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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]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 248. 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. [45805/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How is it possible that staff working in treatment plans would not know how to respond to alarm systems going off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The alarm system was working, it is just that the staff did not know how to respond to it. Is that the understanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As things currently stand, Irish Water does not know what went wrong in terms of equipment or processes. Is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How often are the alarm systems checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: To be clear, are the alarm systems checked daily in our water treatment plants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: How often is periodically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: These alarm systems are of critical importance in terms of our public water. Do we know how often they are checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just that periodically does not mean much. Periodically could be anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Will the audits on the 20 plants that are being done now be published? If so, when?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, I thank Deputy Bacik for bringing forward this Bill. The Social Democrats will support this Bill's passage to Committee Stage as there are many positive measures in the Bill. That is, of course, if the Government majority on the committee actually allow time for this to be scrutinised on Committee Stage. No time to date has been allocated and given to Opposition or Government...