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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am always suspicious when I am told something is simply "technical" because in planning everything is technical and has an import. Will the Minister of State give us some concrete or indicative examples of the kinds of planning permission we are talking about?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Under what set of rules would they have been granted before? Again, this is just my way of getting the Minister of State to put this information on the public record.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It takes in planning applications and approvals under the existing regime for the foreshore.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They would have been granted by local authorities.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Given we have only a few minutes left, I reserve the right to come back on some of the latter amendments in this group as I will only get to the first few. Again, some of my questioning is really just an invitation for the Minister of State to explain the intricacies of this process a little more on the public record. Most of us have experience of terrestrial planning and we know the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the only State-wide plan so that is a fair caveat. Let me get back to the detailed point because this is important. With a county development plan, for example, we have all the land uses mapped out and agreed. This is pertinent to the session we will have with the other Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, around marine protected areas, because until we have those or the interim...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important discussion. Pausing it at this point-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is as substantive a section as the previous one.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that.

Health (Inspection of Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Asylum Seekers Accommodation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect certain emergency homeless residential accommodation in respect of which assistance has been or is being given under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 by a local authority within the meaning the Local Government Act 2001, to enable Health Information and...

Health (Inspection of Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Asylum Seekers Accommodation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current position with customers who have, on the advice of Government. installed solar power and await a system to receive payment on return of excess to the grid. [52506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the comprehensive review into the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; when proposals will be presented and considered by his Department; and when reforms to the criteria will take place. [52159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Assets (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the investments in bioenergy companies through the ISIF; the investments that are held in companies (details supplied); and if there are plans to divest from them. [52505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Wildlife Protection (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of a bat roost at Emo Court House; if the necessary authorisation was obtained; and if so, if the authorisation will be made available. [52302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current public health advice with respect to the hosting of indoor sporting events such as darts in public houses and other licensed premises. [52990/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the deadline for pre-application strategic housing development submissions has been extended beyond October 2021; the reason for this extension; the date of the new deadline; and if the new deadline for formal strategic housing development applications to An Board Pleanála will be prior to the discontinuation of the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of a bat roost at Emo Court House; if the necessary authorisation was sought; and if he will seek a prosecution under the Wildlife Acts if the destruction of the roost without authorisation is confirmed. [52303/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing acquisitions agreed for each local authority for each year from 2021 to 2025 as part of their overall social housing targets in tabular form. [53154/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open an Irish consular office in Bangladesh. [52544/21]