Results 1-20 of 55 for going forward speaker:Steven Matthews

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

Steven Matthews: For clarity, under the Bill is there is an opportunity for somebody prior to going forward with the judicial review to seek clarification on their eligibility for costs?

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

Steven Matthews: The Deputy might as well list all four now and we can go backwards and forwards if clarification is needed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. After that rationale put forward by the members, is the Minister of State going to accept the proposed amendment? If he wishes to respond now, I can then move on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...open ended in the way it is written at the minute. I would have concerns about that. When strategies were introduced into development plans, to me, it was a progressive step with regard to forward planning because we introduced evidence-based planning on zoning. We carried out infrastructure assessments on settlements. We identified settlements by their characteristics and potential to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ..., from the lowest level, from local area plans to county plans and regional spatial strategies, are all adopted by elected members and they set out a blueprint on planning and on how an area is going to develop. However, this one, which is our national document under which all of those are meant to sit within a hierarchy and align with, is not required to be passed by the Oireachtas. We...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...highest level document, the national planning framework, and weave it in there. I was faced with a dilemma. If you look at a transport delivery plan, it is a lot more tangible if you say you are going to build a rail line from A to B. However, substantial actions on nature and diversity can take quite a time to deliver. Unless you set targets for X km of rivers and lakes and so on, it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will go through the Bill section by section and Part by Part. I am sure the Minister will indicate, when we reach the appropriate points, what will be brought forward on Report Stage and we will get those briefing notes out to everybody, as is customary in this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: Mr. Whelan made the point about the infrastructure deficit. Deputy Buckley has got clarification on his point. Mr. Finnegan asked a question on the process going forward. The public consultation will complete on 26 February. I presume Waterways Ireland will then consider all the submissions and engagement it has had with local authorities and other members and then will produce a set of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the LDA representatives for their time. It has been helpful to us. So that we are clear on them, I wish to go over a couple of the requests that have been made. There was a request from Deputy Ó Broin for confirmation that there had been no rent increases. I believe the LDA committed to reverting to us on this matter. A commitment was given to revert to Senator Cummins...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: Yes. I am conscious the research areas the Electoral Commission is going to work on may be important to a certain cohort of people but not to others. Some people may just not be concerned that they are now in a constituency with three, five or six seats. However, if you are a candidate in one of those areas, this is going to be of great interest. There is also the issue of posters. Some...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...in the past three years. It is not only being discussed in the Oireachtas but is also being discussed in council chambers. I have also heard it from the travelling public. Estimates are often a good time to examine the expanse of work that goes on in the Minister's Department and in the National Transport Authority, NTA, and acknowledge, for example, the electric bus fleet that is being...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...of film production - the unscripted sector, on which Ireland is leading and will lead in a European and global setting. I welcome the Minister's comments in his speech on budget day that we are going to work out a support mechanism for the unscripted sector as well. I will explain what that brings to the unscripted sector. I spoke about the film production being quite mobile, being on...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...to carbon neutrality, to reverse the loss of nature and biodiversity, and to improve water quality, air quality, the natural world and the habitats upon which we rely. Never before has such a forward-thinking commitment been made by any Government for resilience and the means to seriously provide for climate action and the protection of nature. It has been broadly welcomed by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will take the next slot. It has been confirmed to us that sections 48 and 49 will be going back into the new planning Bill and that this measure is likely to form part of the planning Bill as well. We are doing separate pre-legislative scrutiny on that. Dr. O'Leary mentioned resources and said we would be sick of talking about resources. The committee has come to the conclusion in a...

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

Steven Matthews: ...country in his role as Minister of State and did so previously in his role on Kilkenny County Council where he was Cathaoirleach for a spell and served a long time as a member. Kilkenny is a good example of city that recognises and promotes the historical and cultural attributes that attract people through tourism to those towns. The people who live there also feel this because...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Steven Matthews: .... Many of the newer build schools are set up and wired for these solar panels already but many of the older schools are not. I do not know what the process would be to decide which schools go first. I would like to see this rolled out to all schools as quickly as possible. I would like to see solar panels across the entire country, on every rooftop, every farm, every commercial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...or applied for. Ms Foster said that there is no consultation with residents and the developers seem to get a much better choice of it. However, where land is zoned, a long consultation process goes on. There is an indication that something will be built upon. Mr. Mandal will say they will come in and far exceed in a planning application what the councillors for the area had deemed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: We had engagement with the Department in the early days of this as well. We had about four meetings on development consent, forward planning, enforcement and planning authorities. I think those were the four headings we did it under. The process has been going on for quite a long time. This is the first edition of what will eventually end up as the 2023 planning and development Act, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to the meeting. Today, we commence our pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft planning and development Bill 2022. From the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, we are joined by Mr. Paul Hogan, acting assistant secretary in the planning division, Ms Mary Jones, principal officer, Mr. Colin Ryan, senior planning adviser, and Mr. Eugene Waters, assistant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...to read it. I also want to acknowledge the committee members. We found the opportunity to deal with this as soon as we possibly could after the production of the general scheme. We are obviously going into the consolidated planning Bill, which is going to take up quite a lot of our time. The process at the moment is that we produce a report with recommendations. Many of those here...