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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Higgins very much. On the vacancy issue, we have done a very significant amount of work through our Town Centre First policy which is a very exciting new enabling policy to unlock the potential in our towns and villages right across the country and to draw these funding investment structures together to enable a ground-up approach from community groups that can work with a town...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I think 75 was the figure referred to in the reply. We must do this in a number of ways. I have been liaising strongly with the local authorities as I go around the country visiting sites. There is a very significant capital programme in Cork that I expect and hope to see commence this year. I have been down there on the ground trying to progress the programme. I have carried it forward...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: We have written to the Deputy in connection with the issue in terms of the timelines. We are working very hard to progress it. I know it has to go through the environmental thresholds, but we expect to have it shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (17 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a deep retrofit scheme for persons (details supplied). [8923/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (17 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: The Traveller Accommodation Expert Review report, published in July 2019, reviewed the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998, and other legislation that impacts on the provision and delivery of accommodation for Travellers. The Expert Review report, which is intended to improve the effectiveness of the arrangements for providing accommodation for members of the Traveller community,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are regulations in place which stop farmers removing waste from buildings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when persons will be able to sell electricity back to the grid. [9246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the use of section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1961; the regularity with which this mechanism is used; if his attention has been drawn to any increased use in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the appeals process will be open for those that were unsuccessful on the sports capital programme announcement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9500/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when new applications will be accepted for sports capital funding 2022. [9501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application for funding under the sports capital programme will be reviewed and the appeal process outlined for a club (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [9502/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 312. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application for funding under the sports capital programme will be reviewed and the appeal process outlined for a club (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [9503/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: 313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application for funding under the sports capital programme will be reviewed and the appeal process outlined for a club (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and the reason it did not receive funding. [9504/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department issued Circular Letter PL 09-2018 on 9 November 2018 advising planning authorities of the commencement of various provisions contained in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 further to the signing of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (Commencement) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 436/2018). Amongst the provisions commenced was an amendment to Section 50B...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. Any such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: €729m was recouped to local authorities to fund the cost of a 9 month rates waiver in 2020. A further €424m was recouped in respect of the 2021 Q1-Q3 rates waiver. These were unprecedented measures, which offered support to businesses and financial certainty to local authorities. The Government, in Budget 2022, announced a more targeted commercial rates waiver than had...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: In January 2022, my Department communicated with local authorities outlining that it is increasing the funding made available since 2018 from €50,000 to €60,000 per annum from mid-2022 to support the work of a Vacant Homes Office including a vacant homes officer to support the commitment in Housing for All to ensuring that vacant homes officers are full-time officers. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended by the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011, provides the legislative basis for the non-principal private residence (NPPR) charge. The NPPR charge, which has since been discontinued, applied from 2009 to 2013 to any residential property in which the owner did not reside as their normal place of residence. The self-assessed charge was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (22 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission.  Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. Any...