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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: It is planning. Licensing is different and it is on the way to getting planning. This applies to planning permissions that have been granted.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: No. Absolutely not. It relates to planning permissions that have been granted.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I said there is "no national plan" as detailed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I just want to let members know that the response I have is very long.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: It might be more appropriate to pause at this point because the response is very long.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I did.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: I do not think members get it when they suggest there is some pass on a Minister such that he or she can escape or evade complying with EU directives. They must be complied with.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: In the first instance, we have a plan. It is the national marine planning framework. The plan is there. It is in existence. It has been passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas through resolution and all planning permissions must comply with it. Thus it is absolutely clear it must comply with all directives.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Peter Burke: It is not just the policy directive but all the other items as well that are not consistent with each other. I am being very clear in terms of the detail that it is not technically operable and that is our strict advice here on this front. I cannot say any more on it. That is the way it is.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Council meetings are an integral and critical part of local democracy through which elected councils carry out statutory reserved functions and provide policy direction and oversight to local authorities. Arrangements for Council meetings are a matter for elected members who must ensure, in accordance with the relevant legislation, the effective discharge of Council business, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 23 of the Local Government Act 2001 empowers the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to divide a local authority area into local electoral areas and to amend those areas. However, in advance of deciding to make an order under section 23 of the Act, the Minister must, in accordance Part V of the Local Government Act 1991 (as amended), request a boundary committee to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)4 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the participation of citizens in local public life recommends steps and measures that impact on a range of government departments. With regard to measures falling to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, my Department is fully focused on the measures outlined in the Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 405 and 408 together. My Department provides funding, on a case by case basis, for the acquisition of housing for Traveller families where suitable accommodation cannot be provided from the existing or newly constructed social housing stock. The amount of funding drawn down for this purpose and the local authority it was drawn down by, is presented below in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: 1259. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department through LEADER funding, Pobal or any other agency under her aegis can provide funding or support to carry out a feasibility study in relation to a capital project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The data requested in relation to amounts levied and levies outstanding is outlined in the table below. My Department does not collect data on the market value of sites on the Derelict Sites Registers of local authorities. Each local authority can be contacted for this information. The deadline for 2020 data returns to my Department was October 15, 2021 - to date all local authorities, with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 and 274 together. I refer to the reply to Question No. 388 of 2 November 2021. The position remained the same.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: An Bord Pleanála (the Board) is the national independent statutory body with responsibility for the determination of planning appeals and direct applications for strategic infrastructure and other developments under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and certain other Acts. Section 126 of the Act provides that it shall be the duty and objective of the Board to decide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 6(1) of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) outlines the ways in which notices relating to derelict sites can be served by local authorities on a person under the Act. These are: (a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to him; (b) by leaving it at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished,...