Results 1-12 of 12 for 5 million speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., speculators and land hoarders. When it comes to housing, this budget is taken straight out of the Fianna Fáil developer's handbook, and continues the disastrous approach of giving hundreds of millions of euro, in subsidies and tax reliefs, away to investors in measures that will not build one single additional home. What does this budget mean for renters? Since this Government...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...) of the 2004 legislation, we now have, "Where the Minister is minded to take a Register action which, if taken, will cause a registered monument to cease to be a registered monument" in section 17(5). I object to the term "a register action". What a way to try and hide, through the misuse and abuse of language, the fact that this Bill will facilitate the Minister to demolish a monument...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...energy components of the household benefits package. Unfortunately, the Government only saw fit to widen eligibility for fuel allowance to jobseekers who have been on the payment for more than 12 months, down from 15 months. Furthermore, basic social welfare payments only increased by €5 in budget 2022. There were no attempts to increase the qualified child payment to assist...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...this is the standard practice in some areas. As Deputy Nash said, there are professions where it happens. This is not a standard area. It is an area where the cost of pyrite remediation is €150 million, the cost of other defects in buildings as reported today is at €160 million, the cost of faulty wastewater system is €300 million and we do not know what the cost...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...my comments on section 4 on additional information. The wording in the Bill seems better to me than was originally signalled. I am concerned, however, about how much it could be curtailed. I have a particular concern that section 5 could potentially go against the principle of use it or lose it, on which the Minister has been very strong both since taking office and in opposition....

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...to substitute consent which resulted in fines for Ireland for failure to comply with EU environmental impact assessment requirements at the Derrybrien wind farm. Ireland has paid fines of more than €14 million. The Government facilitating just 30 minutes for scrutiny is a mistake and it is a completely unacceptable practice. Those mistakes should not be repeated. This is...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: This day two weeks ago, I raised with the Tánaiste the sale of 435 apartments in Ashtown, Dublin 15, which were sold off to a foreign investment company that is based in Germany. I suggested this practice should be banned, and the Tánaiste stated I was being ideological. When my colleague, Deputy Shortall, raised the issue of international investment funds with the Tánaiste,...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the Minister referred found price inflation of only 1% caused by the UK equity scheme. That, however, contradicts other sources in the UK on the UK scheme that show a price premium of between 5% and 20% paid by people who bought new-build homes under the UK scheme, as opposed to people who did not. Furthermore, the report did not comment on price inflation when it referred to that 1%....

Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...was given at the time to the viability of the new commercial State agency, with aviation then being a growing and profitable industry. The figures given at the time stated that of the €200 million in revenue per year seen by the air traffic control provider, €122 million came from en routeservices. These were transatlantic flights which did not land in Ireland. Figures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarification on the planned investment of €5 million in DEIS schools; the rationale for limiting planned class reductions to DEIS band 1 senior schools only; if she will provide additional resources, including staffing resources to all DEIS band one schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32693/20]

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...a threat to business, jobs, workers' rights, tackling low pay and tackling climate change. The biggest threat to the Irish economy in that scenario is the WTO tariffs. We could be looking at €1.5 billion being imposed in tariffs, which would have a devastating effect on the exporters of Irish goods into the UK. Some 43% of all our food exports, as the Tánaiste will know, go...