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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does it have enough powers?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does it have the powers to do its job?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach have the political guts to make supermarkets publish their profits and have full transparency? This is what I asked him about. Does he have the political guts to actually answer the question I put to him? We are talking about parents skipping meals so their children can eat. We are talking about situations where a child cannot go to a friend's birthday because there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Looking at strengthening the powers of the CCPC is no good. You have to actually act when you are in government. The Government has been looking at strengthening its powers for years but it has not done it. The Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, asking it to do a review like it did in 2023, which did not achieve anything as the Government had not given it extra powers, will not produce...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will ask a couple of questions to follow up on that in a minute. Deputy Devine referred to the Central Bank's housing completion forecast. The forecast was for 35,000 homes for this year, which has been revised to 32,000. Media coverage claims that the Department of housing has been advising the Minister that even the revised forecast might be excessive and he should be looking at a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to return to the discussion on productivity in the construction sector. As noted in the Central Bank's quarterly bulletin, Ireland is 20% below the EU average, and the second lowest among a number of comparable European countries examined, in this regard. It is worrying, at a time when investment should be increasing, that the quarterly report notes that investment in the sector's...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is it fair to say that the ad hoc method of delivery of housing lends itself to smaller scale? Would better land-use regulation, larger-scale projects and larger delivery of infrastructure with a larger-scale delivery of housing by the private sector, the Land Development Agency or whoever it is lend itself to greater levels of productivity? If we had a more co-ordinated and planned...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has provided a letter of support for CIÉ pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money raised through windfall tax receipts used for current expenditure between the years 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that all LGBTQ+ families are provided with legal recognition where the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 is currently failing (details supplied); the actions being taken to include more families in the legislation; if she has engaged with key groups on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the shingles vaccine free for older people; if she will consider this as a measure to help older people with the cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps the Government is taking on an EU level to end the Israeli blockade of food, humanitarian aid and baby formula which is having devastating consequences in children’s hospitals in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has met with the Chairman of the Agri-Food Regulator following his request for a meeting in February; if so, the outcome of that meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (3 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will grant the Agri-Food Regulator the additional powers it has requested to carry out its role effectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36711/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What will fees be in September? Will they be €2,000 or €3,000? This is the fourth time the Minister has been asked that question so could he give a direct answer to that question? What will students and their families be hit with in September? Can the Minister answer that question? In terms of dismissing things, it seems as if this Government is dismissing what it promised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I extend our sympathies to all the family and colleagues of Brother Kevin Crowley. He is someone who gave his life to serve others. The Minister did not tell people during the general election campaign that a vote for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would be a vote to increase college fees. The Minister has been asked twice about this issue. I will ask him a third time. What fees will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is now complete disarray and open revolt in the Government over student fees. Last night, the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, announced he was not happy about this mess. He said he signed up to a programme for Government that clearly promised to reduce fees. He described the threat to increase them by €1,000 as a scud missile nobody was expecting. Can the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have heard enough bluster on this issue. The Government made a commitment in writing, in black and white, to reduce student fees. Will the Government uphold that commitment?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister answer the question concerning what fees will be in September?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: On Vote 13, subhead B6 contains building projects in planning or under construction. I ask the Minister of State about the audit carried out by Deloitte that found that the OPW did not conduct a value for money assessment for the bike shelter project, for example, in advance of the work taking place. Deloitte made a number of recommendations in its audit. Will the Minister of State give us...