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

Niall Collins: I will make the point that residential zoning provides for private, social, affordable and cost rental. It captures all.

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

Niall Collins: I do not think residential zoning prohibits any of that. The Deputy knows the process. If the local authority wants to develop affordable housing in a particular community or location, it will seek expressions of interest and will build accordingly.

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

Niall Collins: We will check the original Act for the Deputy now.

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

Niall Collins: Section 97(3) of the 2000 Act states: (3) A person may, before applying for permission in respect of a development— (a) consisting of the provision of 4 or fewer houses, or (b) for housing on land of 0.2 hectares or less, apply to the planning authority. It is the exact same wording.

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

Niall Collins: Yes.

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

Niall Collins: Amendment No. 1053 pertains to Part 13 and related Part 14 which deal with the appropriation and disposal of land, including through compulsory purchase. It has been decided not to amend Parts 13 and 14 until a review of the recently published report of the Law Reform Commission has been reviewed and considered. Therefore, I cannot accept this amendment at this time. We will consider the...

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

Niall Collins: It is the same as the disposal of any land. It must go through the process.

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

Niall Collins: Yes.

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

Niall Collins: I move amendment No. 908: In page 405, after line 39, to insert the following: “(12) A housing strategy within the meaning of Part V of the Act of 2000 included in a development plan under Part II of that Act and continued in force by virtue of section 66 shall, until the replacement of that development plan in accordance with Part 3, constitute the housing strategy of the planning...

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

Niall Collins: No.

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

Niall Collins: I ask the Cathaoirleach to repeat that.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: Amendments Nos. 7 to 10, inclusive, 18, 45 and 46 relate to the United Nations sustainable development goals, which only run up to 2030. This means that amendments would be required on a rolling basis. The principles underlying the sustainable development goals are already captured in the definitions and impact considerations. Environmental and sustainability impacts are to be considered...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank both Senators. In terms of parity of esteem, this intention is woven throughout the Bill in the existing definitions, objectives and functions. Parity of esteem needs to be realised and this is not achieved by simply inserting the words, as was discussed during the pre-legislative scrutiny process. It has been a principle of consideration at every stage of the drafting process and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional funding for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (24 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: The Youthreach programme is a national programme of full-time education and training for early school leavers. It provides integrated education, training, and work experience for unemployed early school leavers generally between 16 and 20 years of age and is delivered in two settings, Youthreach Centres and Community Training Centres. The 2015 Youthreach Operator Guidelines provide for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (24 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: The Youthreach Employee Wellbeing Report 2022: A review of employees experience of working in the Youthreach Sector was published by Maynooth University in January 2023. Based on a survey of 325 staff, or some 33% of the sector, it found significant challenges facing frontline Youthreach sector staff and workplace stress but nonetheless found higher levels of wellbeing by comparison to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assimilation of primary school caretakers similar to school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18607/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if medication can be secured for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18621/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: The Youthreach programme is a national full-time programme for unemployed early school leavers generally between 16 and 20 years of age and is delivered in two settings, Youthreach Centres and Community Training Centres. The Youthreach year is 225 days, with learners being required to attend for 208 days. Individual learner plans are developed for each Youthreach learner. While the precise...