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Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I will comment briefly on a few points. I hope our dealings in the context of the Maritime Area Planning Act demonstrate that I have listened to the Opposition. We took a series of amendments from the Opposition, withdrew some amendments and came back on Report Stage with further amendments in consultation with the Opposition. I firmly put that on the record. We have listened today in...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collective citation, construction, and commencement 1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Planning and Development, Maritime and Valuation (Amendment) Act 2022. (2) The Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 and Part 2may be cited together as the...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: -----but they are putting forward no solutions. At least they are consistent in one thing: object, object, object.

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward this Bill. However, the Government will be opposing it. Aside from its technical and practical operational shortcomings, it would in all likelihood quickly face significant risk of legal challenge and is likely to have a severely detrimental effect on the supply of much-needed rental property. The Government is acutely aware that rents are very...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Does that include those from the Opposition?

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I was not laughing. The Opposition is laughing.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: The Opposition is laughing.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Amendment No. 25 is being withdrawn.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2022, that: (a) Standing Order 233(2) is modified to provide that the Committee has the power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the existing subject matter of the Bill, in relation to: (i) the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2020 to enable the Commissioner of Valuation to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: It should be there. We can organise that immediately.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: We can wait until we get it.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I apologise; my office is working on it and the speech will be here as quickly as possible. I will continue. The purpose of the amendments to the Valuation Acts, 2001 to 2020, is to enable the Commissioner of Valuation to defer the roll-out of the national revaluation programme due to the unprecedented impact on the economy and the commercial property...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), planning authorities were empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of relevant properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers in 2018, which relevant owners were liable to pay in January 2019. The rate of the levy increased to 7% for sites listed on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Under section 50 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), any person who considers that they have reason to question the validity of a decision made by a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála under the Act may apply to the High Court seeking a judicial review of that decision or act. It is a matter for the Courts to decide whether to grant leave for judicial...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank everyone who has contributed to the debate while I was here. As already indicated by my colleague Deputy Darragh O’Brien, the Minister, much is being done by the Government to address housing supply and homelessness. I assure the Deputies in the House of the work done to date. The Government is committed, through Housing for All, to over 200 actions designed to tackle...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, must have been hard on Deputy O'Donoghue this morning, was he?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2023 (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: The closure of power plants in Offaly and Longford will have a negative impact on the commercial rates income of Offaly and Longford County Councils, an impact which has been fully recognised by my Department. To alleviate this negative impact, my Department provided Offaly County Council with €1.7m in 2021 and 2022 while Longford County Council have received €1.3m in each year....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Collection (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation pursuant to the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority, as are the costs of collection. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: Addressing vacancy and dereliction, and maximising the use of the existing housing stock, is a priority objective of the Government, as evidenced by the recently published Housing for All - A New Housing Plan for Ireland where one of the four pathways in the plan is specifically dedicated to this area. My Department continues to liaise with local authorities on the implementation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 412 together. In January 2022, my Department communicated with local authorities outlining that it is increasing the funding made available since 2018 from €50,000 to €60,000 per annum from mid-2022 to support the work of a Vacant Homes Office including a vacant homes officer to support the commitment in Housing for All to ensure that...