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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why not? When there is good use of zoning in other countries, as referenced in the programme for Government, to make housing more affordable, why are we not considering those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So it might be addressed in Housing for All.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That would be the place to address it. The strategy says that increasing housing supply remains the principal solution to resolving homelessness. What is the evidence base for that statement? Housing supply is increasing and homelessness is increasing so what is the evidence base for this statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: However, as housing supply increases, homelessness is increasing. The evidence base from around Europe is that if you improve security for renters and households, you can decrease homelessness because it is the more vulnerable households that become homeless when there is a lack of security. That is what the evidence base says. What is the evidence base for this because we can clearly see...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to ask about the Housing Commission report. As my colleague said earlier, Dr. Aoibhinn Walsh, a leading paediatrician, is seeing children growing up in emergency accommodation presenting with rickets, skin conditions, including scabies, anaemia, faltering growth and extreme tooth decay. This is incredibly serious. The landmark report from the Housing Commission provides a number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Which the Government is sitting on.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I commend Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh, the Women of Honour and the women in the FAI for speaking out, which they should not have felt the need to do. I commend, in particular, Ms Natasha O'Brien for challenging homophobic abuse. I and many others like me enjoy a degree of freedom in our public spaces because people like Ms O'Brien defend us. It is a diminishing degree of freedom in our...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Projects (10 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 246. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that the UBU-Your Place Your Space funding deficit is addressed in order that youth work projects can maintain and grow their level of service provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30020/24]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also welcome the Bill, which the Social Democrats will support. The issue of the Bill is very much tied into what has been happening around students' accommodation needs. This example has been highlighted very well by Deputy Mairéad Farrell but it is one of many examples of exploitation of students when it comes to housing. Perhaps it is not intentional, explicit or anything like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [29564/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also extend my sympathies to the families and friends of those who died at the Grand Canal. I will ask about a couple of things. How much money has been spent on erecting fencing at the canals? How much longer will the fencing be left in place? Would the money not be better spent on fixing services and improving infrastructure? Is anything being done to keep homeless people who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Might the fencing remain in place indefinitely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will read a few excerpts from an email I got recently from someone who lives at the Castleknock lock. It states: I have complained for many years in writing to Waterways Ireland about the severe lack of maintenance. The twelfth lock, Castleknock, is the second largest live-aboard community after Sallins, with over 35 people living here of which seven are children under the age of five....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just an incredible situation for 35 families, including seven children, not to have access to water simply because Waterways Ireland is refusing to give written permission, while Uisce Éireann is willing to fix that at no cost to Waterways Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is a potential infringement of people's human rights to access safe water. As it is very serious, I would be grateful were Mr. Rowe to come back to the committee on it and on what steps his organisation will take to address that. There is no excuse for that at all. We got a huge amount of correspondence on this issue but one thing that was raised is we were told that at present,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is no moratorium on getting boats in then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: People to make contact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have no issue with it being done correctly but it is good there is clarification there. Under the current by-laws, all boats are treated the same whether they are lived on or not. Are there examples in other European countries where there is a distinction made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Going back to the situation in Castleknock, given there is such a big live-aboard community there, does Mr. Rowe not think his organisation should know what the situation is with respect to access to water for the community there? I do not expect him to know all the detail of everything around the country but this is the second-biggest community and it is about their access to water. It is...