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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Dr. O'Connell for those answers.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (11 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration is being given to the impact of housing affordability when the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund decides to invest in residential property; if analysis on the impact on residential property prices is being carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7574/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (11 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund retains ownership when it invests in residential properties through third-party investment companies that sign long-term leases with State agencies, local authorities or approved housing bodies for properties at the end of the long-term lease; if a value-for-money analysis is being undertaken of these financing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to councils for social housing; the range by the lowest to the highest amount spent by each council on social housing in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the rule to stop employees claiming redundancy during the emergency period will be extended past 31 March 2021; if persons who have lost their jobs will be able to claim redundancy for the period of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7346/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason some self-employed travel agents are being refused support under the Covid restrictions support scheme for not having a walk-in service, even though other travel businesses that do not operate walk-in services are availing of the scheme; if he will extend the scheme to include non-client facing travel agents; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of EU legislation will be debated and ratified by the Houses of the Oireachtas; if so, when same will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6824/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 was last reviewed; the impacts the provision of the Act are having on the biodiversity of river systems; if the Act will be reformed to meet the challenges of the climate crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7336/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Coastal Protection (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the national coastal change management strategy steering group has met since its first meeting was held in late August, early September 2020; the exact dates of each meeting; the list of attendees for each meeting; the bodies or agencies they represent; the items discussed at each meeting; the decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the terms of reference for a review commissioned by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and the HSE into recent deaths in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the terms of reference of the detailed review of recent deaths in homeless services being under taken on behalf of the DRHE and the HSE include an examination of whether or not support plans were in place for persons who died; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing a protocol in order that a review is carried out each time a homeless person dies similar to the adult safeguarding reviews carried out in the UK which include engagement with all the services that supported the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7075/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority council housing tenants are permitted to make complaints to the Residential Tenancies Board given that social housing tenants of approved housing bodies are permitted; if not, if he will consider amending the relevant legislation to permit council tenants to take complaints to the RTB; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increased waiting times to access homeless HAP; the steps taken to reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current waiting times for access to homeless HAP; the way in which these waiting times compare to 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the per-person cost of Housing First; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7339/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if recently retired and resigned local authority planning officials are subject to a cooling-off period after they retire or resign before they can go out on their own as private sector planners; if so, the length of the cooling-off period; if there is an enforcement mechanism in circumstances in which there is a suspected...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Natura 2000 (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to providing public information signage at appropriate locations for a European Natura 2000 site (details supplied) to ensure better public understanding of the site and the reasons for its designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Tests (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 359. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if personnel and passengers on a plane (details supplied) that stayed overnight in Ireland were tested on entering the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Tests (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 360. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of personnel and passengers that were on board a plane (details supplied); if they were carrying weaponry and ammunition; if the aircraft was inspected by members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6424/21]