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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]

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...

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]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families who have been in homeless emergency accommodation for over six months; the number who have been in homeless emergency accommodation for over one year; broken down by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20285/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer of the affordable homes delivered with the affordable housing fund in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20292/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all stalled capital advance loan facility-funded social housing projects, indicating the local authority in which they are located and the number of homes involved in each location; the measures he intends to take to get these projects up and running; if he will ensure that other projects are not...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in the vacant sites levy each year from 2019 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20295/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether a senior counsel was appointed to pursue accountability from suppliers of defective concrete blocks; if he will provide an update on the work of this appointed SC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20296/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of minimum standards for private-rented accommodation inspections carried out by environmental health officers between 2020 and 2024; the number of improvement letters issued as a result; the number of improvement notices and the number of enforcement proceedings initiated, broken down by local authority and year;...