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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: CEO.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not know the Deputy's cousin Vinny but I know of a film called "My Cousin Vinny".

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy is forgetting that Vinny won the case.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Vinny won the case.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank all Deputies for their engagement. I believe we have had roughly seven hours of debate. I thank the officials in the Department and the planning officials here who have done an extraordinary body of work. That has to go on the record. Deputy Fitzmaurice is still in the House. I shall approach my response through the Bill itself. It is important to say that while the Deputy...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We want people to live in rural Ireland. We want the schools to be populated. We want rural towns and rural villages to do well. Under European Union law we must comply with the habitats directive. We are currently doing an update on the national planning framework. We are meeting with the planning advisory forum, which I chair. We have a body of work commissioned with the Economic...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for bringing forward this Bill. As he stated, the Government will not be opposing the Bill and will allow it to progress for detailed debate on Committee Stage. In preparation for this, I have gone through the Bill quite forensically with the officials in order to see where we stand. I will go through a couple of aspects. It must be recognised that the legal...

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Based on a sample.

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: May I speak for a second?

Tenancy Protection Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for his Bill. We are not opposing the Bill and we want to engage. I mention the empirical evidence that has been provided to us to date. The Government has noted that we are allowing the Bill to proceed to scrutiny by the relevant committee. However, the Government has noted that the reliance on the exemption has caused few disputes or referrals to the RTB....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Housing for All commits to reviewing the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme and a report on the review has been prepared by my Department. The review was informed by engagement with external stakeholders, including the Department of Health, the HSE, the Disability Federation of Ireland and the Irish Wheelchair Association. Written submissions were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 23 together. Under Housing for All, the Government has targeted delivery of 47,600 new build social homes; 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing, and 28,500 new affordable homes from 2022 to 2026. Each local authority has prepared its own 5-year Housing Delivery Action Plan setting out their planned social and affordable housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: As you are aware Minister O'Brien commenced the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (the Act) on 22 June 2023 which contains the enhanced grant scheme and adopted the related Regulations on 29 June 2023. In March 2023 Engineers Ireland engaged with officials in my Department regarding the certification of specific options under the Enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Cost rental is a new form of tenure which was introduced under the Affordable Housing Act 2021, where rents are set only to cover the cost of financing, building, managing and maintaining the homes. Under various schemes, the State may provide a subvention to reduce the initial capital cost and make the starting cost rent more affordable. In return, the homes are designated as cost rental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Risk Management (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Local authorities are designated as lead agencies for coordinating the local response to flooding emergencies as per the Government decision relating to the “Framework for Major Emergency Management” (2006). The arrangements for emergency management are seen as having worked very well, in particular the responses led by local authorities to flooding and other severe weather...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 38 and 82 together. Housing for All commits to reviewing the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme and a report on the review has been prepared by my Department. The review was informed by engagement with external stakeholders, including the Department of Health, the HSE, the Disability Federation of Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities to administer the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, which support older and disabled people living in private houses to adapt their home to meet their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility Aids Grant and the Housing Aid for...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move: That Standing Order 187 is modified in accordance with Standing Order 233(2) to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee in relation to the Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023, that the Committee has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill in relation to:the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended...