Results 41-60 of 7,142 for speaker:James Browne

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: It is strictly a matter for the Local Authority to manage Social Housing Allocations, assess the condition of Local Authority stock and carry out necessary refurbishment works. Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council (DLR) has advised that Holly Park was purchased in 2024 in order to prevent 12 families from becoming homeless. A visual survey was conducted by the Council in 2023 prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Coursing events are monitored by staff of the National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department, where possible, to ensure that conditions of the licences issued are being met. Below is a table showing the number of coursing meetings monitored by NPWS staff over the past four seasons: Year Number Monitored by NPWS 2024/2025 45...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: The law governing the use of traps is mainly set down in section 34 of the Wildlife Act 1976 (as amended) and an associated Regulation - the Wildlife Act 1976 (Approved Traps, Snares and Nets) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 620/2003). I can confirm that the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department has been informed of the matter and will conduct an investigation in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: There is no evidence of pregnant hares being present at the Balbriggan/Trim coursing meeting. It is understood that the Question may relate to two young hares which were seen in the vicinity of the coursing field and were captured by the Coursing Club. These young hares were not coursed and they were released with the main cohort of hares under National Parks and Wildlife & Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Licences for the capture and tagging of hares are issued to the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), which is a body set up under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958 and hare coursing is administered by them. Statutory responsibility for the Act resides with the Minster for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Licences issued by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department include a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Responsibility for the delivery of the housing targets set under Housing for All rests with individual local authorities, which identify the social housing need in their administrative area and are best placed to make decisions on potential sites for development. It is therefore a matter for individual local authorities to identify suitable sites and bring forward proposals in line with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: The functions of my Department are broad and complex, and following Government formation earlier this year, there is now an additional Minister of State assigned to the Department. We are also working collaboratively with other Government Departments on Transfers of Functions. The process of assessing which specific functions and responsibilities are to be assigned to each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: The zoning of land for particular purposes, including housing, is an exercise undertaken by planning authorities as part of their overall statutory plan function generally as part of a development plan under sections 9 to 13 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended), but can at present also be carried out as part of a local area plan (LAP) process. The making of a development...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: The EU Short Term Rental (STR) Regulation was adopted by the EU on 11 April 2024 and is applicable from 20 May 2026. This Regulation lays down harmonised rules on the collection and exchange of data on short-term rental services for member states, hosts providing short-term accommodation rental services, and online platforms that offer services to hosts providing short-term accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Following a recommendation made in a review of the Irish private rental sector published by my Department in July 2024, the Housing Agency was commissioned to undertake a review of the current system of rent controls using Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs). My Department received this report on 28 April 2025. I will be considering the report and will bring proposals to Government in due course as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024 (Act of 2024) set out the special provisions relating to judicial review of decisions, acts and failures to act by administrative bodies performing functions under that Act. Chapter 1 concerns procedures through which decisions, acts and failures to act by administrative bodies performing functions under the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: There are a number of housing estates across the country that rely on developer provided infrastructure for their water services. These estates have not, as yet, been taken-in-charge and their water services are not connected to the public Uisce Éireann network. The water services infrastructure in these locations is commonly called DPI. With effect from 1 January 2024, Uisce...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: O’Brien’s Castle, also known as Furmina Castle, is a National Monument in the ownership of the Minister of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. With respect to the maintenance of the castle, the National Monuments Service of my Department works in close partnership with the Office of Public Works. There have been initial discussions between my Department and the Office of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: The built heritage of the ‘North Georgian Core’ can be an asset of great social value. The area contains a wealth of historic buildings which can be conserved and put to a wide range of productive uses to meet the diverse needs of people in the north inner city. The Programme for Government includes commitments to review and expand the Living City Initiative, to incentivise...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: As set out in the Programme for Government, this Government recognises the importance of continuing to support the ongoing expansion and resourcing of our National Parks. To this end, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department, the executive agency with responsibility to Protect Nature, occasionally purchases land for strategic and conservation purposes. Such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. My Department has been in contact with An Bord Pleánala who has advised that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Housing for All commits to increasing the housing options available to older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence. The Housing for All policy objective to make more efficient use of existing housing stock includes exploring options to support and incentivise rightsizing on a voluntary basis. The Programme for Government commits to reviewing and standardising the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1192, 1322 and 1358 together. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and Disabled People scheme, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The suite of grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for Disabled People, the Mobility...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Slaughtering (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: Details of wild deer shot, from 2015/2016 to 2022/2023, using deer hunting licences issued by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) under Section 29 of the Wildlife Acts are available on the Department's Open Data site here: https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/deer-hunting-licence s-issued-by-country-2023-2024. This includes the species of deer and the County in which it was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Slaughtering (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: I have no role or function in relation to the culling of wild goats. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department issues certain licences in relation to wild animals that have protected status under the Wildlife Act, 1976 (as amended). Currently the wild goat is not protected under the Wildlife Acts. NPWS therefore do not issue licenses for the cull of goats nor hold any...