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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...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It ties into the payment approvals process because part of the way the Department justifies it is by stating that it is an accountability measure.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is important to invite in the outside bodies first. It would not be much use to have the Department witnesses in first and then to have all the questions we want to ask them subsequent to that. It is often the case that when the Department responds we might decide it is a fair enough response or that it is not and we should try to amend that aspect or whatever. I believe that order is...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with that. Lessons from Covid should be near the top of the agenda. If we are talking about the first four or five meetings we should include that.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: We were asked as a committee to do that.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will remedy the breach of the European Social Charter by Ireland by allowing an association (details supplied) join a union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (8 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a shortage of personnel is affecting the operational efficiency of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28522/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes (8 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to provide community employment supervisors access to pensions in line with the 2008 Labour Court recommendation to provide access to an occupational pension scheme and the 2015 Lansdowne Road agreement that progress would be made on this issue during the lifetime of that agreement; and if he will make a...

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I back the comments on low pay by a previous Deputy. The best way to ensure economic recovery is to get money circulating in the economy by tackling low pay. When people on low pay get a pay increase it goes straight back into the local economy. It is circular. We can see from the data at the moment that people on higher incomes have a higher level of savings. Part of that is because...