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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the planning enforcement section-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am concerned that the removal of this means a value is not being placed on landscapes. Some landscapes can be significant. The committee has discussed this in respect of other legislation with regard to archaeology and heritage. Surely if this has been seldom used,it is not an argument for removing it. It means it has been used responsibly and it has not been overused or abused. It has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not think it has been moved from one place to another. This is an obligation to prepare a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. Quite reasonably, a local authority may have a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. In this, it has its strategy on landscape conservation. The strategy may state there will be a landscape conservation area because the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not a full replacement for a landscape conservation area. Typically if a strategy were to include objectives for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of landscapes, part of the strategy would be an option to designate the area of a landscape conservation area. There may be areas where there are other objectives, and this full level of protection may not be used,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: With respect, we are not proposing to get rid of architectural conservation areas.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Bill allows for the strategy of conservation of natural and built heritage and allows for having architectural conservation areas. The Bill allows for a strategy in respect of landscape but gets rid of landscape conservation areas. Saying it is seldom used does not stack up because every day we talk about parts of the legislation that are seldom used. Earlier, we spoke about part of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is just giving up on landscapes. I disagree strongly with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government is giving up on landscape conservation areas.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: When I was raising the Puškár judgment of the European Court of Justice the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, said there was advice from the Attorney General on it. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, might advise us of the number of instances on which the Attorney General's advice or, indeed, the Government acting on the Attorney General's advice, has been found not to have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is just that amendment No. 956 is specifically about costs.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking the Minister of State because he is here, and that is why I put the question to him. There is wording in the Bill about "significant effects". How and where is the likelihood of significant effects to be determined? This is in section 258(2).

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Forty-three years. I join others in welcoming the families to the Gallery and saying the unlawful killing verdict is very welcome, the formal State apology that has been given is very welcome and the inquests' conclusion as to how the fire started and why it spread so rapidly is welcome. It has put to bed once and for all the original tribunal’s conclusion that the fire was probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all the witnesses and organisations before us. We have heard very loud and clear the strong critique they have made of the Bill and the very serious points they have made about people being denied access to essential supports which they will then get if they are able to initiate legal action. That is, of course, a huge barrier for people to surmount. The general scheme, as it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I strongly support the calls for consultation and for more groups to be asked about this legislation. The risk is that it could well not happen. We recently looked for the evidence behind a significant Bill and were told that all the analysis was done by the office of the Attorney General and the information was not going to be released or shared with us. We frequently do not get the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide further details on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasoning behind the different rates in VAT treatment between psychologists and counsellors/psychotherapists, where psychologists' services are exempt while counsellors' and psychotherapists' services are not; if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 11 April 2024, if there is an available list of new autism classes opening in September 2024/2025; if so, if she will provide same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17345/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look at a case (details supplied) where a pupil who was promised school transport has not been able to start secondary school because transport has not been delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17432/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 20 March 2024, if the Teaching Council will introduce new measures to allow teachers who have qualified outside Ireland to complete their teaching induction in Ireland; if this can be considered as a measure to address the current teacher crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17855/24]