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Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that while several thousand abstract between 10 cu. m and 25 cu. m, these represent between 1.5% of the total water abstracted in Ireland. Regarding abstraction covered by the legislation, we are very clear that 99%-----

Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: Could I stop for ten minutes?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (16 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department’s Foreshore Unit operates the consenting regime under the Foreshore Act 1933, managing the regulation of a range of different marine activities and infrastructural developments. The Foreshore Act 1933, as amended, requires that a lease or licence must be obtained for any activity on State-owned foreshore, which represents the greater part of the foreshore. The Act...

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

Peter Burke: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of...

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

Peter Burke: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (17 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: Local Authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) in their functional areas. The derelict sites returns are collected in Q2 of the following year. The information requested in respect of 2021 is provided in the Table below. Figures for 2022 are not yet available. My Department continues...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Energy Prices (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: 252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which a club (details supplied) can apply for assistance with its excessive energy bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56571/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects including noise, setback distance, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. Guidance on the noise aspect is currently being finalised by my Department in conjunction with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 and 265 together. The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. My Department ceased the practice of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: Further to the reply to Question 328 of 25 October 2022, I can advise that the Section 31 Ministerial Direction issued on the Cork County Development Plan 2022-2028 has been published by my office and the Office of the Planning Regulator in relation to this Plan. This material can be accessed at: www.opr.ie/recommendations-made-by-the-opr-to-the-minister/. I will arrange for my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Amenity Areas (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: Provisions in relation to the making of special amenity areas are set out in section 202 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the 2000 Act). Under these provisions, a planning authority may make an order declaring a specified area to be an area of special amenity, for reasons of its outstanding beauty or its special recreational value, and having regard to any benefits for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: Concerning the publication of records of protected structures, Part IV of the Planning and Development Act 2000 gives primary responsibility to local authorities to identify and protect architectural heritage by including particular structures on their respective Records of Protected Structures (RPS). Inclusion on the RPS places a duty of care on the owners and occupiers of protected...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 294 and 295 together. I wish to explain at the outset that my role as Minister in relation to the planning system is primarily, to provide a policy and legislative framework under which the planning authorities, An Bord Pleanála (the Board) and the Office of the Planning Regulator (the OPR) perform their statutory planning functions. The legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: The information requested is provided in the table below. Local Authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in their functional areas. The derelict sites returns are collected in Q2 of the following year. The most recent data available in relation to the Vacant Sites Register is based on returns...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department has introduced a number of significant measures to incentivise the increased use of vacant housing stock. These initiatives include the Repair and Leasing Scheme and the Buy and Renew Scheme, as well as the introduction of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2018, which came into operation on 8 February 2018 providing for an exemption from the requirement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (23 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding. The Housing Act provides that housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: I will take that matter. The review is finalised-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: -----and will be published before the end of the year. The key issue is to ensure the increase in funding penetrates in order that we have additional work carried out for all our citizens. The grant to which the Deputy refers is a key support to ensure independent living. We hope to publish the review before the end of the year.