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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Never before has the opportunity or the need for action from Government to address the housing crisis been so great and never before has the opportunity for Government to address the housing crisis been so great. The Housing Commission in its report published in May stated very clearly that we need 60,000 new homes a year to be delivered. Currently only about half of that is being...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of taxpayers who are eligible to claim the rent tax credit; the number of renters who have claimed the tax credit in each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38544/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the works at a school (details supplied); the expected completion date for the construction works; the timeline on which the school will be opened fully; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38679/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the planned universal expansion of the national childcare scheme will extend to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38928/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Patient Transport (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if CHO9 will be provided with funding for patient transport to hospital appointments or respite services in cases in which the patient is bed bound and requires transport on an ambulance trolley; the cost of ambulance transfers is significant for the patient and their family; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reintroduce the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme to assist recruitment in the construction trades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38722/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on including metachromatic leukodystrophy in the national newborn bloodspot screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38292/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the enactment of the National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38293/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Minister about childcare and core funding. Parents with children in the Little Rainbows crèche in my constituency were told by the operator this summer that the operator was withdrawing from core funding and increasing its fees. The increased fees are simply not sustainable or affordable for many of the parents, forcing some of them to choose whether they can continue...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made, if any, on the delivery of the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38036/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On posters, they are so resource-intensive and so expensive to buy and potentially to pay people to put up, as well as the issue of getting volunteers to put them up, that it can be a barrier for new entrants who are not able to match the resources incumbents have. Incumbents may have a stockpile as well and while you have to apportion a cost to them in your returns, effectively you do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A tear in a ballot paper, for example, is only an issue if the tear means you cannot see whether the ballot paper has been stamped, or it interferes with whether you can see if there is a number one on the ballot paper or something like that. A tear in itself is not an issue. Is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is this consistent across different counts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just what is set out in legislation. Are there any kind of guidelines on top of that or anything like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Where are those guidelines that are issued available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are they available to the public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be published for the election coming up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be available online before counts take place? Is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will they be available on the Department's website?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion (24 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask for some clarity on the issue of the 50 m at the entrance to polling places. There is often a little confusion about that. I notice that the Department's language is "entrance to polling places". That means it is not the boundary or curtilage of the building or grounds but the actual entrance to the polling place.