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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 37: In page 10, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 37 of Principal Act 6. Section 37 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 2A: “LRD Appeals 2B. The Board shall not grant permission for a LRD where the proposed development, or a part of it, contravenes materially...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 39: In page 11, lines 5 and 6, to delete “in particular houses and duplexes” and substitute “including houses, duplexes and apartments”. This amendment very simply extends the definition of homeownership to include apartments. For many people apartments are their forever home and many choose to downsize as they get older by purchasing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will be very quick. I broadly agree with the other Deputies on these amendments. To ensure an inclusive and transparent planning process, we believe that the LRD opinion, and the application documents, should be made available to the public on the planning authority's website within three days of the provision of the LRD opinion. I am not sure where that is going at the moment, but in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: If the current planning system is abolished next week but I put in a planning application tomorrow, I could still be in the system next summer. That is just how it works. There is a 13-week process for planning applications. That is if further information is not sought. If it is, it takes up to six months to go back in. An appeal to An Bord Pleanála can take anything up to six...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 50: In page 18, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: Miscellaneous 18.Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4): “(5) Following a review of the development plan, any material alterations to a draft development plan will be subject to review by the regional assemblies to ensure...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is fair enough.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will withdraw the amendment if it moves the process along.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I briefly spoke to the amendment already. It is really about regional assemblies being able to propose amendments to draft development plans. The Minister said he had a response.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is great. I will withdraw it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I congratulate the Minister of State on the great strides he has made as a Green Minister of State with responsibility for heritage and electoral reform and for the updates today. Two of my questions relate to the recent discussion we had here in the committee with the Heritage Council, with respect to the national policy on architecture, which the Deputy mentioned already. The others...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank the witnesses for sharing their knowledge and wisdom with the committee. The work of Professor Murphy and her colleagues, some of whom I know quite well, for more than a decade have found us where we are, endeavouring to recreate our historic centres that have ended up in their current position. It was not that people were not interested. Since the Act of Union, there has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: Given we do not CPO very often, because there is a process involved and we have to get lawyers in, who have to drink a lot of tea thinking about what they are doing or whatever it is they are at, how do our guests foresee that going forward? My understanding is the push the Government wants is to ensure we find these units and, if they are not being used after six months, CPO them. Do our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 16 December 2021, if the matter relates to his Department and the Department of Health as referred to in the reply from the HSE (details supplied). [1645/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (19 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will publish the report of the independent review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [2089/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Can the Chair hear me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I confirm that I am on the Leinster House campus. Firstly, I congratulate Mr. O'Rourke. I thank him and Mr. Coleman for coming in to brief us today. Their positions in the LDA are extremely important with respect of the delivery of public housing in our country and may the road rise to meet the agency's agenda. I have a number of questions. It is great to hear up front that cost rental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is great. I thank Mr. O'Rourke and Mr. Coleman.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (19 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 1812. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some suppliers increased the cost of antigen tests as demand has soared beyond supply in Ireland, the UK, the United States of America and Australia; his views on the implications this will have on prices and supply of antigen tests in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (19 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 1813. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider subsidisation of antigen tests in cases in which prices have increased due to low supply and high demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 1815. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Immunisation Advisory Committee will report its recommendations regarding BCG immunisation. [1932/22]