Results 1-20 of 24 for data protection speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...zones, rents on existing tenancies are not allowed by law to go up by more than 2% per year. Despite this, there is no evidence the Government is doing anything to enforce the laws that are supposed to protect renters. Rents are at their highest ever level and have almost doubled in the past decade. There are record numbers of people homeless, record house prices and record numbers of...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...stopping the clock and then adding in the time. Let us say there is a project where there has been an environmental assessment, habitats and species have been looked at, and there has been survey data. All that work is important. If this is a larger project with longer duration permission and the stopping of the clock of the JR is added to that, which could be a few more years, it could...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the rationale. I have put forward plenty of data on why it is absolutely necessary. I will certainly press this amendment. There has been no case put forward for the differentiation in approach under the Bill regarding the regulation of short-term lettings outside rent pressure zones. It is deeply unfair to communities affected by the lack of regulation that this section of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...for sustainable development and regeneration. It is not dissimilar to some of the amendments discussed previously. It would ensure that strategies on sustainable development and regeneration in Gaeltacht areas would protect the linguistic and cultural heritage of those areas. That makes sense. Amendment No. 351 relates to an obligation to prepare a strategy related to economic...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...objective No. 12, on Gaeltacht areas, regarding development in the Gaeltacht, that "Gaeltacht areas form a unique part of our Irish cultural and linguistic heritage and development plans have a role to play in their protection ... and development", that policies should be considered for inclusion and that the plan should ensure that "development proposals in Gaeltacht areas have a positive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., renters would not be evicted and would be able to stay in their homes as long as they are paying their rent and comply with all the other normal conditions of renting. It does not give a general protection against eviction. It is if they are compliant with the terms of their tenancy, paying their rent - all those normal conditions - and are not involved in anti-social behaviour, etc....

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...used to this response from Government and become desensitised to it. It is not a response. What has happened here is not acceptable. We have record levels of homelessness and rent and very clear data showing that rent regulation has been utterly flouted across this country. What happens? The Minister responds to this motion, which I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling, with a few...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the huge challenges they face in respect of getting employment. This is extremely worrying. Bizarrely, they were invisible in the census that was carried out. The census decided not to collect data, which is way out of step with other countries. If we do not collect and measure data how can we address different policy positions? There is a lot that needs to be done. The Criminal...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...spent building homes. We also need to take immediate measures to tackle vacancy in order to get existing homes back into use. The Government is not taking this seriously. There are at least 100,000 vacant homes around the country. That figure does not include holiday homes. GeoDirectory, combining data compiled by An Post delivery staff and Ordnance Survey Ireland, states that there...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...tenant in situscheme, making its application much more consistent and ensuring that most local authorities use it properly would address some of the concerns of landlords in that regard while also protecting renters. There is no shortage of solutions that need to be implemented now although we are not hearing any from the Government. I will outline a few small solutions that would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...confidence in the process, transparency, buy-in and the information that can be picked up by that process. For these designations to work, public participation is important. Any designations or protections and their enforcement rely on input from the public. I have concerns regarding the heads about the lack of timelines, too much discretion, lack of detail, lack of obligations when...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the thresholds being set, I am concerned by the comments given by the Minister for State that one of the reasons is the administrative burden a lower threshold in licensing would place on the Environmental Protection Agency. Others have rightly made the point that we should have best practice and should do the same as in the North and countries around us with similar water conditions. We...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., younger people, renters, students, people with disabilities, members of the Travelling community, people who are homeless, people who are struggling to buy their own home and people seeking international protection. If all of us unite, there is strength in that. Ní neart go cur le chéile. There is no strength without unity. There are five things the Government has been...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...to completely unaffordable levels in these parts of the country but because the rules are written in such a way that no matter what happens to rents in these areas, they will never qualify for any protection under the rent pressure zone legislation. Some 62 out of 77 local authority areas do not qualify as rent pressure zones because insufficient data has been collected. There will...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...are able to find somewhere to live, which is a real issue at present. There is a housing rental crisis throughout the country, not only in RPZs. That is why I am wondering why areas outside of RPZs are not getting protection here. Does the Minister of State acknowledge there is a real issue with the way RPZ rules are written because 77 local electoral areas are not currently classified...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of State's opening comments in which he recognised this and the official comments prepared by the Department. They did not recognise it and did not name it. Included in those comments were the protections in place for tenants. It is correct there are no protections in place for tenants. There was no recognition in the official comments of how we need to go much further to create a...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...and scrambling than reacting properly. This payment is cited as being one of a suite of measures to mitigate the effects of the recent significant rises in electricity prices, which includes support through the social protection system. It is a mystery as to what this suite of measures actually comprises when existing supports have not been increased to the extent required in this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., including in the skies above the area of the proposed DMAP, as well as in the sea and on the seafloor, and when the surveys were conducted and over what period, (l) details on what major ecological data deficiencies and gaps have been identified and how these are proposed to be filled and by when and by who and how including in respect of the associated costs, (m) details of...