Results 8,061-8,080 of 11,114 for speaker:Damien English

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (3 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Traveller-specific projects and developments are focused on group housing schemes and halting sites. This includes meeting Traveller-specific housing needs through a range of mechanisms, including the provision of mobiles and caravans; the provision and refurbishment of halting sites and bays within sites; the refurbishment and extension of existing group housing; the return to use of void...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (3 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 558 and 566 together. Project Ireland 2040, published in February 2018, signals a significant policy shift towards securing more compact and sustainable urban and rural development, which requires significantly more effective land management in key development areas. Against that background, it is proposed to establish a National Regeneration and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Jul 2018)

Damien English: The Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, makes provision under section 172 that an applicant for consent to carry out proposed development subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) must prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for submission to the planning authority, or the Board as the case may be, in accordance with permission regulations made by the Minister in...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Is the Deputy looking for a job?

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I did not get a chance to listen to all of the speeches but I will go back over them. Some of the speeches are linked to housing as well as finance. We have to recognise that the Bill is a combination of measures to address housing difficulty and to help those involved in construction, especially small-scale builders who are getting back into business and having difficulty accessing...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: This Bill has been a few years going through this House. I thank everybody for giving of their time tonight, and probably tomorrow and later next week, to deal with this Bill. I am pleased we are here discussing the amendments to this Bill, which was initiated in this House in January 2016. It predated my time in this Department. Everybody in the House is familiar with the purpose and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Amendment No. 1 relates to section 1, which contains the standard provisions relating to the Short Title, the collective citation and the construction and commencement of the Act. Given that the Bill was initiated in early 2016 with the expectation that it would progress more quickly than it has, the standard collective citation requires updating and it is also necessary to indicate that...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take amendments Nos. 4, 61, 77 and 79 together. This group of four amendments arose from amendments originally proposed by Fianna Fáil during deliberations on the Bill in the Dáil, which should not be accepted as drafted, but to which I was open. Following the examination of the wording of the Fianna Fáil amendments it was agreed that the planning regulator...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: No.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Transport.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: Does the Ceann Comhairle want me to bring some clarification to this?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: It is not.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: People have to get planning permission.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: They have to get planning permission.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I will be as quick as I can. Most of the questions are not related to the amendments being discussed so I will move on.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: It is important that we stop a message from going out that is not true.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: I certainly cannot have everybody else going off in another direction either.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: It would not be true or fair and it would not affect the policy of anyone in here. To be clear, Project Ireland 2040 does not stop anybody from building a one-off house in the country. I cannot be clearer than that.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Damien English: It encourages proper development in all our towns and villages, and tries to encourage more people to live outside the pressure zones, and to live in the other regions, which one wants to see developed. We recognise that people need a choice. Some want to live in one-off houses. Some would like to live in a village or town. If planned and constructed properly, using Project Ireland 2040,...