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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: It is based on the professional opinion of the professional who is employed by the developer, builder, owner or whoever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: It is taken as a fact of compliance with the planning permission, in so far as a local authority is concerned. I am asking whether the Department regards it as a matter of fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Even despite the fact it is an opinion? The Department has a role with regard to building regulations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: On which the Department never cried foul.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Are the proposals to enhance or strengthen the Act sufficient to ensure this situation does not arise again? Mr. O'Connor said this provision was only to accommodate the legal profession and not necessarily the health and safety regulations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: There would be very many - the majority of whom are upstanding - whose opinion proved to be completely correct. However, I am nervous that regulations laid down by the Department were being used by the legal profession in order to fast-track the conveyancing of property. Mr. O'Connor has said that will be addressed in this proposal and we await the result. I refer to the local authority...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: The unit remains seriously under-resourced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: It remains seriously under-resourced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: I know the system because I was a councillor for many years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: If a planning regulator was established would it assume responsibility for overseeing all of it? Is that a reputable means of addressing the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: I am referring to the enforcement of planning and the enforcement of regulations and the conditions of permission which relate primarily to health and safety.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Is that planning permission?
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Considering the absence of the appointment of a planning regulator in the document produced by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government earlier this week, despite the recommendation of the Mahon tribunal in this regard, is this an abandoned policy on the part of the Government as distinct from what was proposed in the programme for Government? When we can we expect...
- Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: I welcome all home owners affected by the presence of pyrite in their homes. They have taken time off work to be here in Leinster House alongside their families to listen to these statements, including those of the Minister. The statements allow Members an opportunity to further question the Minister on his most recent announcement and to seek to clarify issues for those affected. Buying...
- Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: I hope the time will be used to respond to suggestions forthcoming from this side of the House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on providing individual local authorities powers to set property tax rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46303/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Minister has initiated the discussion by virtue of what he had to say last week and what is within the local government action plan, Putting People First, relating to local property taxes. This is against the backdrop of the Thornhill report. The Minister commissioned the expertise of Mr. Thornhill to make recommendations to him. The Minister has had the report since last May or June;...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Minister can remind me all he wishes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Will the Minister answer a specific question? When did the Minister get the Thornhill report? Has he read it? When will he share it with anyone in his party or the Government? Will it take a meeting of half an hour before 5 December to decide on it? Is that why Thornhill put the report on the Minister's desk? Is it envisaged that there will be a wide-ranging debate involving more of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2012)
Barry Cowen: Can the Minister answer the question? Is what he proposes here augmenting the property tax?