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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: To clarify, when I talk about affordability, I am not just talking about tenure type. You can have affordable housing, affordable rent or rent as a tenure type. I am talking about affordability in general. One of the blockages for people in accessing housing in cities in terms of compact growth is affordability. It can be more affordable to access housing such as private tenure housing in...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I commend Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh, the Women of Honour and the women in the FAI for speaking out, which they should not have felt the need to do. I commend, in particular, Ms Natasha O'Brien for challenging homophobic abuse. I and many others like me enjoy a degree of freedom in our public spaces because people like Ms O'Brien defend us. It is a diminishing degree of freedom in our...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On behalf of the Social Democrats, I support this Bill. I thank Deputy Farrell for bringing this Bill forward and I thank the students and student representatives who have worked on this Bill and have been campaigning on it from the different student unions and colleges, and from the USI - Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éireann. First, I take issue with the Minister of State's response...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...planning framework is the key framework. In terms of the planning system, it could not be more important or more significant. There are huge problems because there is not a lot of public buy-in to national planning policy or a lot of understanding of it. This leads to a good deal of conflict, which then leads to delays in the delivery of much-needed infrastructure and housing. We have...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is no problem at all. I was beginning to wonder whether some of the Deputies were proposing the community gardens should be placed on roadways, based on the way the conversation was going. I thought that was a very radical suggestion. Some radical environmentalists subscribe to that idea of guerilla gardening, so perhaps that is where that discussion was going. Returning to the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On my amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 597, I would welcome more clarity from the Minister on the definition of "statutory undertaker". This is a significant section in the context of State authority development emergency orders effectively allowing for emergency works. I am not exactly clear on the significance of that wording. If the Minister could provide an explanation, it would be...

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...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleague Deputy Shortall for her work in bringing forward this motion. It is very disappointing that the Minister for Health is not here and that the second junior Minister who has just come to join this debate is not connected to the Department in any way. The response the Minister of State has just read out does not address many of the fundamental issues we have listed in the...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and giving us the opportunity to discuss these important issues around housing. There is one question I have asked myself and that I wish to pose here. When the Government states that it thinks its Housing for All plan is working, does it really believe that? Is it that disconnected from what is happening in people's lives or is it just...

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...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Forty-three years. I join others in welcoming the families to the Gallery and saying the unlawful killing verdict is very welcome, the formal State apology that has been given is very welcome and the inquests' conclusion as to how the fire started and why it spread so rapidly is welcome. It has put to bed once and for all the original tribunal’s conclusion that the fire was probably...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: From my work as a public representative and my interactions with people in the local community, I will comment and use an example not to do with judicial review. We could be working on any issue in the local area, such as being involved with a Tidy Towns group or writing a letter for that kind of group. Even when it comes to something as uncontroversial as that, I know from interactions on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Duffy mentioned, that it can be more affordable and accessible. There are also huge advantages in terms of community-building and everything that falls out of that as well, such as people getting to know their neighbours, well-being and mental health benefits, and people feeling safer in an area where they are part of a good community. When communities are involved in designing their own...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...in Ireland by comparison with our neighbouring country, for example. If you go walking in England, you will find rights of way everywhere. England has an incredibly good network that puts us to shame. When we see things done well in neighbouring countries, we always ask why we cannot do the same here. Walking recreationally on the extensive network of rights of way in England is an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, and Deputy Ó Snodaigh has covered this as well in his comments. What I want to ask about, because the legislation is not clear and the Minister says he will do this by regulation, is what a commencement of works would look like. I have concerns about the ambiguity around that in the legislation. The Minister says he will do it by regulation but as we cannot see the regulations...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the use of planning guidelines but it misses the point I am making. Public consultation can be invaluable. What the public raises during a consultation can be invaluable. When it comes to any development, including housing, it is important that people get to have their say in it and get their voices heard. They can often raise issues that can be solved or addressed. In my area there...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to add to the comments that have been made about the former committee member, Deputy Emer Higgins, who is now a Minister of State. She certainly made a good contribution to this committee. I believe amendment No. 674 strengthens this section. It moves away from arbitrary criteria like one year or ten members to much more important criteria. For example, it includes that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It would make sure that local authorities did not fail people on this. As legislators, it is our job to craft legislation in a way that does not leave things to the local authority but instead makes sure we address where there have been huge failings all over the country that are continuing. There is an opportunity to fix that in this Bill but the Government will not take it. All the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Section 84(3)(h) could refer to the phasing of the development and the sequencing of works but it does not ensure timely completion of public areas and their being handed over to the local authority and taken in charge. It absolutely does not ensure that. Sections 84(3)(j) and 84(3)(k) simply allow for conditions around maintenance until such time as those areas might be taken in charge,...