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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 1400. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that general practitioners providing services under HSE schemes such as the maternity and infant scheme, maintain appropriate insurance that allows them to provide home birth services to all women who opt for this form of delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turbary Rights (26 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 1910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the rights of the registered owners of fee simple bogs (details supplied). [20591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: An Bord Pleanála’s Workforce Plan for 2021-2022 was approved by my Department in October 2021. This Plan provided for an initial 8 additional staff for a new Marine/Climate Unit, which would include responsibility for processing offshore wind energy applications. I understand that the Board is currently preparing a Maritime Resource Plan to identify the additional staffing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (7 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: The Maritime Area Planning (MAP) Act 2021, enacted in December 2021, establishes a new plan-led marine planning system, which is underpinned by a statutory Marine Planning Policy Statement guided by the National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF), consisting of a new licensing and development management regime from the high water mark to the outer limit of the State’s continental shelf....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for her intervention. As a public representative in the area she should be front and centre in providing information and in any ongoing public consultation or advice that residents are looking for. I will raise what the Deputy has mentioned about his letter with the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. It is hard to get my head around it when I am reading it at pace but I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for her ongoing interest in pursuing the very important issue of water quality in Dublin Bay. In order to protect water quality in the bay, work is under way to upgrade and enhance Irish Water's management of the city's wastewater networks and treatment plants. In addition, the Dublin local authorities are collaborating on projects to improve the management of surface...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies for tabling this motion and the valuable contributions they have made in the process of doing so. As set out in A Programme for Government: Our Shared Future, the Government believes that everybody should have access to good-quality housing to purchase or rent at an affordable price, built to a high standard and located close to essential services, offering a high...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I congratulate our new Member, Senator Tom Clonan. I wish him the very best of luck as he takes his seat. It is a great achievement for him and his family. I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022. I thank Senators for facilitating the passage of this important substitute consent legislation through the House. The purpose of...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: They are all welcome.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank Senators for engaging in the debate. We will have my speech circulated. I understood that it had been but we will rectify that forthwith. I thank everyone for their contributions on the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 and for facilitating its swift passage through the House. As I mentioned in my opening speech, the purpose of the Bill is to amend the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a reduction in VAT on heat pumps and solar panels to encourage the investment by homeowners into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18644/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: According to the information made available to my Department in relation to Strategic Housing Developments (SHDs) there are currently 54 active judicial review cases against SHD decisions of An Bord Pleanála (the Board). The number of units in the related planning applications is approximately 16,000. The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future committed to not extending the SHD...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Project Ireland 2040 comprises the National Planning Framework (NPF) and the National Development Plan (NDP). One of the key outcomes of both of the NPF and NDP is the compact growth of cities and towns of all sizes, in order to meet sustainability goals and to create more attractive places in which people can live and work. The preferred approach is to focus on greater reuse of previously...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: In October 2021, my Department approved the 2021-2022 An Bord Pleanála (the Board) Workforce Plan which provides for an additional 24 posts across a range of technical and administrative grades including the setting up of a new Marine and Climate Unit to implement the role assigned to the Board under the Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 and associated projects under the Climate Action...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy commits to increasing the housing options...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: In September 2021, Minister O'Brien established a Working Group to progress the actions involving local authorities set out in the Government’s Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. Chaired by my Department, the Working Group comprises representatives of local authorities and the Departments of Children, Equality,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I have no plans at this time to commence section 212 of the Local Government Act 2001 which deals with the holding of public local inquiries. The establishment of public local inquiries is a legally complex matter, particularly with regard to how such inquiries would function in practice. Careful consideration would be needed regarding the powers of such inquiries to compel persons to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students on a course (details supplied) could be given an option to carry out a two-week Gaeltacht immersion session required for their course online or in the Gaeltacht considering the high number of Covid 19 cases at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18593/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parental leave (details supplied) given the increase in leave in July 2022 needs to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18621/22]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for her query on this very important project. I will raise it with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, as well to ensure it gets maximum attention in the Department. As the Senator pointed out, a decade is a long timescale for any project. However, we are assured the Part 8 portion will be ready midway through this year and the timescale for the completion of the...