timeline for their full completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36360/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: In some parts of the country renters have been hit with staggering rent increases of up to 75%. This is utterly unacceptable and no renter can afford those kinds of increases. The way in which the rent pressure zones rules have been written means that those parts of the country will never be declared a rent pressure zone. Is the Tánaiste aware of this problem, what is the Government...