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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate they rest with the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely. I appreciate that. However, where in the Bill is it explicit that is the case? That is the point I have been making and that is the point I am asking about. It is not in section 31. The Minister of State says it is in many other parts of the Bill, but where?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: These are not just various directives; they are the maritime spatial planning directives. I do not accept in listing them there that they are contradictory. I see the birds directive and habitats directive as complementary. The amendment and the case we have made for it stands well. I have not heard-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is in Schedule 1 but where does it specifically say in the Bill that, in terms of directives, this needs to apply? That is the issue. As far as I can tell it does not, despite what we have heard.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: My position on this is that the Bill should be explicit in terms of the Minister and compliance with the maritime spatial planning directive and the marine strategy directive. This matter is not covered in section 31. I appreciate that the Government must comply with all EU directives, but that does not always happen in full. Indeed, fines have been paid over non-compliance. The Bill is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As Deputy Ó Broin indicated, this amendment seeks to ensure that any new policy directives would be limited by the requirement to be in accordance with the policies in the MPPS. If the Minister of State is not happy with the inclusion of this provision in the Bill, I would like to know why and in what circumstances he foresees that there might be new policy directives that would not be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 73: In page 27, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: " "maritime spatial planning" means— (a) a process by which the relevant Member State’s authorities analyse and organise human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives, as defined in Article 3(2) of the MSP Directive, and in so doing the competent...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not think that any assumptions are being made in the amendments regarding current standard practice. The fact that it is standard practice and good practice is a reason for putting this aspect into the legislation. I take the point, though, that none of us knows what the best place for information will be in 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years' time. If we look through legislation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise the issue of safeguarding procedures for vulnerable adults. Recently, An Garda Síochána had detailed knowledge of credible allegations of sexual assault against vulnerable people experiencing homelessness. I have raised that with the Taoiseach before. The Garda did not pass this information on in a timely manner to the organisation where the alleged perpetrator worked....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met. [48202/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise the issue of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and the sale of homes to investment funds. Building defects do not explain why the homes in question - 26 apartments - were left empty for almost a decade. They do not explain the length of time involved. It should not take so long. The Government is not meeting its target for the delivery of cost-rental and affordable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: What about cost-rental and affordable homes?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why are they not being sold for cost-rental and affordable housing?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new Educate Together primary school in Baldoyle has gone to tender; if she will provide the details on the development going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51517/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 258. To ask the Minister for Health if fibromyalgia will be recognised as a disability and a long-term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 259. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include chronic pain such as that suffered by persons with fibromyalgia as criteria to apply for the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51525/21]

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will start close to where Deputy Nash finished, namely, with the issue of tenancies of indefinite duration. I will certainly support such a measure when the Government brings it in. I was a member of the commission on the private rented residential sector approximately 20 years ago. I did not agree with the commission's decision to include a get-out clause in respect of the very limited...

Property Services (Land Price Register) Bill 2021: First Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to provide for transparency regarding transactions involving property and for those purposes to expand the register that records residential property sales prices, to establish a land and other non-residential property transaction database and to provide for...

Property Services (Land Price Register) Bill 2021: First Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Likewise, I will do my best to make sure things move quickly while seeking to do our job well and give the Bill the scrutiny it needs. By way of brief opening comment before I get into the amendments, this is a very important Bill. It is long overdue. It is needed. I have concerns about the protection of our fragile marine environment and whether this Bill will be sufficient in that...