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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) and their parents’ passports returned without further delay. [4481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the €1,000 bonus to drivers who assist doctors on call through the Midoc service (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [5061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the €1,000 Covid-19 bonus payment to patient-facing nurses in the disability sector. [4245/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for the development of the specialist palliative care inpatient unit in Tullamore, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the €1,000 bonus to carers who work in the homes of persons with disabilities and who worked 12-hour shifts and provided care for persons throughout the pandemic, placing their own health at risk to provide that service. [4518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to the escalation and high price of fertiliser which is having a major impact on farming families. [5069/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: 187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider extending the €1,000 bonus to prison officers who continued to work all through the pandemic and who would be responsible for bringing prisoners into hospitals and remaining with them for their stay in hospital (details supplied). [4008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (27 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: The Derelict Sites Act 1990 imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. The Act also imposes a duty on local authorities to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (27 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, planning authorities were empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of relevant properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers in 2018, which relevant owners were liable to pay in January 2019. The rate of the levy increased to 7% for sites listed on local...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (26 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage pursuant to Standing Orders 95 and 181.

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Members who contributed on the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022. Once this legislation is enacted, all builders will be required to register with CIRI. Section 33 provides that an unregistered builder may not provide building works for anyone, be it for a State contract, a developer, or for an individual. The register is of competence. It is an essential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (26 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I am still considering the position in relation to timing of the filling of the post of the Chief Executive of Galway County Council on a permanent basis. I hope to bring clarity on the intended approach over the coming weeks. There is a requirement for all Chief Executive posts for Local Authorities to be advertised openly on the www.publicjobs.ie website operated by the Public Appointments...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government (26 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department has provided funding to the Local Government Management Agency since its establishment in 2012 as per the tabular statement below. Year Amount of Funding (€) 2012 939,022 2013 2,313,463 2014 3,078,085 2015 4,816,986 2016 3,955,465 ...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I concur with the Deputy. It is important that, as a society, we acknowledge and understand the demand for rural housing. That is critical to providing a policy to allow for it in a sustainable way. It is important that we have good planning practices and that we call out the misinformation that is currently circulating on WhatsApp groups and in society that one-off rural housing is going...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: The guidelines for planning authorities and sustainable rural housing 2005 were issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and require planning authorities to frame the planning policies in their development plans in a balanced and measured way. Since 2018 the national planning framework. NPF, is the national policy document providing the overall strategy for the future...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Local Government Reform (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies. I have seen a first draft of the legislation. We are trying to build in the report on pre-legislative scrutiny from the Oireachtas joint committee and the bilateral engagement I have had with other Departments. This is significant. I encourage Deputies to encourage Ministers in various Departments to give a significant amount of power to the mayor. A big challenge...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Local Government Reform (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71 and 120 together. At its meeting of 20 April 2021, the Government approved the general scheme of a Bill providing for a directly elected mayor for Limerick. The Government also approved the publication of the general scheme, as well as its referral both to the Oireachtas for pre-legislative scrutiny and to the Office of the Attorney General for...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Local Government Reform (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I concur with the sentiments of the former Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, that it is the most progressive and the biggest reform of local government since the foundation of the State. In the first instance, looking at the timeline, on 24 May 2019 the plebiscite was held. Subsequently, we established the implementation advisory group in January 2021. Following that, there was a general...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Vacant Properties (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Dillon for his question. I know he is a great advocate in this area as I have been to Mayo and have seen at first hand the work Mayo County Council has carried out and the lobbying Deputy Dillon has been doing. I am happy to confirm that a circular has been issued in the past 24 hours to increase by 20% the funding that has been attached to the vacant homes office. We...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Vacant Properties (25 Jan 2022)

Peter Burke: Mayo has done huge work in highlighting vacanthomes.ieto identify vacancy and areas in which properties can be brought back into use. It is very important that local authorities have full-time vacant homes officers in place to take advantage of these key funding streams now being put forward by the Government with record levels of funding to try to bring these properties back into use. In...