Results 1-20 of 250 for long speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (1 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...2023 alone. That number includes some local community groups. Last year, the Howth access group wrote to Fingal County Council and the owners of the estate to request a discussion on recognising long-established routes as official rights of way. The letter was co-signed by multiple active local community organisations. The request was not agreed to by the landowners. It is positive...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...political establishment turn their backs on you and frustrate you at every turn. They were ignored, they were not believed and they felt treated like second-class citizens. Let us not pretend that this shameful mistreatment all belongs in the distant past, because it does not. Even when the decision was taken to hold the inquests, the families and their legal representatives had to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Court judges to speedily look at judicial reviews. Overall, as a society, the gain we would get for this would be well worth it rather than bringing forward changes that will potentially lead to long delays and satellite litigation. For the life of me, I cannot understand this. I understand the Attorney General gives legal advice. That is the function of the Attorney General to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...No. 1087, I also met representatives of staff and their union Fórsa about this Bill and they articulated their views on it. One of the key concerns they had was about the proposed name change. Long-standing staff especially placed particular value on the name. They felt the name change did not recognise the huge value of all the work, which we would all recognise, the staff put in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: How long might it take and when might it be concluded?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...land it would need to give effect to its housing strategy and give timelines and targets for acquiring the land. We agreed on the first half. If we could agree on the second half, we could go a long way to solving this housing crisis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Part V traditionally was done as a purchase. A local authority would purchase. It might go to an approved housing body, but long-term leasing has increasingly been used instead of a purchase. That is still provided for, is it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., if not front-loaded. Some should be front-loaded with the first significant amount of housing. That is the way communities are built. Some larger developments are built out over such a long period, such that there are children who are not even born when the first phase is being built, that it results in the delivery of amenities being late and their provision sometimes getting timed...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...that an extension of permission for a further ten years can be granted as well, which allows for a full 20 years overall. Whatever type of planning application we are talking about, 20 years is a long period of time. Incidentally, for a project like MetroLink, I refer to a project like that having perhaps more than ten years, including, potentially, another extension. I totally...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, grand. To follow on from the point made by Deputy Bacik, has any analysis been done in terms of durations of permissions in respect of a large-scale housing development, for example, of how long it normally takes to build out after getting planning permission? If we are talking about 500 units or 1,000 units, how much time is required in this regard, if we consider the time needed to...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of their trying to deliver the project. Regarding time delays relating to the JR, I can understand wanting to have the clock stopped on planning permissions. My only concerns around this are long-duration planning permissions and the impact there could be of stopping the clock and then adding in the time. Let us say there is a project where there has been an environmental assessment,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...reconsider classifying Covid-19 as an occupational illness, as has been recommended in many EU countries; what supports are in place for people who were in receipt of special leave with pay due to long-Covid; what will replace this payment for front-line workers who are still unable to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: They could get six months if the planning authority saw fit, but they must get it. They must get the extension but it is up to the planning authority to decide how long.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...make a decision ... within 6 months" of the request. However, there is no timeline thereafter. If the local authority decides to go with the taking in charge request, there is no timeline for how long it will take to complete - it could take years or decades - and there is no obligation on local authorities to decide to take those areas in charge. They can simply refuse to take them in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...stairwells, communal areas, lifts or anything like that, to warrant a management charge on an ongoing basis but they are paying management charges for the maintenance of public areas that should long ago have been handed over to the local authority. There is no clarity in the planning permission as to whether those areas ever will be handed over to the local authority. There are no...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister have stats on how long it takes planning authorities to get the documents online?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of the capacity of each of the following to accommodate development for residential use or a mixture of residential and other uses during the period to which the development plan relates and targets as to the amount of housing to be provided within each of the following during that period: (I) any long-term strategic development sites; (II) any compact development sites identified as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a situation in a school (details supplied) whereby there should be seven SET teachers, but they currently only have one due to problems with long-term and short-term cover recruitment; what actions are being taken to address these recruitment issues which are widespread; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11719/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units provided through long-term leasing in 2023; if he will provide a list of these developments and the number of units provided in each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12665/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the locations where social housing has been provided for through long term leasing since 2017, broken down by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12697/24]