Results 1-20 of 6,178 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan
- 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...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: -----but not ours. I said if I did not know better.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: When the Minister took office, there was a successful, viable model of how to deliver affordable purchase housing. Ó Cualann was building high-quality homes at prices that families on middle incomes could afford. For example, three-bedroom, A2-rated semi-detached homes at Dun Emer, Lusk, were available for €258,000. Instead of expanding this model of housing delivery, the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I asked about early-stage finance. Will the Minister of State please answer the question?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That is delusional.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I am.