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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Owens. My next question is for the Housing Agency in respect of an issue raised by Engineers Ireland. Issues have arisen with regard to recommendations for mediation where the option of an engineer employed by a homeowner differs from the option determined by the Housing Agency. It suggests that given the research and the fact the review of IS 465 is not completed, the higher...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that many residents are unable to install electric vehicle charging points due to their management companies; if management companies are legally allowed to deny the installation of all EV charging points; if this is contrary to the Climate Action Plan 2023; if there are plans to change the legislation to compel...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look into a case (details supplied) where a student who has a dual diagnosis of Down’s Syndrome and autism has no school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out preparatory work to ensure public moneys delivered to owners’ management companies under the Government’s various defects remediation schemes will be fully tracked and accounted for if the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 is not delivered on time; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Protected Disclosures (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what action he intends to take on foot of reports of alleged wrongdoing by local council CEOs and elected councillors from the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government is he aware of the ongoing issues faced by an affordable housing provider (details supplied); if he will take action to ensure a solution is reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21841/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, in relation to the pension auto-enrolment scheme, how maternity leave and people with caring responsibilities where they may be in part-time employment due to these responsibilities will be treated under the scheme; if there is provision to account for these people (the majority of whom are women) who...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide data on a series of issues (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21768/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We agree with the Tánaiste. We need action because the situation is so appalling. One of the images I saw yesterday was of a small child whose parents have been lost looking after a toddler and a baby. These are appalling situations. People are being massacred in Gaza. Children with hopes and dreams for the future are being left buried under rubble. We urgently need action on this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...how many siblings they had, what their favourite hobby was, what they wanted to be when they grew up, how scared they were for the past seven months, how many horrors they endured, how many friends and family members they watched die, how many times they and their families had been displaced before they ended up in Rafah desperately seeking safety before a missile strike on the building...

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...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of the well-being of children, I wish to ask the Taoiseach about Gaelcholáiste Reachrann in Donaghmede. It has highly committed staff who do an excellent job. It was founded in 2001, and 23 years later the students are still being taught in prefabs. This is in stark contrast to many other schools that have opened since and for which permanent school buildings have been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are in the middle of a housing crisis. We have record rents, record house prices, record numbers of adults living in their childhood bedrooms and record levels of homelessness. Given this, why is the Government incentivising landlords to keep homes empty? A prominent financial adviser has announced that he tells some of his landlord clients to leave rental accommodation vacant for two...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has any plans to alter the structure of the SEAI retrofitting grant scheme to award the grants up front in order to provide security to homeowners around the process and incentivise uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details on a squash club at the back of a school (details supplied); is this in the ownership of her Department; if there are any plans for its use, as it has been vacant for some time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a scheme to acknowledge teaching years accrued abroad for the purposes of determining salary, in order to entice teachers who have emigrated to return; if this could be considered as a measure to increase trained teachers in Ireland and address the teacher shortage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she intends to take to address the shortage of 13 teachers due to recruitment difficulties at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new buy-and-renew homes delivered in each of the years 2016 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people working in his Department's vacant homes unit. [20293/24]