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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a specific question for Sinn Féin and then a question for the other parties. On a question for Deputy Ó Broin regarding the information stored on interactions at the doors, does that include voting intention or political profiles of individual voters? How long is that data stored for? Would an interaction at the door with an individual voter during the 2014 local elections...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: When the Deputy says two electoral cycles, is that two general election cycles and two local election cycles, which is potentially ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, it could be held for ten years. With respect to the other party representatives, do any of their parties' candidates or public representatives at a constituency or local level hold information on the voting intention or political profile of individual voters? The representatives might address that in the order of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is abundantly clear that the Government supports 100% of new build apartments being sold off to investment funds. That has been made clear by the Government over the past couple of weeks, especially with the proposals announced last night. Why does the Government not support home ownership for smaller households, individuals and older couples who may want to move out of a family home...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26500/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [26689/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Has the Taoiseach raised at European Union level the need for support for the International Criminal Court to investigate potential war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem? If he has not raised that, will he?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (19 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the US Navy helicopter that landed at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel on 13 May 2021, at approximately 9am and took off again at approximately 10.30am, was carrying weapons or munitions or was engaged in a military operation or exercise or engaged in intelligence gathering activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26839/21]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Following on from what Deputy Smith said, there is significant anger and it is not just from young people. People in their 30s and 40s who would have aspired to own a home and in previous generations, working hard, saving and putting their shoulder to a wheel, would have been able to afford a home, are increasingly angry about this and about being locked out of home ownership. Older...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The State has provided €500 million to Activate Capital, among the investments of which is housing at Blackhall Place that was built by a private developer and is being leased to Dublin City Council for approximately €2,000 per month per home. Why is the State providing funding to developers to build homes that will be leased to the State at such rents? Effectively, the State...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support the proposal by Deputy Duncan Smith on aviation. I wrote to the Business Committee this week looking for time for the Minister for Finance to come to the Dáil to answer questions on the hundreds of millions of euro in State funds that are being used to invest in investment funds that are buying up houses, pushing up rents and driving out first-time buyers. The Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Grant Payments (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the criteria for receiving a car adaptation grant is that a person must not have the function of two limbs, either both arms or both legs and that this excludes persons such as those with cerebral palsy that often have one side of their body effected and do not have the full use of an arm and a leg; the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 306. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of relief that has been granted to date under section 604A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 introduced in the Finance Act 2012 which provides capital gains tax relief on property bought between 7 December 2011 and 31 December 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26122/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Records (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the briefing note from his Department on 5 May 2021 in relation to institutional investors developing new apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26169/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will take steps to begin systemically testing the bathing waters of Dublin Bay at ten different locations daily for the next 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a planning application is made for a build to rent scheme, if the applicant is required to flag this in their application; if so, the way it is flagged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 427. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland's delegation at the United Nations attended a human rights briefing on the persecution of Uyghurs in China on 12 May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26123/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Sign Language (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 5 May 2021, the reason Irish Sign Language has not yet been included as a curricular subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 590. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funded recreation programmes such as community youth groups, youth led projects, sports and art that will be available for young persons in summer 2021 in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25661/21]