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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 469.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person on invalidity pension was refused a fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25196/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 478.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the backlog of social welfare appeals, which are pending while the Social Welfare Appeals Office assesses the impact of the ruling of the CJEU (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25348/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 479.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, on foot of the ruling of the CJEU in a case (details supplied) in December 2023, there has been any consideration or consultation with the Department of Justice with a view to amending S.I. 548 of 2015 (the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015) and in particular Article 11 of those...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 480.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the domiciliary care allowance tax credit to 18 years of age to provide support for people with disabilities who are still in secondary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25351/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 802.To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the system in place for people on the drugs payment scheme where they are renting a CPAP machine, where a person has to fill out the required form every month for the same repeated cost of the machine; if an easier system can be considered for life-long use of a CPAP machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25197/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are 700 vacant posts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Madison Maher is seven years old. She lives on the northside of Dublin. Maddie has an autism diagnosis. She is non-verbal and has a moderate learning disability. Maddie's assessment of need was carried out when she was just three years old. Since then, she has not been offered any of the necessary...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was not asking the Tánaiste about assessments of need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was giving the Tánaiste the specific example of a child who was assessed, referred to a CDNT and has been waiting for half her life and got no supports and none of the services or therapies she needs. She is now in severe difficulty as a result. I ask if the Tánaiste can answer this question. He has said 165 job offers have been made.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is out of 800 additional posts that he said were approved. With 700 existing vacancies, 165 job offers are not going to cut it. Maddie has waited half her life for the supports she urgently needs. She is suffering as a result of the lack of intervention. She is now likely to need surgery as a result. She cannot afford to wait any longer. Thousands of children are in the same...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking the Minister of State about early stage finance to get the affordable purchase homes we need. He is not answering. He clearly cannot answer and the Minister who can answer is sitting beside him and will not answer the question, which is completely unacceptable. I will read from correspondence sent to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, recently by the Ó Cualann Cohousing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the Minister of State going to say anything about early stage finance? That is what my question is about. Does he have anything to say about it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is for providing early stage finance for affordable purchase homes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Then why are these not getting off the ground?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: If the Minister wants to answer, he should go on and answer.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have just asked the question here now and you will not answer it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No answer has been given.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that enough affordable housing is built to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24356/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the previous election, the Government promised it would deliver 10,000 affordable homes each and every year. Not only did it fail to deliver on this promise, it failed to meet the much more modest targets it set last year, when only 499 affordable purchase homes were actually delivered. The Minister promised when we previously had oral questions that he would answer my priority question....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am specifically asking about affordable purchase homes because of the lack of early-stage finance to get projects off the ground. The last time I attended oral questions on housing, the Minister said he would answer the question the next time. He has shown disregard for that. If I did not know better, I would think he has shown favouritism and bias towards Sinn Féin by answering its...