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Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Sherlock may be deputising but he certainly explained those issues very well and quite comprehensively. I will turn in a moment to amendment No. 28 about landscape but first I will speak about amendment No.14. It was said in the Chamber just a few minutes ago that the Government is not engaging with amendments and is not listening. That is not the case. I have often found it to be...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to address amendments Nos. 110 onwards. I thank the Minister of State for his contribution and for considering the issues I have raised. I thank him for taking these issues seriously, for the written response he gave to the committee on the proposals and for the effort to introduce amendments to address some of the issues I have raised in respect of section 41 and the need for an...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank People Before Profit for its work on tabling this motion. It is very important that this is highlighted. As was just said, there is no excuse for delays or stalling on this issue. It is an urgent area. It is cynical for this to be passed through Second Stage but for it not to be progressed as urgently as it needs to be thereafter. The position of the Social Democrats is that we...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all Deputies who have contributed to this important discussion. I want to respond to something the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, said when he was articulating Government policy. He said the Government's position is that a reinstatement of the winter eviction ban would not work because it would deter investment in the rental sector and supply. We are not looking for...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the cost of buying a home has increased by more than 25 per cent since this Government came into office; — it now costs almost €330,000 on average to buy a home, an increase of more than €66,000 since 2020 and €90,000 since 2017; — the median income for first-time buyers of new homes is now...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome this Bill and that we finally have it at this Stage. I know a lot of work has gone into it and there are improvements from the general scheme. I want to acknowledge that and say that it is moving in the right direction. With that said, it needs to go a lot further. Fundamentally, one of the reasons the Social Democrats and I are most interested in directly elected mayors is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support the very well-made points of my colleagues on the committee. I have no issue with emergency measures. In general, I am very supportive of what is being done to provide emergency accommodation for people fleeing war and seeking international protection. I share the concerns about the potential impact of these measures. We are now looking at fairly poor accommodation being...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for that detailed answer. It is great that the Heritage Council has two archaeologists and one historian, but that illustrates the very point I was trying to make. This can be contrasted with the range of expertise there would be on a national monuments advisory council with a panel of ten or 15 experts with knowledge of different eras. Crucially, the expert...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 153 In page 67, to delete lines 36 to 41 and substitute the following: “Relevant works which may affect environment in another Member State or Northern Ireland 38.(1) Where the Minister considers that the proposed relevant works that is the subject of an EIAR under this Chapter would be likely to have significant effects on the environment in another Member...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I express my full solidarity and support for the workers who are staging sit-ins in Coolock and Talbot Street, and indeed all the Iceland workers. The issue here is that low-paid workers are the backbone of companies like Iceland and they simply cannot afford not to have the wages owed to them paid in a timely manner. One worker is owed almost...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 29 is to include in the list of bodies and definitions the national monuments advisory council. It is absolutely critical, and I made this point on Second Stage, that we have such a council as part of the safeguards and checks and balances on this legislation, especially when, never mind the language in the Bill, we are talking about provisions that will provide for the...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: From listening to the Minister, Deputy Harris, earlier, we would be forgiven for thinking that all is going well with apprenticeships in Ireland, or at least that everything is going in the right direction. Yet, if you look at the figures for the intake of apprenticeships in construction, the situation is quite grave. In 2006, there were 475 people who entered apprenticeships in brick and...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish everyone going to attend Dublin Pride this Saturday a happy Pride. When I attended my first Pride, about 28 or 29 years ago now, there was no marriage equality, no discussion of marriage equality in the country and even no discussion of things like civil partnership. These things were not talked about. As others have noted, this was just a year or two after homosexuality had been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for attending. They have made some strong and clear contributions, which is useful. They are almost making the case for not taking this type of approach at all to land value sharing, and saying it is an indirect approach, full of risks in how it could impact on the market. They are convincing me that a much more direct approach is needed, whereby we should go to the...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before the debate was adjourned, I was making the point that according to the 2001 survey published by the Heritage Council, 34% of the State's archaeological monuments had been destroyed since 1840. The survey found the destruction was continuing at an alarming rate. Once a monument is destroyed, it is gone forever; it can never be brought back. We have seen such destruction in Wood Quay...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats will certainly support this Bill proceeding to Committee Stage. The idea of Committee Stage is for Bills like this to be teased out and scrutinised. It is disappointing that while the Government criticises the Opposition for not tabling proposals, when the Opposition brings forward proposals and Bills such as this, the Government does not even want them to be discussed...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Ireland's housing crisis continues to have a devastating impact on people's lives and life choices; — bringing vacant homes back into use is one of the quickest and most sustainable ways to increase the supply of housing; — high levels of vacancy in homes around Ireland have been identified by the GeoDirectory, the...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...and will not unlock the potential of the more than 100,000 vacant homes we have across the country. Even with the open goal of vacant homes, the lack of seriousness in the whole-of-government approach to that signifies we are not seeing the kind of response we should see. About a year ago, the Minister was unequivocal that 2022 would be the year of delivery. He was clear it would be the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...is simply a sticking plaster on the open wound of the housing disaster. Instead of treating that wound, the Government is abruptly ripping that plaster off, leaving thousands of people exposed to eviction and the threat of becoming homeless. I welcome the Bill and the Social Democrats will be supporting it. We would like to see a later date and, indeed, we believe lifting the ban on...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. The Social Democrats will be supporting it. At this stage, I want to appeal to Government backbenchers. It is not too late for them to change their mind on this, do the right thing and vote in favour of this motion. In particular, the Green Deputies should show some backbone on this matter. I know there are no Green Deputies in the...