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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [21763/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down a land price registry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down our proposals on a land price registry.

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleague Deputy Shortall for her work in bringing forward this motion. It is very disappointing that the Minister for Health is not here and that the second junior Minister who has just come to join this debate is not connected to the Department in any way. The response the Minister of State has just read out does not address many of the fundamental issues we have listed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the recommendation made in the Parliamentary Budget Office’s Publication 24 of 2024 are included in future revised estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23085/24]

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and giving us the opportunity to discuss these important issues around housing. There is one question I have asked myself and that I wish to pose here. When the Government states that it thinks its Housing for All plan is working, does it really believe that? Is it that disconnected from what is happening in people's lives or is it just...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to talk about the human impact of the failures in housing. A family were in touch with me recently who are going to be evicted on 2 June. They will be evicted into homelessness. They have been looking for a property that would accept their HAP payment and simply cannot get that. A second family were in touch with me in similar circumstances. They have been evicted into...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [21762/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [20566/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [21761/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that very much. I thank everyone who has come in. I wish to ask the Department about the use of highly combustible materials. Is it the case that developers can still use highly combustible materials in residential buildings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. O’Dowd is saying that for lower buildings, highly combustible materials can be used, and for higher buildings, a developer can only use highly combustible materials if it has been tested as part of a system that prevents the spread of fire. Is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: One of the difficulties in Grenfell, for example, was systems failure. It was not just highly combustible cladding; it was systems failure. There were many issues with it. One of the issues that came up in Grenfell was the smoke toxicity. As I think most people would know, it is generally smoke that kills people, not usually fire. Smoke toxicity levels in the building materials is one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Returning to my question, are smoke toxicity levels in building materials regulated or not? With Grenfell, unfortunately, as with many disasters, multiple things went wrong. The "stay put" policy was obviously one of the issues, but there were multiple failures. Unfortunately, when there is loss of human life, it is often when several things have failed. If the answer is that it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate those commitments but given that smoke toxicity levels in building materials are regulated throughout Europe – we are an outlier on this – given there is the 2004 report from the UK’s Building Research Establishment that noted this problem, and given that 72 people lost their lives in Grenfell Tower where one of the many issues was smoke toxicity levels,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The concern relates to when these things fail. If all the early detection systems, compartmentalisation and everything else works, there will not be an issue. The problem is that tragic loss of life occurs when different systems fail. When something is missing, for example, the compartmentalisation, it becomes a matter of life and death.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Every other European country has regulated smoke toxicity levels in the building materials in residential construction since at least 2004. Saying that we cannot do it because of European regulations when regulation is in place in every other European Union country seems to be a bizarre answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I understand harmonisation, but every other country is regulating this and has done for decades.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if traditional bed and breakfasts operating since the 1980s will be affected by the registration of short-term tourist letting Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22385/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units delivered under the buy and renew scheme in each year since 2016; the total cost in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22339/24]