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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Examinations (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if third level students will be provided with an option to sit all summer 2021 examinations online due to the current Covid-19 pandemic; the additional safety measures that have been put in place for third level students who will sit examinations in person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26416/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the comments he has made. I am very supportive of a directly elected mayor. Democratic accountability is a key function. The Minister of State and the other members are correct to say that it is very important to get this right. What happens will be watched by people in other parts of the State. What is the thinking on the timing of holding a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Home Building Finance Ireland was set up by the State to provide funding for small builders to build homes for first-time buyers. We learned from media reports this week that €300 million of State funds channelled to Home Building Finance Ireland has gone to large developers to build homes that are then sold on to investment funds to rent out. In these instances, we are talking about...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if a list will be provided of the activate capital investments for which Ireland Strategic Investment Fund capital was used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulatory measures in place through local authorities or the Housing Agency under leasing arrangements; the payment and availability agreements through enhanced leasing in cases in which State funding has been provided to private operators and investors in relation to the provision of housing; the specific due diligence...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the introduction of enhanced leasing; the private organisations that were involved in seeking the introduction of the enhanced leasing scheme; the analysis that had been made on the impact on the introduction of the enhanced leasing scheme, the delivery gap or target group that enhanced leasing was intended to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the monitoring arrangements in place to establish the scale of building sites and construction projects, which were intended and planned for delivery of social and cost-rental housing by approved housing bodies and have now, subsequently, been purchased by private investment funds and are no longer part of his pipeline of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of financial return for private operators planned as part of his cost rental proposals in the Affordable Housing Bill 2020; and the regulatory, governance and due diligence arrangements he has planned for private operators to ensure viability and transparency of cost-rental housing in cases in which they are not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to ensure that routine dental services are kept going and not stopped or delayed due to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25185/21]

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputies Ó Broin and Doherty for tabling the motion. I was looking forward to hearing what the Minister's proposals and solutions would be. I was disappointed that instead he used most of his time to engage the usual attack on Opposition parties. That is probably designed to deflect and avoid responsibility. I would like to hear more proposals. Last week, we were promised by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland last met. [23211/21]