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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the programme for Government. [57673/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the local connection rule and the commitment on page 55 of the programme for Government to introduce a social housing passport to allow a household to move from one local authority housing waiting list to another. The local connection rule is still causing significant issues and problems, perhaps not on the same scale as last year, but people are still being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: What is the Government doing to increase the number of apprenticeships, especially in construction trades? This is of crucial importance for building new homes and for meeting our climate change and retrofitting targets. Apprenticeships in key construction trades, such as bricklaying and plastering, are at only some 10% of their 2004 levels. In other countries, such as the UK and Norway,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education will next meet. [58660/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about people trying to buy homes competing with investors. This is a message I received from a constituent: Today I went...to...look at an apartment to buy. The estate agent automatically assumed I was an investor. The other person at the viewing was bidding on this particular apartment and another upstairs in the same building - with a view to buying both.......

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I referred to apartments.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [57674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a wording for charging orders will be put in place to facilitate mortgage applicants who wish to buy affordable homes through affordable housing schemes such as at Dun Emer, Lusk, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58272/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the liquidation of a company (details supplied) that has left a significant number of persons without their deposits being refunded; the steps he will take in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58326/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the minimum essential qualification for special needs assistants, SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 72-hour obligation and June working will be abolished in relation to special needs assistants, SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure there are enough substitute teachers in place to provide cover to ensure that the mock leaving certificate examinations take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands Examination of Employment Services November 2021 will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58314/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the death certificate for a person (details supplied) which their widow has been awaiting for four months since first applying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58687/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Property Prices Register (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 13 July 2021, the steps that have been taken to address the errors that have been occurring; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58311/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the HSE funding required for the plans submitted by Children’s Health Ireland to help alleviate the pressure on Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals in order that children living with scoliosis and in need of urgent operations can get the help that they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58312/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would prefer to hear a few more contributions before I come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the issue of carbon habitats and carbon capture, I am aware that the marine planning legislation will go through first. Let us say there is an application for permission around seaweed harvesting that could potentially have impacts on species that are at risk of declining or an impact on a habitat that is very important in terms of carbon capture. If the MPA designation is not in place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a concern about that. We do not have enough independent data. We know what we are looking for. We are talking about MPAs, not the consent process around planning. If a planning application is submitted, scientific data must be provided as part of that process and those data would not necessarily come from an independent source. Presumably they would come from consultants on behalf...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the confirmation from the Minister that there will be time allocated by the Government to facilitate this on Committee Stage next week, and that it will move on to Report Stage and Final Stages the week after that in Dáil Éireann. I welcome that and it is important. I am aware that considerable time has been given to this Bill in the Seanad, but it is important that...