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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]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to work with international colleagues in the UK and EU and on the UN Security Council to support the call by the WHO for the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine globally to include persons living in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6452/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the aid Ireland has provided to the Tigray region of Ethiopia in recent weeks; if he has raised the humanitarian crisis in the region with international partners or at the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7341/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his Department will publish updated figures for Ireland's 2019 climate finance contributions as required under the Paris Climate Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 389. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Army Ranger Wing personnel deployed with the German armed forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7340/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will carry out a review of a school (details supplied) to ascertain if DEIS status can be given to the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6538/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the joint statement by associations (details supplied); if she will engage with both organisations in order to hear the concerns of all parents and ensure that they are represented on all advisory groups in relation to post-primary education, particularly in relation to the leaving certificate; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (10 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 559. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which crèches can operate in February 2020; the persons who can avail of the services; if his Department is providing the funding in order that fees can be waived for parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7076/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Quinlan and his team for all the work they have done on this Bill. I will read some quotes from officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding their thoughts on this shared equity loan part of the Bill. One official stated that the: ... key point is that this is a demand led scheme. [The Department of Finance] and [the Department of Housing, Local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (9 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Quinlan. It is important that there has been a significant critique of this aspect of the Bill, both from the perspective of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and also a significant critique on it in the UK. As we are doing pre-legislative scrutiny, it is very important that we would see the analysis from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage...