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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No, because a decision would need to be made in respect of the additional information after that period had elapsed.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Ireland's 4th National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) 2023 2030 was published in January and sets out Ireland’s vision for biodiversity, namely that by 2050 “Biodiversity in Ireland is valued, conserved, restored and sustainably used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people”. The Plan strives for a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 266 together. Waterways Ireland is a North/South Implementation Body established under the British Irish Agreement of 10 April 1998. It is funded by my Department and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The information requested in relation to any agreement and or licence sought by an identified marina off Lough Ree is not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I am happy to provide an update on this matter. A response to the representations received issued on the 21 December 2023 providing details of where the club in question may apply for a permit to host an event in the Nature Reserve. I can confirm that a request for a permit has now been received in my Department and officials from the NPWS have advised me that they expect to issue a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hedge Cutting (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I refer to my reply to Dáil Question no. 332 on 20 February which sets out the position in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hedge Cutting (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The dates for the cutting of vegetation and hedges are set down in primary legislation. Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976 prohibits the cutting of vegetation, with certain strict exemptions, from 1 March to 31 August. As the dates are set out in primary legislation, I have no power or discretion to vary them. The dates may only be altered by primary legislation enacted by the Oireachtas. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Cases such as referred to in Question No. 290 of 1 February 2024 are prosecuted on behalf of my Department by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor with instruction from the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department. NPWS exercise due diligence in preparing a case file for the Chief State Solicitors Office and work closely with that Office to progress matters. Taking a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The Conservation Advice Scheme for Vacant Traditional Farmhouses was a pilot scheme operated by my Department in 2023. It supported the provision of expert advice to private owners of vacant farmhouses who were availing of or considering applying for the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant. Applications were received from 70 owners for the 2023 pilot scheme, with 34 approved for funding....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: While the law as it stands does not provide for a general definition of the role of archaeologist, the work of archaeologists is subject to statutory regulation in a number of ways. Archaeological excavation cannot be undertaken lawfully except where permitted by a relevant licence or consent issued under the National Monuments Act 1930, as amended. Since the early 1990s it has been the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department is not currently considering the standard referred to and would need to review its content and legal standing before taking any steps in relation to it. Ireland’s policy on archaeological heritage is based on the provisions of the 1992 European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (the Valletta Convention) and this informs all relevant policies and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The existing National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014, and the Planning and Development Act 2000, currently enable compliance with the Valletta Convention with its aim of the protection of archaeological heritage as a source of the European collective memory and as an instrument for historical and scientific study. The more recently enacted Historic and Archaeological Heritage and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The EU Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy) establishes a common framework for the protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater. River basin management planning, structured in six-year cycles, along with its associated Programme of Measures, is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The National Landscape Strategy was devised in 2014 to give effect to the European Landscape Convention. Implementation of the National Landscape Strategy is implicit in many of the actions taken across the built and natural heritage sphere. The current work being undertaken across Government in the context of the land use review will supplant and overtake that strategy. In parallel, my...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is, as in an advertisement structure. The Deputy is talking about where advertisement structures are being put back in, where-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No, it does not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It does not. The definition in section 12 is "a public electronic communications network, within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2018/1972".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is in subsection 12(1)(a).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Where it is defined, that is the overground electronic communications infrastructure, so there is no definition there. It is taken as read.