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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Damien English: Deputy Casey also asked about the national investment plan and whether the decision on that would be aspirational or detailed. It will be both. However, the final decision will be for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform so the Deputy can bring his evidence based arguments to them. It will all be evidence-based decision making. The idea of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Damien English: The ports are there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Damien English: We recognised the importance of that and gave it a chapter of its own, chapter 6. The Senator has read it and I welcome that. I encourage the members to read it and if they wish to add to it they can in the weeks ahead. I agree that there is major potential in the marine. There are particular strategies for that as well. In addition, people need to know that we invest a great deal of...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I think LIHAF has got quicker.

Water Services Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I move:That the Water Services Bill 2017 be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased, on behalf of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather Humphreys, to introduce the National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017. The National Archives is one of the State’s most important cultural institutions and plays an essential part in the cultural life of the country by collecting, managing...

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I thank Deputies for their contributions and for their support for the Bill. I have listened with interest to the input of Deputies on all sides of the House. The various issues raised will be considered further by the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys's Department as the Bill makes its way through the Houses. Issues of relevant costs are being dealt with and have been looked at by the...

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I am sorry to disappoint the Deputy.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I thank Deputy Mick Wallace for raising the issue of housing and the question of State land. He might not realise it but we are actually on the same page on much of this. People seem to keep missing that. Himself and many others who are not in government keep mentioning this magic target of 10,000 social houses annually. We agree on this and have set aside the money that will get us to...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: We have not.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: Do they?

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: That is where we are going. Which bit does the Deputy not understand?

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: It is not.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: To be very clear to the House, what I have outlined here is State land, that the State owns and that we will use to deliver social and affordable housing as well as allowing for private housing in order that we get a combination of houses and provide housing for all the different needs of people, be they key workers, people on the social housing waiting list or others. That is how we will...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: NAMA has a duty to the debtors, with which it works, to try to maximise the return to those debtors, because most of those guys have debts that they owe and they have to be paid back. We work with NAMA on key sites and we will use NAMA's skills, but there is a difference in the State-owned lands I am speaking about and those which the Deputy claims are State-owned lands. NAMA has a duty to...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: If the Deputy takes the time to read the plan, he would see there is a commitment of €6 billion for social housing.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: Under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2014, primary responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Building Regulations, including Part B (Fire Safety), rests with the owners, designers and builders of buildings. Enforcement of the Building Regulations is a matter for the 31 local building control authorities who have extensive powers of inspection and enforcement under the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Oct 2017)

Damien English: I thank Senator Ó Clochartaigh for raising this matter. I apologise that the line Minister cannot be present to deal with it. The community sector high-level forum was reconvened in 2015 by the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, to examine certain issues pertaining to the community employment sector, having regard to the consequences for costs and...