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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...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 14: In page 19, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “ “prescribed bodies” as referred to in this Act for the purposes of consultation, shall include at least the following: (a) Fáilte Ireland; (b) the Marine Institute; (c) the Environmental Protection Agency; (d) the National Parks and Wildlife Service; (e) the Heritage...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding the point that it may not be relevant to certain bodies, as the Minister of State is aware, usually the way it works with prescribed bodies is that they are given the opportunity to formally input. They often decide an issue is not relevant to them and they skip over it, or sometimes they decide that it is relevant. It is a very safe system in that sense, in that none of the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Have these parts of the Bill been looked at in terms of compliance with access to environmental information? Why is what we are suggesting not considered appropriate? I do not understand that and perhaps the Minister of State would elaborate.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to make one point. I live in a coastal community. I accept the Minister of State’s logic in saying that every member of the public has to have access to public consultation and that nobody should be disadvantaged in that regard. However, we should be clear that people engage in fishing and their representatives have played, and will need to play, an important role in their...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That was quite a positive response from the Minister of State.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 30: In page 23, to delete lines 35 to 39 and substitute the following: “(6) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister shall from time to time prepare for approval by the Oireachtas, and publication, and in accordance with this section and section 31— (a) a statement (in this Act referred to as the “marine planning policy statement”)...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman for that information. I thank the officials for yesterday's briefing, which I found helpful. I also found Deputy Boyd Barrett's questions at that briefing helpful. I wish to address amendment No. 33. It is a very good amendment. I am biased, of course, as I submitted it and a number of others, but it would create a considerable amount of structure around marine...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the point about the hierarchy in terms of acting consistently with or having regard to, it is worth noting that there is a good precedent from the Government on doing that in legislation. For example, the new section 3(3) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill does it. I commend the Government for doing that in that Bill and recommend that it follows that good...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for that. It was helpful because there were a whole of series of questions lined up for him so it is better to get those answered to inform us.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On where the marine planning policy statements interact with the other parts of Bill and the other frameworks like the marine planning framework and so forth, the Minister of State is saying it is in section 6(1).