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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: €729m was recouped to local authorities to fund the cost of a 9 month rates waiver in 2020. A further €424m was recouped in respect of the 2021 rates waiver. These were unprecedented measures, which offered support to businesses and financial certainty to local authorities. The Government, in Budget 2022, announced a more targeted commercial rates waiver than had...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Housing for All sets out a number of objectives with the aim of improving the functioning of the planning system including the comprehensive review and consolidation of planning legislation. The review forms one of the actions in Housing for All and is set in the context of the broad policy outlined therein. The review is being overseen by the Attorney General and he has appointed a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Estimate for 2022 in planning and local government. I also have responsibility for Traveller accommodation and support and housing for people with disabilities and older people. As the Minister noted, significant capital and current funding has been provided to the Department in 2022 and we are all firmly focused on ensuring the maximum output from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Higgins very much. On the vacancy issue, we have done a very significant amount of work through our Town Centre First policy which is a very exciting new enabling policy to unlock the potential in our towns and villages right across the country and to draw these funding investment structures together to enable a ground-up approach from community groups that can work with a town...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I think 75 was the figure referred to in the reply. We must do this in a number of ways. I have been liaising strongly with the local authorities as I go around the country visiting sites. There is a very significant capital programme in Cork that I expect and hope to see commence this year. I have been down there on the ground trying to progress the programme. I have carried it forward...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: We have written to the Deputy in connection with the issue in terms of the timelines. We are working very hard to progress it. I know it has to go through the environmental thresholds, but we expect to have it shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (9 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Provisions relating to placename changes in Part 18 of the amended Local Government Act 2001 were commenced in early 2019. Previous provisions under local government legislation were repealed. In addition, provisions in the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, amending Part 18 of the 2001 Act, were commenced. The newly commenced provisions under the amended Part 18 of the 2001...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy again for articulating the concern of local residents in Gougane Barra. I am clear, however, about my role under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which means that I am unable to comment on specific cases. This is clearly enshrined in the legislation. I referred to the guidelines and energy targets earlier to try to set the context regarding where the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Aindrias Moynihan for raising this matter, which is very important to his community. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage's role in relation to the planning system is primarily to provide a policy and legislative framework under which the planning authorities, An Bord Pleanála and the Office of the Planning Regulator perform their statutory planning...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Senator Keogan for her very-well presented argument in favour of this allowance. The household benefits package comprises the electricity or gas allowance and free television licence. The Department of Social Protection will spend approximately €273 million this year on the household benefit package for more than 484,000 customers. All proposals, including any proposal to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Senator Keogan for her remarks and the case presented. I will revert to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, with the case the Senator has made in the context of the next Estimates process. I know the Government is adjudicating on an estimate for increased package to counteract inflation, which has to be targeted at those who need it most. The Minister has said the allowances that have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I will bring these comments to the attention of the Minister, Deputy Foley. The Senator has made a strong case for the school. St. Paul's Community College is a multidenominational, co-educational post-primary school under the patronage of Waterford and Wexford ETB. The enrolment for this school for the 2020-21 academic year was 572 and pending validation of all enrolment returns, it is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I again thank Senator Cummins for the strong and robust case he has put forward for St. Paul's Community College. I will bring the case in regard to the community college in the context of the overall long-term plan to the attention of the Minister for Education. I agree that it is important staff of the Department of Education liaise with the patron and the community to find the best...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding applications for the Climate Action Fund for large-scale projects of between €1 million and €1.5 million; when applications will be open for businesses in 2022; if the criteria for the scheme have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5928/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if works can be carried out on a river (details supplied). [6266/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 291 and 292 together. Audit and oversight of local government in Ireland is the responsibility of two organisations; the Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) and the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC).The LGAS carries out an independent, external audit of each local authority, each year. It currently has a staff of 35, or 32.6 full time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Under Section 160 of the Local Government Act 2001, the appropriate Minister may declare qualifications of such classes and descriptions as he or she thinks fit for a specified employment under a local authority, or for such of the employments as belong to a specified class, description or grade. The declared qualifications for the post of Executive Engineer specify that a candidate must...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: An Organisational Review of An Bord Pleanála was undertaken by an independent expert panel and published in March 2016. An Implementation Group, comprising representation from my Department and An Bord Pleanála (the Board), was established to oversee the implementation of the Review recommendations. The Review contains 101 recommendations relating to legislative provisions,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. Section 126 of the Act provides that it shall be the duty and objective of the Board to decide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: The recording of court cases is one in which I have no statutory function and is a matter for the Courts Service which is statutorily independent. Judicial reviews against the State, in which my Department may be included as a party, are co-ordinated by the Chief State Solicitors Office under the guidance of the Attorney General's Office. Under section 30 of the Act, I am specifically...