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Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State to reconsider this. The case for this amendment has been made strongly. Yesterday in the audiovisual room, Members of the House from Opposition and Government parties heard directly from women who are survivors of domestic abuse and have gone through horrendous situations. They spoke passionately about the lack of support for them and the lack of refuge places...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also welcome this. It is very important. Like others, I have spoken to people who have been treated absolutely abysmally by some of these credit servicing firms. These include people who have been harassed or who have tried to get out of the situation and tried to sell. On contacting the firms to say they want to sell, they have been told that if they want to talk about that, then they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach says there will have to be forward planning in the future. Why is that forward planning not taking place under this Government? Why did it not take place under the previous Government? The crisis in special education is simply getting worse under the Taoiseach's watch. There are now hundreds of parents who do not know if their children will have a school place in September....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach see something wrong with parents who have a huge amount on their hands being cast into the role of project managing to try to get a school place for their child? There is something fundamentally wrong with that. What is the Taoiseach doing to sort this out? Parents should not be put in that situation. The Taoiseach said 400 special classes have been promised to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will open a reading school in the Killester, Raheny, Clontarf school planning area, given there is currently no provision for children who have dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 33. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [7946/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I recently met the campaign group Access for All and one of the issues they raised with me was how the housing crisis is affecting disabled people in particular. As the Taoiseach will be aware, the Ombudsman has said that more than 1,200 disabled people under the age of 65 are living in nursing homes. Nursing homes are a completely unsuitable setting for younger people. It affects their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [7945/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet. [9488/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the well-being of CIÉ pensioners. For decades, former CIÉ workers had their pension payments rise in line with wage increases. However, when the economic crash happened, CIÉ halted both pay and pension increases. While pay rises for current staff have been restored, pensioners have had their income frozen for over 16 years. This is leaving...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6307/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is what the Taoiseach told the Dáil when he was in opposition: Earlier this year, the Minister for Defence signalled that he would try to water down Ireland's commitment to the triple lock, which is at the core of our neutrality. He presented the idea it was contradictory and that we were giving unsavoury countries a veto over our actions. This argument has been behind the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why has the Taoiseach capitulated to Fine Gael on this?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Since the United Nations was founded, Ireland has stood steadfast for peace, multilateralism and acting only through a United Nations mandate. These have been core pillars of our international policy. This was something the Taoiseach used to recognise. He said attempts to dismantle the triple lock were "an out-of-touch ideological obsession on the part of Fine Gael which ignores the facts...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government is ripping up a multilateral approach. It absolutely is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It absolutely is. We have a multilateral approach and ripping up the triple lock would bring us into a unilateral approach. That is absolutely the case.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The UN mandate gives a legitimacy to peacekeeping missions which would be impossible to replace. The blue beret our troops have worn with pride offers them a huge level of protection, and instead of acknowledging that, the Government is undermining this. In the election, Fianna Fáil promised reform of the triple lock, not to tear it to shreds. Yet another election promise is in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the provision of a new Garda station at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that local authorities that have not received their 2025 social acquisition from his Department cannot proceed with the tenant-in-situ scheme; when the 2025 acquisition will be provided to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9632/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 622. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies currently in CNDT teams throughout the country, broken down by CHO area, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9530/25]