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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); if the documents submitted as part of this application will be returned to the applicant’s father; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46909/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 21 September 2021, when these essential works will take place; if her Department will take immediate action to deal with the numerous health and safety risks associated with the conditions in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46910/21]

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I acknowledge the Minister and his officials in the Department put a lot of work into this plan and would have spent a lot of time on it. Let us be clear about what is happening in terms of the comments made earlier by the Minister and in the media. There is an attempt to normalise our housing crisis by saying it is a problem internationally and by pointing to what is going on in other...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not but the Minister was heckling me, as he likes to, and I was referring to those comments and bringing them to his attention, which I am correct to do.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister has said this is an honest plan. There has been a lot of spin on this plan. The first bit of spin was during the launch, where there was a lot of talk about increasing home ownership levels. If this plan is implemented and meets its targets, home ownership levels will continue to decrease in Ireland. That is a fact. Incidentally, that is not for the worst of reasons; it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [43652/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department will play in monitoring and implementing the Housing for All plan. [43653/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the previous election Fianna Fáil promised to build 10,000 affordable homes each year it is in office. These homes are nowhere to be seen. Since the Government has taken office, house prices have increased by more than 10%. In Housing for All the Government commits to giving about €1 billion in subsidies to developers. The Central Bank and the Economic and Social Research...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of the existing housing need that will be met by the revised Housing First targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the introduction of the deposit protection scheme for renters which was legislated for in 2015 has been postponed to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46096/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that his housing policies are not inflating prices even further in view of the latest CSO report which shows that house prices have increased by 8.6% in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46015/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason home care sector workers cannot be recruited from outside the European Economic Area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46000/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will increase official development assistance as part of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45996/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times that An Bord Pleanála has rejected its own inspector's advice to refuse planning approval over the past five years; the locations of these planning applications in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45968/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for their time, for coming in and for the work that has been done on this. On the consideration by the Government of the holding of a referendum, in terms of ensuring public confidence in our water treatment and wastewater infrastructure, it is important we have a referendum to enshrine public ownership of our water infrastructure in the Constitution. We have seen in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that; it would be helpful. My second question is on a different matter. When preparing a Bill like this, I appreciate a huge amount of work goes into it and there are a significant number of different areas to consider. It may not have been part of the consideration but I do want to ask about the use of gender-inclusive language. The general scheme does not use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are told on page 15 of the general scheme about the gender identity of the chair of the board. It will be "The Chairman of the Board of Irish Water". That is not acceptable. I appreciate mistakes can be made, but I would like a commitment that the Bill will use gender-inclusive language. If that cannot be given, fair enough, but that is what I seek.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is fair enough and I accept that. However, I point out in terms of gender-inclusive language that it is not an issue of simply putting in "he" and "she". The United Nations guidelines on this would need to be looked at. It is good that advice will be sought on this.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 241. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45760/21]