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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I know that there are a few more-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: We will consider all of the issues raised and submissions made and come back with a final document. I am not here to have the answer to every question for the committee. I wish I could, but we have not finished the document. This is an opportunity for members to raise issues. I am not here to talk all day and cannot do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: When he was out of the room, I answered the Deputy's question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I was talking about industrial land and jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: Chairman, I have other commitments that I have to get to. I am sorry - I have been here since 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I will address that. I said I would address that earlier on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I would be delighted to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: The reason I am here today is not to have every answer for members but to hear their all their thoughts and to feed these through the strategy. I will touch on some of them and I have dealt with some of them repeatedly. People have been in and out but I accept that people are busy and so on. If a question from a member has not been answered, he or she can check the record to see the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: Can I answer the question, Chairman? I am saying the wording will be strengthened. Committee members will see the wording but it will clearly include social ties because of the issue around families and the connection to families and so on. People want to have that included and we have committed to that. I have said that repeatedly today and I will say it again in case it has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I am trying to explain it to Deputy Ó Cuív. We are changing the wording. It is a draft.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: Planning was always provided for. We have referred to economic and functional need. Deputy Michael Collins referred to having a business in a rural area. Planning always allows for that. If a business needs to be on the land or has to be there, planning deals with that. There may be an economic and functional need to be in a certain place. One example is farming or using the land -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I am not finished, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I am trying to explain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: I am saying that what we have committed to doing is to change the wording and I will reflect the social need as well. That will address the concerns of Deputy Healy-Rae and many others. That is what will be in it. I explained to Deputy Michael Collins the issue relating to people supporting local employment in an area. Planning allows for that. It applies to this plan and other plans....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: Chairman, can I finish? There is a notion being given here that no one gets a one-off house. I accept that not everyone who wants one gets one. The reality is that we have built 6,000 or 7,000 rural houses every year in recent years. We have not stopped rural one-off houses and we have no intention of doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: That is why I have said to the committee repeatedly that we will strengthen the wording.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: Chairman, there has to be some order because of what I am trying to do here. We have been here all day. I am trying to answer questions fairly and honestly. Another question was asked in respect of core strategy. We are saying that core strategies have to reflect that there will be one-off housing, as well as housing in towns and villages. We want to have it. We have asked local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Damien English: The reason we have this is to help us plan for the services that will be required. If members are going to argue for the provision of increased rural transport services or other services for particular areas, we must have an idea of for whom they will be needed. They will be required for the people in an area and to meet the demand on foot of additional housing that will be required in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (12 Dec 2017)

Damien English: In December 2015, my Department made a call for local authorities to supply details of relevant estates that required to be taken in charge in order to draw up a national list of housing estates not taken in charge. This exercise was carried out under the National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) to provide a list of estates not yet taken in charge. The list is available at the following...