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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: I listened to the number of points made by Senator McDowell. He made some great points about the legislation. As a group of Senators, we met the regulator on one occasion. The regulator told us there is absolutely nothing that councillors cannot put into a county development plan. They can do everything. I would like clarity on that point. Councillors tell us they can do nothing and can...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Two sections, sections 7 and 8, deal with short-term lets. What is different in section 7 regarding short-term lets? Is it just because they are in the rent pressure zone area-----

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: We are dealing with section 7 and short-term lets as they relate to rent pressure zones, which are included in section 7.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Section 7(d) deals with short-term lets. It references "short-term letting (within the meaning of section 8)" and rent pressure zones. Is it just short-term lets in rent pressure zone areas that section 7 deals with? Are such lets dealt with differently under this section than in section 8 or will section 7 deal with them in the same way?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Short-term lets are a result of the changes brought about by the Internet, such as people being able to do business online. They have been brilliant for tourism areas and I am sure some of those areas are in rent pressure zones. We have been lobbied by people who let their properties short term to supplement their wages and pay for children to go to third level education. It is a way of...

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

Paddy Burke: Having listened to Senator McDowell, he is suggesting we are creating a legal quagmire in this Bill for generations to come. Yesterday, it also transpired this measure would be applied retrospectively to every business as well. I did not think we could have legislation with a retrospective impact. It was pointed out yesterday, however, that this measure could be retrospectively applied to...

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

Paddy Burke: It seems that the Planning Regulator has a huge role in these plans. When one takes the regional assemblies into account and the plans they bring forward in the making of their own regional and economic strategies, it seems to me from my reading of this Bill, which is quite complex and complicated, that the Planning Regulator feeds into the regional assembly and that is what then feeds down...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Paddy Burke: I wish to raise an issue relating to tracker mortgages. We had a big debacle in recent years with regard to tracker mortgages and how unfairly people on tracker mortgages were treated by the banks. In all, more than 40,000 people were badly treated by banks over a number of years in the context of tracker mortgages. Some time ago, a number of borrowers brought a case against Ulster Bank....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Paddy Burke: The new Electoral Commission was set up to look after both the Dáil and Seanad elections, constituencies and the electoral register. I call for a debate on how the electoral register is commissioned and maintained and what changes the new Electoral Commission has made or is making. I ask because I have not seen any great changes to the electoral register. Some people are not on it...