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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The board has no role in terms of my verification of cases.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely not, no. That is best practice to use the phrase put forward by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The functions and oversight of the board are clearly set out in section 45. The board has no role in cases or making a determination on specific licence applications. The board cannot because it would defeat the purpose of having a clear corporate governance structure to hold an entity to account.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 135: In page 49, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall remove from office a member of the Board (M) if such removal is necessary in order to ensure that section 43(2)(c)* continues to be complied with.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the members for their contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The data requested in relation to amounts levied and levies outstanding is outlined in the table below. My Department does not collect data on the market value of sites on the Derelict Sites Registers of local authorities. Each local authority can be contacted for this information. The deadline for 2020 data returns to my Department was October 15, 2021 - to date all local authorities, with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Council meetings are an integral and critical part of local democracy through which elected councils carry out statutory reserved functions and provide policy direction and oversight to local authorities. Arrangements for Council meetings are a matter for elected members who must ensure, in accordance with the relevant legislation, the effective discharge of Council business, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 23 of the Local Government Act 2001 empowers the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to divide a local authority area into local electoral areas and to amend those areas. However, in advance of deciding to make an order under section 23 of the Act, the Minister must, in accordance Part V of the Local Government Act 1991 (as amended), request a boundary committee to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)4 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the participation of citizens in local public life recommends steps and measures that impact on a range of government departments. With regard to measures falling to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, my Department is fully focused on the measures outlined in the Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 405 and 408 together. My Department provides funding, on a case by case basis, for the acquisition of housing for Traveller families where suitable accommodation cannot be provided from the existing or newly constructed social housing stock. The amount of funding drawn down for this purpose and the local authority it was drawn down by, is presented below in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: 1259. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department through LEADER funding, Pobal or any other agency under her aegis can provide funding or support to carry out a feasibility study in relation to a capital project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52498/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Part 2 as initiated, augmented with a number of technical amendments that I have proposed, provides the following: definitions and requirements of maritime spatial planning in sections 15, 16, and 17; comprehensive subnational planning through designated maritime area plans in chapter 3; extensive public participation in marine spatial planning processes through the statutory public...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I remind members that we have already taken commitments from them on board. Amendment No. 75 is not the first to be taken on board. Where we can, we will work with members to make this legislation better, such as through giving commitments in the context of the resolution relating to the MPPS and getting information out in respect of public participation by communities that think this issue...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I said the amendment is silent on Article 5.2.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: We are bringing about a new regime here. An agency will be independently assessing all planning applications that go before it. If anyone wants to delve into how the designated marine area plans, DMAP, process will work, it is clearly articulated on page 197 of the National Maritime Planning Framework, NMPF, document. Bearing in mind the scale and size of our maritime area, this is the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I am clear on the question. I said applications will be independently assessed by the maritime area regulatory authority, MARA. A new consent regime is being put through in this legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: All those cases are going to An Bord Pleanála.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: It is not relevant to the amendment before me. I will get that information for the Deputy and we can circulate it.