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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Regarding Senator Burke's comment around local authority members and their engagement around development plans and the content, they must be in one sense consistent with the national plan and framework and policies of the Government but also with proper planning around sustainable development. At any stage, local authority members can make a variation to their local area plan or the country...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív. I acknowledge his passion and his commitment in the context of resolving issues for the Traveller community and accommodation-specific challenges. It is a complex issue and we are all aware of this. The good work of the committee is certainly shining a spotlight on how we need to move forward on this. We have made significant progress in this regard. We...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I take the Senator's point. The key word in the section is "prescribed". For example, a retail warehouse is very different from a convenience supermarket. In that context, "prescribed" determines where this fits into the Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Senators raised points on what is prescribed for one particular use, and various analogies around takeaways, retail units and betting shops were made. What is important here is that the type of use of a facility has an impact in various ways, whether it relates to traffic management, opening hours, noise disturbance or size. The important thing is that we specify a premises' prescribed use...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: As I said previously to the Senator, it impacts on different types of originally prescribed planning that was previously granted in relation to that unit

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Yes, and I think there are implications for traffic, size and scale, opening hours, etc. and these are all factored in.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Amendment No. 17, as proposed by Senators Moynihan, Hoey, Sherlock and Wall, seeks to place a ban on material change-in-use permissions for recently developed student accommodation for a period of 15 years following completion. While I acknowledge the good intent behind this amendment, the planning system as it currently exists, as well as the system envisaged under the Bill, requires...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Can I confirm that the Government amendments in the first group, namely, amendments Nos. 5, 7 and 8, were moved previously?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Amendment No. 8, too.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I previously addressed amendment No. 17, which deals with developed student accommodation. I propose now to speak to Opposition amendments Nos. 18 to 26, inclusive, and amendment No. 28. Amendments Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, are all related to short-term letting and various Senators have made comments on that issue. We are awaiting the short-term letting Bill from the Department of tourism....

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Senators for their contributions on sections 10 and 11. Section 10 deals with declarations on development and exempted development and section 11 provides that such declaration shall be conclusive evidence in relevant proceedings brought by an enforcement authority, a local authority or the DPP against a person who requested the declaration unless it is proved that the person...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I will clarify some matters concerning exempted development declarations. The only answer to the question of whether a development is an exempted development is that this provision does not make the development exempted. This is important. A development will have to adhere to enforcement proceedings. Indeed, all planning decisions are on the planning register and publicly available. In...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: 302.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when approval will be granted for contracts (detailed supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35711/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 768 and 891 together. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities to administer the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, which support older and disabled people living in private houses to adapt their home to meet their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: My Department is keen to support the delivery of social housing for people with disability via CAS/Capital Assistance Scheme but through other delivery channels also. The AHB sector is an important element of disability housing delivery and to assist their work in that regard, the Department’s 'Design Manual', which provides guidance and designs for new public housing construction,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: The Collaborative Town Centre Health Check (CTCHC) programme was launched in 2016 by the Heritage Council to gather information that supports the regeneration of historic town centres. In 2019 Local Authorities became directly involved in the programme, which has very successfully analysed a number of towns across Ireland in aspects such as land use, vacancy, surveys of businesses and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: The draft First Revision to the National Planning Framework (NPF) was published by Government for public consultation on 10 July 2024, which will run until 12 September 2024. To date, a number of submissions have been received in relation to the draft from a range of public bodies, sectoral groups and members of the public and these submissions are currently being reviewed by my Department,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: Under Housing for All, there is a policy objective to increase and improve housing options for older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence. Housing for All builds on and takes forward the ongoing actions in 'Housing Options for Our Ageing Population' policy statement from 2019, published jointly by my Department and the Department of Health, which provides policy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: My Department jointly published the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People (NHSDP) 2022-2027 with the Department of Health (DoH) and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) in January 2022 and the Implementation Plan for the Strategy on 22 June 2023. The Strategy and Implementation Plan may be accessed on my Department’s website at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Sep 2024)

Alan Dillon: The undertaking of functions in relation to planning applications and pre-application meetings between a developer and a planning authority is an executive function exercisable by the Chief Executive, or a staff member to whom the function has been delegated. A planning authority is required to undertake its functions in accordance with the open, transparent and verifiable written process set...