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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 and 131 together. Housing for All, the most ambitious housing plan in the history of our State, was published in September 2021. The Plan details a comprehensive suite of actions that has and will continue to increase the provision of housing through accelerating supply and increasing the affordability of homes for our citizens, including those in Carlow....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I am pleased to note that funding approvals are now in place for the delivery of over 4,000 affordable purchase and cost rental homes by 21 local authorities with the support of the Affordable Housing Fund to secure affordable upfront purchase prices and cost rents. This is a significant level of activity. Despite well-documented affordability and viability challenges, the arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76 and 83 together. Housing for All sets out a range of actions to increase the supply of housing out to 2030, including providing 54,000 affordable homes for purchase and rent. These homes will be delivered by Local Authorities, AHBs, the LDA, through the First Home Scheme, and by bringing vacant homes back into use. Significant public funding is being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The National Monuments Service of my Department administers the Community Monuments Fund (CMF). The core aims of the CMF are to:enable conservation works to be carried out on monuments which are deemed to be significant and in need of urgent support;build resilience in our monuments to enable them to withstand the effects of climate change;encourage access to monuments and improve their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In line with UNESCO advice that World Heritage Tentative Lists be reviewed and updated at least once every ten years, in January 2019, my Department launched a call for applications to a new Tentative List for Ireland. The Tentative List is an inventory of potential sites that Ireland intends to nominate for inclusion on the World Heritage List. Each site on the Tentative List must...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The publication of legislation to provide a legal basis for National Parks is a priority for the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) within my Department. The NPWS is currently assessing the requirements of such legislation and considering how best to advance legislation in such a way as to maximise possible benefits to the National Park System. It should be noted, just as the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo was added to Ireland's World Heritage Tentative List in 2022. My Department has met a number of times with Sligo County Council to discuss how the nomination towards World Heritage status should proceed and we are currently finalising a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Authority that will set out the overarching nomination structure, key...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Under the provisions of the National Monuments Acts, my Department has established and maintains a Record of Monuments and Places (RMP) which affords legal protection to all recorded archaeological sites and monuments in the State, including the passage tomb on privately owned land such as Cairns Hill. The National Monuments Acts permit me, as Minister, to acquire a monument which I, as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department supports the built heritage sector principally through the work of the National Built Heritage Service (NBHS), which oversees funding schemes, surveys historic buildings, contributes to policy development, provides technical advice to owners and professionals, and promotes community engagement with our built heritage. In relation to funding support in particular: The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (30 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) sets out the framework for the protection of historic buildings, giving local authorities power to add buildings to their record of protected structures, which then places obligations on owners and on the planning authority itself to prevent endangerment of the building. My Department supports local authorities and owners through the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 111: In page 62, to delete lines 13 and 14 and substitute the following: “15.(1)This Act shall not operate to restrict or otherwise affect the functions of a Minister of the Government or the Commissioners under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 or the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. (2)The performance by a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I can assure the Deputy that it is a straightforward amendment being introduced to provide for the recent enactment of the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. Given the anticipated phased commencement of that Act, it is important that section 15 of the Bill is restructured to make references to both the historic and archaeological heritage Act and the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 112: In page 62, line 28, to delete “identified and”. The majority of these amendments are minor and grammatical in nature, resultant of the ongoing process of quality assurance that has been proceeding throughout the legislative process. This Bill, one of the largest in the history of the State, has over 500 sections and, therefore, it is natural to...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the debate. Before I respond to some of the comments, I will put on the record that the comments made by Deputy Mattie McGrath about the Environmental Protection Agency are an absolute disgrace. I call on the Deputy to withdraw them and to correct the record of the Dáil in respect of what he said. His anti-science world view is not welcome in this Chamber. We are seeing it...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I disagree fundamentally-----

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: -----that this Government has made no progress on biodiversity. We have done much more than many Governments in previous years. Deputy Conway-Walsh mentioned Mayo, which probably has more LIFE projects interacting with one other, such as LIFE on Machair, Corncrake LIFE and Wild Atlantic Nature, than any other county. Again, farmers and landowners are participating very enthusiastically in...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is embedded in the-----

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is embedded in the national biodiversity action plan which is now on a statutory footing.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is embedded in the plan so whoever is standing here will be developing-----

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: -----a nature restoration plan. Whoever is here will be developing-----