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Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy that the Minister is answering some of my questions. Does he care to answer any of the others that I posed?

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Good, I am glad. In fairness, I do think that the Government is taking a constructive approach this evening and everyone welcomes that. The subject goes way above party politics and that is how we all approach it. We all agree that it is much more cost effective to prevent homelessness. It spares families and children the trauma of losing their home and all the stress and negative...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with the other Deputies on vaccines. There should be more time for debate. There should be a questions and answers session as well in order that we can raise the issues we want. We should sit on Friday to facilitate that. We should be doing the same with regard to Brexit. I raised the issue on the Order of Business last week. We want these issues to be dealt with in...

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputies Duncan Smith and Eoghan Murphy for bringing forward the proposal to have this matter debated today and to mark this anniversary. It is important and worth doing. We should be very proud of Ireland's role and the principled stand it has taken over generations against nuclear weapons. Mr. Frank Aiken, Ireland's delegate to the UN in the 1950s, played a crucial role in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 298. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a national audit of Brexit preparedness and readiness has been carried out; if so, if such an audit will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43277/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the vaccine task force is defining housing overcrowding; if it will include persons living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medically vulnerable persons aged under 65 years of age have been placed in vaccine group 7; the group persons with cystic fibrosis and immunocompromised conditions are in; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43317/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank everyone who has done so for coming in and for the work that they do in general. I share the concerns about HAP and how it effects people on lower incomes. Laoise Neylon wrote an excellent article in the Dublin Inquirer on 11 November where she went through some of the personal stories of people in this situation who were in fear of becoming homeless, who had other HAP tenancies...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has provided funding for the purchase of buses which rely on petrol and diesel fossil fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42768/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 1 December 2020, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the OECD Model Treaty upon which section 127B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 is based, was amended in 2017 to say that airline crew should be taxed where they are resident only, therefore this legislation is no longer in accordance with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the average rental income tax paid by landlord per property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42781/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the financing model used by a cooperative (details supplied) to ensure its public purchases represent the best value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42769/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the issued unit cost ceilings for the direct procurement of social housing units by local authorities by unit type, construction and all in costs for each local authority will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42770/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Part V arrangements that have been made for a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42771/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the repayment method for any equity stake in a property purchased under the proposed shared equity scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42772/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the HSE to create a conservation plan and historic landscape assessment for the Cork Street, Fever Hospital, Dublin 8 known as Brú Chaoimhín; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time that new social housing units are vacant prior to being occupied for the first time by local authority area and approved housing body over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42774/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on the housing element of Housing First initiatives in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42777/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of HAP rates promised under the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42779/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the system in place to ensure that HAP tenants, including those already in receipt of the full discretionary allowance, who receive notice of a rent increase will have that increase covered as part of their HAP payment and will not be forced to carry this additional cost on top of their differential rent payments; and if he...