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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is a reasonable request and something I will certainly take back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is something we would be very supportive of as a Department.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Reviews (11 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Derelict Sites Act 1990 imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. The Act also imposes a duty on local authorities to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have been busy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I appreciate the sentiments of Deputies Canney and O'Sullivan, on which I will make several points. It is a firm priority for the Government that people can continue to live in rural areas where they were reared. Deputy Canney asked that people be allowed to build and live in rural areas. We want this. Croí Cónaithe is a nationwide scheme. We want people to restore old houses...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: To respond to Deputy Canney, we want to address the inconsistencies, apart from the underlying principle that we want people to continue to be able to live in rural areas. The guidelines will be key to this. In the planning legislation we are bringing forward we are looking at ministerial statements. There is an inconsistency in the way local authorities interpret. We want to make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Gearagh, as the Deputy mentioned, is a privately owned site and has not been considered for national park status. My Department does not own or manage any part of this special area of conservation, SAC, which is owned largely by the ESB. A management plan scoping exercise was undertaken by ESB International on behalf of the ESB in 2016 and 2017. The National Parks and Wildlife Service,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy has made constructive comments. As he is aware, the NPWS is engaging with the ESB on the monitoring of the site. There have been positive findings in scientific surveys. I undertake to ask the NPWS to engage with the ESB in order to address the particular issues the Deputy has raised, which are very reasonable requests, on the basis that the electricity output from this site is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: By way of a structured approach, as I have said, the NPWS is engaging with the ESB and there were positive findings from the scientific surveys. To move the matter forward, we have asked the NPWS to continue to engage with the ESB. Maybe we could set up a meeting between the Deputy and the assistant secretary in the Department with responsibility for heritage to see what can be done in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 29 together. I thank Deputies Canney and Christopher O'Sullivan for bringing up this important matter. Updated rural planning guidelines are being prepared to expand on the high-level spatial planning policy of the national planning framework, NPF, in particular national policy objective, NPO, 19. The objective makes a clear distinction between rural...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I absolutely concur. We see on the ground, even in my role as a Deputy in Limerick city, the impact and benefit it has. I want to acknowledge that there is a significant body of work under way by our officials in the Department. I acknowledge the work of the officials in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform as well. At this moment in time, it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am well aware this is a matter the Deputy has raised consistently. I wish to advise her that I have received a report from the chair of the Galway task force covering social housing and related issues over the period of 2021 to 2022. Once I and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, have completed a review in consultation with officials, we will arrange for a copy of the report to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I cannot answer that. I will certainly clarify that point. On the Galway issue, the Deputy brought this up recently in the House and asked for the report to be published. We have gotten a report, which we have just received, as the Deputy will appreciate. She will appreciate that we need to give it proper due consideration. We have just received it. We are going to go through it in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: When the Deputy brought this up previously, I undertook that we would get the report. We have a report now. We have a working document. It is not fair to say what the Deputy has said. Social housing delivery has taken place in Galway. We would obviously like to see a lot more but it is not as if there has not been any. In 2021, Galway city delivered 129 houses and Galway county...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Canney for raising this matter. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities to support the suite of housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability, which support older and disabled people living in private houses to adapt their home to meet their needs. I agree with Deputy Canney that the scheme is hugely beneficial. The total...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: To give reassurance, we are looking at all grants, including housing adaptation for older people, the mobility aids grant and the disabled persons grants. The review looked in the round at both income thresholds and the level of grants. They are all included in the review and the submissions made to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Part V mechanism is intended to achieve integrated development and reduce housing segregation by facilitating a mix of a tenure types - social, affordable and cost rental housing. The Ministerial Guidelines on Part V issued to local authorities under section 28 of the 2000 Act, emphasise the need for consultation with developers regarding the delivery of appropriately located properties...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Supporting home ownership is a key objective of Housing for All, under which the Local Authority Home Loan was established and which launched on 4 January 2022 with annual funding of €250 million. This is a Government backed mortgage for those who cannot get sufficient funding from commercial banks to purchase or build a home. The Loan can provide up to 90% of the value of a property...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Government policy in relation to housing for older people, as set out in Housing for All: A New Housing Plan for Ireland, is to support people to live with dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible, to allow them to ‘age in place’ close to their families, friends and in their community. Pathway 2 of Housing for All commits to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: In accordance with Section 10(2) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, planning authorities are required to include objectives in their development plans for the provision of infrastructure including water supplies and waste water services. In practice such objectives are informed by consultation with Uisce Éireann as part of the development plan preparation process. Uisce...