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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The number of sites on the local authority vacant site registers at 1 January 2020 is provided in the table below, along with the number of sites which were liable to be subject to the Vacant Site Levy in 2021 for the year 2020. In this regard, it should be noted that the number of sites on the registers on 1 January in any given year is not an indication of the number of sites that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation on the number of special education needs organisers, SENOs, in the County Offaly area at present; the vacancies for SENOs that exist at present; the waiting lists that exist for accessing the current service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58334/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: One of the Office of the Planning Regulator’s (OPR) core statutory functions is to conduct reviews of systems and procedures used by local authorities and An Bord Pleanála in the delivery of their planning functions. In this regard the OPR is implementing a programme of reviews under section 31AS of the Planning & Development Act 2000, as amended, whereby each authority in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: My Department has no role with regard to the selection of authorities to be included in the Office of the Planning Regulator's (OPR) programme of general reviews. This is entirely a matter for the OPR, who, in scheduling subsequent phases of the reviews programme, will continue to ensure that a good geographic spread and balance of authorities with varying planning contexts are included....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Planning statistics are compiled by each planning authority on an annual basis for collation and publication on my Department’s website, at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/service/9e4ee-get-planning-statistics/ . The data collected relates to the total number of applications and decisions for all developments that require planning permission, broken down by year and planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Nov 2021)

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 the Department and An Bord Pleanála, was established to oversee the implementation of the Review recommendations. The Review contains 101 recommendations relating to legislative provisions, communications and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The information requested in relation to the number of change of use planning applications made to, and granted/refused by, planning authorities further to the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 - referred to as the Short-Term Letting Regulations - which came into effect on 1 July 2019 is outlined in the table below: Planning Authority ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (24 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Housing for All contains a specific action - (Action 20.4) - to “develop new regulatory controls requiring short-term and holiday lets to register with Fáilte Ireland with a view to ensuring that houses are used to best effect in areas of housing need”.Minister O’Brien has engaged with Minister Catherine Martin on this matter, and a number of meetings have been held...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (24 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Build-to-let was first referenced in 2015 guidance in response to emerging trends, which include on-going population growth, a move towards smaller average household size, an ageing population and a greater proportion of households in the rented sector. At that time, apartments had become a more common form of dwelling in urban areas, comprising 11% of all occupied households in Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (24 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 and 79 together. The information requested is outlined the attached spreadsheet. The Derelict Sites Act 1990 confers significant powers upon local authorities, including requiring owners or occupiers to take appropriate measures on derelict sites, acquiring derelict sites by agreement, or compulsorily, and applying a derelict sites levy on derelict sites....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The Traveller Accommodation Expert Review report, published in July 2019, reviewed the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998, and other legislation that impacts on the provision and delivery of accommodation for Travellers. The Expert Review report, which is intended to improve the effectiveness of the arrangements for providing accommodation for members of the Traveller community, has...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Digital Archiving (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. I apologise on behalf of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, who is unavailable this morning to take this Commencement matter. Legal deposit legislation is an important instrument in national cultural policy. In Ireland, as in most countries, it is relied upon to ensure the published...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Digital Archiving (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Senator Warfield for his remarks and I absolutely understand his frustration in this context. I am working with what the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, has provided to me. This is not my area of responsibility, but I will revert to the Minister and express the Senator's concern about the response he is getting. My scripted reply is very clear that the report is due but, as the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Student Accommodation (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I apologise on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Harris.He was keen to attend but, unfortunately, but due to Cabinet meeting commitments, he will be unable to do so. The Government has taken action to address affordability in student accommodation. Rent increases in student accommodation are capped under the rent pressure zone provisions. From this year onwards, students cannot be made to pay...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Student Accommodation (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for her Commencement matter. There is great ambition contained in Housing for All.In his role in higher education the Minister, Deputy Harris, has brought additional technical universities together, tried to navigate borrowing capacity for low-cost loans, which will be very important, and brought a guaranteed 10,000 more apprenticeships into the economy every year. This...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for raising this most important Commencement matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection. I pass on her apologies. I also understand the Senator has had discussions with the General Register Office, GRO, on the issues that she has raised, We share the concerns expressed by her. The issue is of huge concern to the Government. I understand...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for her comments and appreciate the frustration she has expressed. I will raise the issue with the Minister for Social Protection and the Department of Health in the context of any jurisdiction it has over the HSE in this regard. As a parent, I appreciate how frustrating it can be when trying to get a child registered, given many key services flow from that. I will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Traveller Accommodation (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Senator Lombard for raising this matter. Many vulnerable people rely on Cork County Council to keep them safe. The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that local authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and for the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller accommodation programmes...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Traveller Accommodation (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Senator Lombard for his concern on behalf of the community in Bantry about this fire. I wish to be very clear about the line of responsibility. It is primarily with the local authority in the first instance. The local authority has advised me, on foot of the Senator's Commencement matter, about the work that has been undertaken as a result of the inspections that took place in...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I wish to flag at the outset that the Government will be making a consequential technical amendment on Report Stage to section 3 of the principal Act. Unfortunately, I cannot accept amendment No. 1, which proposes that the setting of a rent under tenancy of a dwelling may not occur in the period of three years from the commencement of section 3. Besides the difficulties with a blanket ban on...