Results 1-10 of 10 for construction industry council speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...complex. As a country, we declared a climate emergency in 2019. We are behind in terms of getting our carbon emissions down and 11% of carbon emissions are coming from the building process and the building industry. There are technologies out there that could be used today if there was an obligation to use them and they would significantly reduce that percentage. For example, we have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, it is worth noting that timber is not only not a modern method of construction. In fact, it is really oldest method of construction. Buildings were made of timber before even stone or concrete. Hundreds of years ago, the buildings and houses in Dublin city were constructed out of timber. We sometimes hear it referred to as some sort of modern or novel use but it is not. As the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...we would also provide early-stage finance to get affordable housing projects off the ground so the design and planning costs could be met. We would also provide for multi-annual funding over five years for modular and off-site construction in order to give the industry the certainty it needs to scale up production to at least 5,000 modular homes a year. This would kick-start an...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...block crisis. The Government is gung-ho about introducing this levy. It is reasonable to ask where the same enthusiasm is for ensuring strong, robust and effective regulation of the building industry. Why is there not the same enthusiasm for going after those responsible for defects? Why is the Government not ensuring the accountability of developers and companies that have caused...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion, which I broadly support. The motion addresses the relevant issue of vacant properties. I will make one comment on the motion that I mean in a constructive sense. The motion proposes a long list of incentives and measures but it omits other measures that we know from international experience are effective in dealing with vacancy, such...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...and the State could be availing of sufficient capital funding to acquire these types of sites to deliver affordable housing. The Oscar Traynor Road site is related to this. A plan has been agreed by councillors on Dublin City Council to deliver affordable and social homes there. They are disappointed with the delays in the Department and by the Minister with regard to their wishes to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of up to two years. In practice, however, one will see local authorities probably granting two years. I had a number of concerns about why it was two years. Obviously, the shutdown periods in construction have been much less than that. Indeed, we have to factor in time for getting the workforce back, the recovery and so forth. Deputy Calleary made some good points on why, in some...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...in different publications, said this will increase demand. Where is the evidence that it will increase supply? Apart from the comments of the Minister and of those from the developer and property industry who are lobbying for the scheme, no one said it will increase supply. Where is the evidence for that? To be fair, if the Minister said the scheme would increase supply, would he...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...it is a different Bill, in which case why have we been denied pre-legislative scrutiny? The Minister cannot have it both ways. I welcome the Minister's statement that lands owned by Dublin City Council will be public lands, and if acquired by the LDA or if there is LDA involvement, 100% affordable and social homes will be the outcome. That is a very welcome commitment. However, why is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Defects: Discussion with Construction Defects Alliance (1 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Construction Defects Alliance and the other speakers for coming in. I also want to thank the Construction Defects Alliance for all the work they have done. I know this is very stressful and challenging for everybody involved. One of the lessons from this matter is that we need much stronger regulation, enforcement and licensing in the industry and that there must be...