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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Not to labour the point, but I ask the Senator to look at section 58(12)(e). Where, in proposing a variation the members of an authority are not in compliance with the Office of the Planning Regulator or the Minister, they have to give notice of the reasons for the decision not to comply with the recommendations concerned.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No, that is it. There is no recommendation. Let us be very clear. Senator McDowell is suggesting that there is some sort of other veto, but that is not in the Bill before us. We need to be honest about that. It is clear in section 58(12)(e).

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I apologise to the Minister for his sitting in the chair for the last three hours without getting to speak. I promise I will be brief in my points. I feel left out of the conversation this morning, so felt the necessity of contributing. I will bring it around the amendments and sections we are dealing with. Section 46 deals with housing development strategies and section 52 is on...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: It is unfair to target a Member like that.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

John Cummins: I welcome the fact that today 49 cost-rental units will be advertised in Mountneil in Waterford city. These are being delivered by a local developer in partnership with Tuath Housing Association and Waterford City and County Council. These 49 A-rated three-bedroom and two-bedroom homes are being delivered at rents ranging from €1,000 to €1,200 depending on the size of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The Leader is aware that I sought a debate with the Minister for Transport and the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, on aviation policy. This is the fifth occasion that I have used the Order of Business to seek such a debate. My understanding from the previous response I received was that the request has gone in from the Seanad Office every time but that to date no timescale has been...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for taking the Commencement matter. She will agree that the work civil registration offices do daily to register births, deaths and marriages is invaluable. The staff in all of these offices are to be commended on the work they do. She will also agree with the importance of this essential service being located in areas that are easily accessible to the public...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is actually health.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for her response but unfortunately it does not address the matter sufficiently. This is a staffing issue, yes. For some bizarre reason, the HSE is responsible for the staffing in these offices even though civil registration is actually under the remit of the Department of Social Protection. In the first line of her response, the Minister of State mentioned...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I want to make a number of points on the section related to the definitions in the Bill. I welcome this long overdue legislation to reform part of the Seanad. The Minister has been quite clear, as has the Minister of State, that this is a process. This is not the end of what Seanad reform will be but it is a significant stepping stone. I am fortunate enough to have voted in the 2009,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I again raise the issue of a debate on national aviation policy. I have asked five or six times at this stage for the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, or the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, to come into the House. In light of comments the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, made in the Dáil Chamber last week, I would like it scheduled for the week we return after the mid-term...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Chair. To take off from where Dr. Lyons finished, it would be helpful to have that wording because it is not in his opening statement I have taken a few notes on what he said. As regards the minority report, was it just two members of the commission who constituted that minority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The wording is not in the statement in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The way Dr. Lyons describes this is interesting. I would like to know whether the minority report was put to the overall commission. Dr. Lyons cannot answer that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: What was the time lag between both reports, that is, the report at the original meeting versus the minority report, as we are terming it here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I will make one comment before Mr. Boyle comes in. I read Mr. O'Flynn's opening statement last night. Much of what he said I could say myself. It is a topic about which I have an open mind. I am on record as saying so. While I do not feel I have been fully convinced of the need for it in full, it is not something that I have ruled out either. The Housing Commission analysed it in far...