Results 9,061-9,080 of 15,312 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is likely there will be some dialogue beyond the board of MARA with regard to determining these levies.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are talking about this section as it relates to section 92 as well. Am I correct in saying that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 91(a)(i), in regard to rehabilitating part of a maritime area, refers to a treatment to "restore the part to a satisfactory state, with particular regard to the seabed, water quality, wildlife, natural habitats, landscape and seascape [...]". This concerns the restoration of any aspect of the area within the MAC that one assumes has been damaged, disturbed or affected in some...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. Again, let us make a comparison with terrestrial planning processes. If someone undertakes an unauthorised development on land, then, generally, a planning officer can go to see it and will know what has to be restored. Again, this is a clumsy comparison. In this case, are we saying that the sole responsibility for knowing the baseline condition falls on the holder of the MAC?...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Again-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but there is a thread here that relates specifically to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, I accept that, but does this situation also then apply to any works that will be carried out under licence after the granting of the MAC but before the planning application is put in? Do we have an environmental baseline for-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that give us a similar environmental baseline if damage was done during that stage, instead of post-planning, for instance?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister of State give us some more information on this aspect?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State will correct me if I am wrong, but sections 97 and 98 refer to the granting of MACs by the Minister prior to the commencement of the formal MAC regime overseen by MARA. Again, I invite him to put on the public record additional information that may be of value to the public on how that process will be decided. I know we have discussed it previously out of committee,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, in the case of the transitional projects, it is the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, not the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, who will process those MAC applications and grant the MACs?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any mechanism for public participation or consultation during that grant process? If not, was any consideration given to such a thing?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one very quick question. The Minister of State explained that, once MARA is established, there is an obligation on the MAC applicant to engage with stakeholders prior to the application for the MAC, but also to continue to engage during the course of the MAC, which would be taken into consideration in the planning application. Will a similar obligation be in place with respect to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise to the Chair. I have to leave, but Deputy Gould will take over for me.

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Business Committee for agreeing to my request to have a debate on this important report, Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland, by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute. I wanted this debate not only to discuss the contents of the report but also because what the report's authors and sponsors are trying to do is really...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the guidelines of an organisation (details supplied) state that players under 18 years of age cannot play unless they have been vaccinated; the reason this is the case for basketball but not other sports; and if the guidelines for basketball will be reconsidered. [53948/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the improvement works in lieu of local authority housing schemes can be accessed for works on a private property in which the applicant is a council tenant and surrenders their tenancy to move into the funded works in a private property owned by an extended family member. [53874/21]

Health (Inspection of Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Asylum Seekers Accommodation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect certain emergency homeless residential accommodation in respect of which assistance has been or is being given under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 by a local authority within the meaning the Local Government Act 2001, to enable Health Information and...

Health (Inspection of Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Asylum Seekers Accommodation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."