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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disability Act Employment Targets (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is provision for persons with a disability in the rapid response and election observer public competitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29884/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disability Act Employment Targets (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to reform the election observation roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29885/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disability Act Employment Targets (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 23 September 2020, if the application forms of roster members that contain their addresses have been retained; if so, if he will provide a breakdown between roster members that gave an address in the island of Ireland versus those that live overseas; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if injury at work leave will be provided to teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding and resources will be provided to enable schools to provide for students who need access to technology and the internet outside of the classroom; if her attention has been drawn in particular to this need within the Traveller community; the steps she will take to provide internet and device access in the homes of students who do not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue best practice guidelines to teachers on the best way to approach textbooks that contain racist language or racial slurs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29888/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 331. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an additional €4.7 million in funding for youth work services in 2021 will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 336. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports from parents that some crèches are no longer accepting the national childcare scheme (details supplied); the percentage of crèches availing of the scheme; the measures being taken to reduce barriers to uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29765/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 339. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase investment in youth services including services such as an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29895/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if automatic renewals of visas for Venezuelans whose passports expired will be provided, similar to what is currently provided in the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Abuse (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 481. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of allegations of child sexual abuse that are recommended as unfounded each year by St. Clare’s Unit in Temple Street Hospital in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29881/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: That should be two separate areas. There is a range of issues to do with land, not least the five reports that have been compiled. Every other area, including housing affordability and determining value for money and what is working in terms of uptake, is part of another piece of work entirely. While I realise we are trying to consolidate as much as we can, I strongly favour two separate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: If we are looking at learnings from Covid, we should do so relatively soon and it should not be far down the programme. If we are including it, we should list Orla Hegarty from UCD as a potential witness because she would have a good deal of information on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: It should probably be lessons from Covid in relation to housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: We could cover a few of those things, and try to do it relatively soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would be very happy if that was included as a category along with the other measures we will look at in terms of an analysis of State funded schemes. I ask that it is named as one, along with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, that works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Ó Broin covered a lot of it. There has been a huge amount of work done internationally on land by, for example, the Scottish Land Commission. Countries like Germany do a lot more around land. It does bring down the cost of land and it does much more master planning. It is an entire category we could do in Ireland that is not covered under existing schemes. We can explore that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with the Senator, those are two separate things. The extended approval process definitely needs to be looked at and sorting it out is one of the keys to sorting out the issues around social housing. The funding of maintenance and management of social housing stock must also be addressed. There are some proposals for doing that in the programme for Government. We are heading into...