Results 2,101-2,120 of 2,163 for speaker:John Cummins
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Second Stage (25 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister for bringing this important legislation before the House. He has been criticised in some quarters for expediting the Bill through the Seanad without pre-legislative scrutiny by the committee. As a member of that committee and as someone who was at the meeting referred to by Senator Warfield, it is disingenuous to try to twist the reality of how this Bill came before us....
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Second Stage (25 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I accept that the measures in this Bill are immediately required to enable the planning authorities to proceed with their development plans. In many cases, especially in local authorities like my own in Waterford, as well as those in Limerick and Tipperary, which are amalgamated, their development plans should have lapsed in 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. They have been extended beyond their...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Second Stage (25 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I will be brief. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee and giving their presentation. As has been described, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set the framework that will ultimately guide our policy over the coming decades in this critical area. It will be responsible for delivering our renewable energy into the future and meeting our very ambitious targets...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: Has that work commenced on the next batch of projects? When will we see sight of those projects? It is the follow-on projects specifically that I am interested in and the timelines for those.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: Thank you.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: My good colleague and friend, Senator Currie, said much of what I was going to say about Dublin Zoo. I will, however, reiterate what she said about Government support at a time we have given unprecedented support to organisations such as sporting bodies, and justifiably so, because of the financial stress they are under. An institution such as Dublin Zoo certainly warrants support from...
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (18 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I join my colleague in complimenting the Minister of State on his work in this area. I would like to acknowledge the work that has been done by the OPW in my county of Waterford in recent years. Thankfully, there has been tremendous investment in flood defences. More than €25 million has been spent to protect Waterford city and €1 million has been spent in Passage East....
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Urban Development (5 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, to the House and I wish him the very best in his role. On 9 July, I spoke on the Order of Business on the eve of a decision being made by Waterford City and County Council regarding planning permission for a transformative 125,000 sq. m mixed-use development on the north quays in Waterford city. The Minister of State is well aware of this...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Urban Development (5 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response, for recognising the importance of this project to Waterford and the south east and for acknowledging the work of our former colleague, Paudie Coffey, designating the site as a strategic development zone. The work of many people over the past number of years has brought this project to where it is now. I wish to record my thanks to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee to discuss this important topic. I respect their bona fides. As a politician of 11 years and a former member of Waterford City and County Council who has dealt with many housing projects, I share their goal that everybody should have secure and adequate housing. However, as a committee it is our job to interrogate that and to ask the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I am sorry to cut across Professor Whyte but I am running out of time. I refer specifically to the question of what the witnesses consider secure and adequate housing to be. I appreciate Ms Hennigan's comment that this is a matter for the Oireachtas but I am asking the witnesses their opinion on what constitutes secure and adequate housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I do not mind who-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I appreciate that. Perhaps Ms Keatinge or Mr. Stanley might be able to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I am just not hearing an answer to those specific questions on what the group's opinion on secure and adequate housing is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: Does Ms Keating appreciate that if this is inserted into the Constitution, we will be required to define that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)
John Cummins: I thank Ms Keatinge for her answer.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)
John Cummins: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him and his officials for the speed with which they have worked on this legislation, which is exceptionally important to protect people from evictions during this emergency period and any subsequent emergency periods that may arise. I am sure that, in his response to some Opposition Members, he will defend the Bill against some of the charges...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)
John Cummins: I thank Mr. Ó Coigligh and Ms Connolly. I will focus on the second paragraph of head 7 which reads "Two or more abstraction points drawing water from the same body of surface water or groundwater and which join to form a combined abstraction shall be considered to be a single abstraction". In responding to Senator Fitzpatrick, Mr. Ó Coigligh said that this would not affect the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)
John Cummins: Mr. Ó Coigligh suspects it will not affect abstractions at the lower level.