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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I understood we were rotating the meeting so it should be Senator Moynihan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is fine, but in general every second meeting was what was agreed between Senator Moynihan and me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have two questions for the EPA and I will ask the representatives of SWAN for a comment if I have time. SWAN believes that the risk-based assessment is done only on the water framework directive and that appears to be the case based on comments from the EPA. Is the risk-based assessment done on the water framework directive or does it look at wider issues and impacts on habitats and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Gurrie for that reply. In my ten years as a councillor, I served on the management committee of the Howth special area amenity order. Within that is a special area of conservation. We did extensive work in that ten years on a range of issues. The changes in groundwater and drainage as well abstractions had major impacts on the habitats and the biodiversity in the area....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Do the representatives from SWAN want to make any comments on these points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will make one point and then the EPA can quickly come in on this. On the risk assessment and how it is being looked at for water abstraction, I refer to the other changes with water courses around drainage and what is going to be happening around climate change. Has all of that been included in the risk assessment and analysis that has been done on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there not a concern that there is often not enough information at a local level on these different aspects, including changes to the drainage of water courses and water bodies, to inform this properly?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Recycling Policy (4 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that recycling facilities are provided in all apartment buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34390/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to Covid-19 testing on arrival here from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33371/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on excluding private coach operators from the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33215/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons with driver tests scheduled during the current level 5 restrictions will be given priority once scheduling reopens; if the option of a refund on a test cancelled during this time will be offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 433. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for excluding private coach operators from the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33214/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Coastal Erosion (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 333 of 15 September 2020 and 143 of 13 October 2020, if the steering group will visit locations, for example, in north County Dublin, currently suffering the effects of coastal erosion and flooding in order to witness the effects of coastal erosion and flooding as part of informing its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Tailte Éireann Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32544/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made in implementing the Constitutional Convention recommendation from 2013 that measures be taken to improve voter turnout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact of the EWSS on the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme in preventing applicants from drawing down their mortgage if their employer is availing of EWSS to pay them; the steps he will take to address this and ensure that those approved for a loan will be able to draw down funds;...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Honours (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 674. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if medals will be awarded to the surviving soldiers from the siege of Jadotville; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 675. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the complex legal, operational and management questions posed by membership of a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make available the data set used to calculate the final results for 2020 leaving certificate students, in anonymised form, to the public domain and provide a clear statement of the algorithm and a worked example based on the data set. [32365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarification on the planned investment of €5 million in DEIS schools; the rationale for limiting planned class reductions to DEIS band 1 senior schools only; if she will provide additional resources, including staffing resources to all DEIS band one schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32693/20]