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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authorities (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Local Property Tax (LPT) was introduced to provide a stable and sustainable funding base for the local authority sector, providing greater levels of connection between local revenue and associated expenditure decisions.  LPT broadens the tax base by reducing the level of central funding required by local government. Local retention of LPT was introduced in 2015 and since then,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh. I thank the members, and in terms of going into private session, the public, for bearing with us. In private session, we expanded on the questions from the Deputies. I wish to explicitly state that public bodies have to take into account guidelines and directions that are issued. As was stated before we went into public session, some of those guidelines have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: This grouping of amendments proposes similar Oireachtas engagement procedures for guidelines and directives to those proposed earlier for the marine planning policy statement, MPPS, and are equally problematic. The net effect of the proposals would be that the Oireachtas would take the role of the Minister of the day on a day-to-day operational level of the planning regime. The Oireachtas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies for their comments. I draw their attention to section 7, which is clear, in respect of the requirements for ministerial guidelines, about what is to be laid before the Houses. Regarding section 28, Deputy Ó Broin gave valuable examples of where the Oireachtas committee engaged on guidelines that had been issued. I remind him that it was not the result of a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: It is the same answer.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the members for their amendments. This grouping contains certain technical amendments to the publication procedures in respect of guidelines and are repeated verbatim for directives. The amendments are not necessary. The current text already provides for publication on websites. It is also intended to publish or provide a link to those documents on the marine spatial planning data...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: The Deputy is very helpful to us.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I genuinely think that we are at one on all this. It is the Government's interest to ensure that all information is published. Anyone objectively examining how we went about our business in respect of undertaking consultation on the national marine planning framework right around the country will see that it was all about ensuring transparency...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the members for their comments. This grouping of amendments proposes revised considerations of the development of guidelines and directives and, as already stated by committee members in relation to the repetition, the plans prepared under this Bill are subject to all of the things set out in these amendments. What the amendments are attempting to achieve has already been achieved....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely. It is because it is totally incoherent and totally inoperable. I ask the Deputy to consider what he is asking. In amendment No. 58, subsection (a), the Deputy is asking to act consistently with totally unrelated bodies. It is totally incoherent and we have already provided for it in a structured way that interconnects throughout the Bill. What the Deputy is proposing is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: It is about the text that is being proposed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: The point I am making is that what is being proposed is totally inoperable.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Certainly not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I do not know how the Deputy could get that in what I have said. I am just making the point, very clearly, that we have it covered off through screening under section 31. I have been very clear here. To just liberally list off every single directive on each section of the Bill does not enhance the Bill. It makes it totally inoperable.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: We do not have to agree on too many points, we might start to get worried.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Essentially, I am saying that it does not work.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely it is from the point of view of coherent legislation. It is technically deficient. This is what I have said.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: The maritime spatial planning directive is all over the Bill. The Deputy does not need to pick parts out of it. It is all over the Bill.