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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and when they will receive an appointment. [13877/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: 1023. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists that are assigned to the Mater Hospital, Dublin; the number recommended given the catchment area; his plans to increase this number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14720/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), set out various exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission. Any such...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Section 44 outlines the grounds for complaint under the Bill regarding a registered member to the registration body. We must oppose amendments Nos. 36 and 37 to section 44, which seek to provide that failure to comply with building regulations and planning permissions are grounds for complaint. These amendments are outside the scope of the Bill because this register is a register of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I again thank the members for their contributions. We take any breaches of the Building Control Act and the planning Acts very seriously. Some of the examples mentioned have caused heartbreak for people, which is the last thing we want to see happen. It is part of a broader response. Section 44 sets out the grounds for complaint and competence is referred to in section 44(1)(d). Section...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I take the view that they can still trade. If it has been proven, through this board, that they had a serious breach in terms of their competence, they can be permanently removed from the register. I referenced whereby competence, in the first instance, involves someone having to display compliance with all the criteria, one of which is the Building Control Act. That is a strong...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: In the first instance, it is clear that under section 28 the building control regulations and the code of practice are key criteria of competence in bringing a complaint forward to the board to adjudicate on. If the other State agencies are doing what they are prescribed to do, in the first instance, if the building control authority finds someone at fault and that he or she did not comply...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I am not saying that; I am saying that the building control authority in the first instance would have had to have made a determination on the case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Yes, subject to it being brought to the building control authority because it has to adjudicate on compliance with the building regulations. That is the key point I want to get through. The same is so if it is under the Planning Acts. Obviously, they have to adjudicate on that. They would have to make their determination on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: It has to go to the building control authority first. They are charged with making a determination under the building control regulations.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: Absolutely. For clarification, it has to go to the building control authority first.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I will not comment on a specific case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I set out the process fairly well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I do not want to comment on a specific case because I have not the information for it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I hear the Deputy's point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Peter Burke: I will address amendment Nos. 38 and 39, as jointly tabled by Deputies Ó Broin and Gould. I must oppose these amendments. They seek to replace the requirement that the registrar is satisfied that a complaint is not made in good faith or is frivolous, vexatious or without substance or foundation, with a requirement that the registrar demonstrates this. These substitutions are deemed...