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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...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has issued instructions to local authorities directing that local connection rules are not applied to homeless persons seeking emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42782/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National LGBTI+ Strategy (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 316. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 1 December 2020, if he will provide a list of the 35 actions under the National LGBTI+ Strategy 2020-2021 which have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42775/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the counties in which PrEP is currently available; the steps he will take to ensure universal access for those for whom it is recommended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42776/20]