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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is at the end of June.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: An image popped up on my social media last night showing two boys in Rafah, their tiny bodies crushed under mountains of debris, the latest victims of Israel's atrocities in Gaza. The world will probably never know their names. We will not know how many siblings they had, what their favourite hobby was, what they wanted to be when they grew up, how scared they were for the past seven...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 30 April 2024, if she will review the legislation for sexual offences against children where a perpetrator lives very close to the child in question, regardless of whether the crime was a first offence, and where the child is likely to see the perpetrator; if she will work to...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "which Ireland is now facing": "; and calls on the Government to introduce legislation to allow for the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing as defined in Parts 2 and 3 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.". We are in the middle of a housing disaster. We have record levels of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of the well-being of children, I wish to ask the Taoiseach about Gaelcholáiste Reachrann in Donaghmede. It has highly committed staff who do an excellent job. It was founded in 2001, and 23 years later the students are still being taught in prefabs. This is in stark contrast to many other schools that have opened since and for which permanent school buildings have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the new unit in his Department to tackle child poverty. [20567/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are in the middle of a housing crisis. We have record rents, record house prices, record numbers of adults living in their childhood bedrooms and record levels of homelessness. Given this, why is the Government incentivising landlords to keep homes empty? A prominent financial adviser has announced that he tells some of his landlord clients to leave rental accommodation vacant for two...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has any plans to alter the structure of the SEAI retrofitting grant scheme to award the grants up front in order to provide security to homeowners around the process and incentivise uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details on a squash club at the back of a school (details supplied); is this in the ownership of her Department; if there are any plans for its use, as it has been vacant for some time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a scheme to acknowledge teaching years accrued abroad for the purposes of determining salary, in order to entice teachers who have emigrated to return; if this could be considered as a measure to increase trained teachers in Ireland and address the teacher shortage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she intends to take to address the shortage of 13 teachers due to recruitment difficulties at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new buy-and-renew homes delivered in each of the years 2016 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people working in his Department's vacant homes unit. [20293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families who have been in homeless emergency accommodation for over six months; the number who have been in homeless emergency accommodation for over one year; broken down by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20285/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer of the affordable homes delivered with the affordable housing fund in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20292/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all stalled capital advance loan facility-funded social housing projects, indicating the local authority in which they are located and the number of homes involved in each location; the measures he intends to take to get these projects up and running; if he will ensure that other projects are not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in the vacant sites levy each year from 2019 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether a senior counsel was appointed to pursue accountability from suppliers of defective concrete blocks; if he will provide an update on the work of this appointed SC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20296/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of minimum standards for private-rented accommodation inspections carried out by environmental health officers between 2020 and 2024; the number of improvement letters issued as a result; the number of improvement notices and the number of enforcement proceedings initiated, broken down by local authority and year;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the report conducted by a person (details supplied) into allegations of malpractice and conflicts of interest at An Bord Pleanála is made public as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20676/24]