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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: 302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding issued to an association (details supplied) under the Covid sport resilience fund in 2020 and 2021; the conditions attached to this funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29592/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: My Department does not have direct involvement in executive functions such as procurement, carried out by a local authority.  Under Section 149 of the Local Government Act 2001, the Chief Executive of a local authority is responsible for the executive functions of the local authority, and for that purpose to manage and control generally, the administration and business of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: A wide range of exemptions from planning permission are already provided for under Section 4 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, (the Act) and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, (the Regulations). Such exemptions are provided for when they are considered to be consistent with proper planning and sustainable development. Under Class 1...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have a statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. In this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: On 4 June 2019, my Department wrote to planning authorities with Rent Pressure Zone designations (RPZs) - to which the short-term letting regulations apply - seeking estimated resource funding requirements for the implementation and enforcement of the new short-term letting (STL) provisions, to cover the period to the end of 2021. My Department wrote again to planning authorities on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: 448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the income limits will be reviewed for carer’s allowance applicants; when these limits were reviewed most recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29280/21]

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senators for their important contributions as we move through our Affordable Housing Bill. Amendment No. 19 seeks to add a condition to section 7, that a housing authority may only enter into an agreement for the sale of affordable dwellings "where the dwellings specified in the agreement meet such criteria of affordability", and to include a criteria that any such dwellings...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Peter Burke: The Minister will be setting the method of assessment in terms of the eligibility criteria through regulations which will come before the House, as I outlined last Friday. These can be extinguished by the House within 21 days.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank each of the Senators for raising the various issues they have put forward. I look forward to engaging with everyone today. I do not propose to accept this amendment because it would require all regulations to be the subject of positive approval by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The existing provision gives either House of the Oireachtas the power to pass a resolution annulling any...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senators for their comments. It is not proposed to accept this amendment. It is not clear that the provisions in the amendment, as structured, including using the phrase "paramount concern" in respect of housing authorities, would have a definite legal effect. The supply of affordable housing by a local authority is influenced by a range of considerations, including identified...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senators for engaging on this. I will respond to the amendments together, as outlined earlier by the Leas-Chathaoirleach. These amendments refer to and are connected with the power given to local authorities in the Bill to provide financial assistance to eligible purchasers to purchase dwellings on the open market. They propose removing that power and any reference to it from...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: The Senator obviously has a problem when he hears the truth. The truth of the matter is what his party is doing, which is opposing housing in the State, as this Government tries to get sites that have been lying idle for decades back into use for our citizens and for sustainable communities. We have seen many examples of sites where providing community centres, parks and key infrastructure...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I acknowledge Senator Warfield's amendment. Without doubt it has a significant portion to play. What I would say is that capacity is the issue we are concerned about.While I do not propose to accept the amendment at the present time, I recognise that there is significant merit attached to it, what Senator Warfield and other Senators have brought to the debate, and for considering it in the...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: Yes.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Senators for engaging in the debate. I do not propose to accept this amendment. In respect of allowing, where appropriate, housing authorities to enter into such arrangements, including joint ventures, in order to deliver affordable housing for sale in one of the ways that might deliver housing, as I said previously and as some Members have referenced, the LDA will be a game changer...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senators for a debate I genuinely value. Much good content has recurred throughout the different themes. Before I address the amendments, regarding what Senators Casey and Boyhan said about the section 183 process and the LDA, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is working hard to try to resolve that issue. As the Minister of State with responsibility for local authorities, I...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Senators for their contributions on this matter. They are correct on the importance of language in legislation. This is not an issue of principle but a legal issue in terms of the direction given on the Planning and Development Acts. I agree to take another look at the amendment. I propose to accept amendment No. 12, which was touched on by Senator Higgins, to show our commitment...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Peter Burke: We are accepting this amendment and I hope that reflects the broad thrust of the day. We have accepted amendments and we have given commitments to come back on others because we genuinely value the contributions made by Senators.