Results 2,721-2,740 of 26,228 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister and I will look at the matter in tandem with the officials. We will take it under advisement. We will come back to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We welcome the engagement. The committee has raised a very important point. We will go back and discuss it and revert to the committee on the outstanding issue. We very much take it on board. That is why we welcome these engagements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does that relate to radar?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: If the Chair could hold on a moment. I want to be careful. We would like the radar regulation to be referred by the committee now to the Houses of the Oireachtas but on the second regulation we have agreed to take under advisement the points raised by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan into consideration and to revert back to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back with a revised proposal to the committee on the gas regulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We want to decouple the two today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: There are a number of other exemptions, so we will obviously revert to the committee. The radar regulation has been referred but we will come back with a revised proposal on the second one.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is the Deputy's 30 seconds.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I just received the proposal and the review that was carried out by the officials in the Department. I am considering it very carefully, along with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. We intend to make a decision on that pretty quickly. As the Deputy will appreciate, it is something we are giving huge priority to. The housing adaptation grants for 2023 have just been announced. It is something...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are you talking about yourself?

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----but I would hate for it to be put out that counsellors in respect of zoning decisions and politicians here in the Dáil and Seanad are not doing their jobs in the proper way. We are bringing in the residential zoned land tax, the legislation for which is in, and the land sharing tax. We are conscious of the impact the residential zoned land tax is having on active farmers. We want...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Deputy talking about the help-to-buy scheme?

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is the case.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is something at which we will look.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the members of the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. It is very well-intentioned, but we will be opposing it because it fails to recognise the progress being undertaken to encourage growth and development in rural Ireland in a way consistent with our national planning policies and the substantial public investment underpinning them. I assure Deputies that the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to the reply to Questions No. 341 and 342 of 9 May 2023 which sets out the position in this matter.

Planning and Development Regulations 2023: Referral to Joint Committee (9 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: (i) Planning and Development (Section 181) Regulations 2023, (ii) Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2023, (iii) Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. X) Regulations 2023, and (iv) Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development)...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Canney. This is a matter of which we are very conscious. We want active farmers to be able to continue to farm. As the Deputy is probably aware, if under residential zoned land tax arrangements a farmer wanted residentially zoned land to be dezoned, it would be considered not included in respect of the tax. Farmers up and down the country appealed to An Bord Pleanála...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: In fairness, the Deputy has raised the homelessness report for Galway. It is a matter we want to see expedited.