Results 10,341-10,360 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What sort of fine would we expect in the Derrybrien case if it was to go to the middle of next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will be somewhere between €15 and €20 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a concern that this could open up problems for the legal standing of substitute consents that have been approved to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to clarify public participation in the context of the last two questions. Is it in phase 1 and phase 2? Will it be all aspects of the existing cases, including documents and information concealed, and the exceptionality test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a key piece for us to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come back in later if I get a chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not a question that requires a response but a number of us do have more detailed questions on the substitute consent. Our difficulty is that we must table amendments at 11 a.m. on Thursday and we have not yet seen the final text of the Department's amendments because it has not been published. We will have to consider amending things that have yet to be published. Without in any way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are clear, this means we will not be in a position to potentially amend the Government's substitute consent text, which is really a standalone piece of legislation. Other than us giving an opinion on it while on Second Stage, Members of the Dáil will have no ability to seek to amend any of that because of the way this is being set up. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The issue is that effectively no member of this committee or Member of the Dáil will be able to seek to amend the substitute consent portions of the Bill because that would only be approved on Committee Stage on Wednesday and will then go straight on to Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is no criticism of the officials here but that is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, that is no criticism of the officials, but it is the first time this has ever happened during my time in the Oireachtas. I would like my discontent recorded in the minutes. Again, that is no criticism of Mr. Lemass or Mr. Kelly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if advice has been given by his Department to the Housing Agency or local authorities regarding establishing whether successful applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme are being required to provide proof that they are not in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme before being able to draw down their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding plans in place to assist Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park, which have suffered an income loss due Covid-19 restrictions. [40030/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical update of the Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities 2018 document in relation to co-living will be issued as Ministerial guidance under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). [40661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will sign and publish the updated guidance document that includes a specific planning policy requirement on co-living; if this will effect an outright ban on co-living; and if planning authorities will have to have regard to this guidance when deciding on a co-living application submitted prior to the issuing of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the circular issued to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála on the issue of co-living following his announcement of a ban on such developments. [40033/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report by a person (details supplied) in relation to marine protected areas as part of the broader development of a marine planning framework will be published. [39831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the complete list of institutes, centres and premises that are approved for EU trade in animals under EU Directive 92/65 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the community of animals, semen, ova and embryos; if the list is publicly available on the website of his Department;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a portion of the 10% set aside for the greyhound care fund is in fact being ring-fenced to develop and maintain a traceability system for greyhounds, given that traceability is an operational cost for any industry; the reason care funds that are specifically for animal welfare purposes are being used to for operational matters;...