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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Rates (23 Jul 2020)

Peter Burke: The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority, who are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes. In terms of the Deputy's specific query, land that is developed for sport, such as playing pitches, is exempt from rates under the Valuation Act 2001. There is also provision for the exemption of community...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (23 Jul 2020)

Peter Burke: The General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill was approved by Government in December 2019 and published by my Department in January this year. This Bill will provide the legislative basis for Ireland's new marine planning regime, which includes forward planning, development management and enforcement. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to enact...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Peter Burke: I am aware that Bord na Móna is currently in the process of applying to obtain the necessary planning consents in terms of its peat extraction activities and that the process is ongoing. In this regard, I understand that Bord na Móna has recently been granted leave by An Bord Pleanála to apply for substitute consent in respect of its peat extraction operations and has...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (31 Jul 2020)

Peter Burke: I am grateful to the Leas-Chathaoirleach and to all Senators for facilitating the urgent passage of this very important legislation through Seanad Éireann today. I accept that the time allowed for debate is necessarily short. The Government is keen to deliver for renters today. The programme for Government recognises the important role that the private rental sector plays in housing...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Sep 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions. We all meet people in our clinics with genuine concerns and the most vulnerable people we see are those affected by the issues raised here tonight. It is important that we respond in the most genuine fashion in trying to ensure we protect the most vulnerable. We all know that rents are unaffordable, that we need a sustainable rental market...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (30 Sep 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh for his very important Topical Issue matter. St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest medieval church in Ireland. It has been recorded by my Departments national inventory of architectural heritage and rated of national significance. It is included on the Dublin City Council record of protected structures. Although substantially restored in the mid-19th...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (30 Sep 2020)

Peter Burke: St. Patrick's Cathedral is one of Ireland's most important historic structures, still operating as per its original purpose 800 years after its construction. The cathedral normally welcomes in excess of 600,000 visitors annually and is of strategic importance to the surrounding businesses. The major roof conservation project currently under way at the cathedral provides employment to many...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (30 Sep 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputies O'Callaghan and Ward for raising this very important matter. I appreciate that both Deputies have considerable concerns relating to the demolition of The O'Rahilly's house at 40 Herbert Park, Dublin 4. I understand that permission for such works was granted by An Bord Pleanála on 8 September 2020. The Deputies should be aware that under section 30 of the Planning and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (30 Sep 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank both Deputies for their responses. As I indicated earlier, it is inappropriate for me, as the Minister of State with responsibility for planning matters, to become involved in or to make any comment on this matter as the law simply precludes me from doing so. The planning authorities and the board are independent statutory bodies under the provisions of the planning Act and, as...

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for her question. The programme for Government commits to the State playing a greater part in directly providing affordable and social homes with a focus on middle income earners and developing sustainable mixed tenure communities. These principles will guide our housing policy and the work of the Land Development Agency, LDA, in assembling strategic sites in urban areas...

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy. It is clear that the Land Development Agency wants to deliver public housing on public lands. The make-up of that is clearly directed and includes affordable housing, cost rental and social homes. Actions speak louder than words. Planning permission has been granted for lands at Shanganagh, the application for which was submitted by the Land Development Agency, in...

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: The Land Development Agency will play a key role. The Deputy mentioned O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin. The project has been approved under the second serviced sites fund. That project and another in Killinarden were approved in August 2019. Those two projects will assist in the delivery of 465 affordable homes, with 165 in O'Devaney Gardens and 300 in Killinarden. The Department is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 34 and 67 together. I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for the question. The programme for Government commits to maintaining the right of social housing tenants to purchase their own homes with some changes to eligibility. The current tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 is open to eligible tenants, including joint tenants, of local authority houses that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank each of the Deputies for their questions. In line with the programme for Government, the review which had been commenced has to be refined, because of the agreement that was made regarding the three issues I alluded to in the programme for Government. We have to be very careful as Deputies when we are talking about cash buyers buying local authority housing. We have to be very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: Yes, it is ready and present. To be clear, the review had been completed and has to be revised to take into account what was agreed by the three parties and unanimously adopted by their membership. That will happen shortly. I cannot give an exact timeframe for that because I do not know. That is the honest answer.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: We are talking about three months. We are doing the budget at the moment which takes priority but it will be as soon as possible. Politicians are mad for people to put an exact date on things, but things can happen beyond our control, especially in this Department. We have many matters to respond to every day and we are trying to negotiate a significant budget. I am not proposing to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: That is why I said that the majority of cases are genuine. I was at pains to point that out.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: He was never a councillor.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Murphy for his question. As I pointed out earlier, it is key that the Land Development Agency is developing a model of housing which is social, affordable and cost-rental housing. From the applications that have been received by the LDA, actions speak louder than words. For example, the matrix for the applications in Shanganagh and Dún...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Peter Burke: From reading the programme for Government, the delivery mechanism of the Land Development Agency is very clear. It will be through mixed tenure of social, affordable and cost-rental housing. That is the mechanism that will be employed and the legislation that will come through the House will make very clear that no privatisation of the LDA will be allowed. It will be very transparent in...