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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are no emissions. It was based on the fact that there are emissions from the gas vent, but there are also no emissions from the regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Burke not talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: At the moment, Gas Networks Ireland is talking about replacing existing gas vent stacks, not about providing new regulating stations. Could Mr. Burke indicate if that is correct? Is that the intention now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: When Gas Networks Ireland goes to a local authority, does it require a minimum distance from residential dwellings? The existing regulating stations are already in place and the existing stacks are also in situ but is Gas Networks Ireland required to apply to local authorities for the provision of new facilities? Is anything set down in the requirements on distance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the regulating station cause any emissions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the interaction of Gas Networks Ireland with local residents if it proposes a new regulating station?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a fair comment. We will take the matter under advisement. I am substituting for the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, today because he had to attend another event. We take the point. The officials will go back and look at it and come back to the committee again. It is not being done on the basis that it is not required internationally or that, technically, there are no emissions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister and I will look at the matter in tandem with the officials. We will take it under advisement. We will come back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We welcome the engagement. The committee has raised a very important point. We will go back and discuss it and revert to the committee on the outstanding issue. We very much take it on board. That is why we welcome these engagements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does that relate to radar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the Chair could hold on a moment. I want to be careful. We would like the radar regulation to be referred by the committee now to the Houses of the Oireachtas but on the second regulation we have agreed to take under advisement the points raised by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan into consideration and to revert back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back with a revised proposal to the committee on the gas regulation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We want to decouple the two today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are a number of other exemptions, so we will obviously revert to the committee. The radar regulation has been referred but we will come back with a revised proposal on the second one.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the Deputy's 30 seconds.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: I just received the proposal and the review that was carried out by the officials in the Department. I am considering it very carefully, along with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. We intend to make a decision on that pretty quickly. As the Deputy will appreciate, it is something we are giving huge priority to. The housing adaptation grants for 2023 have just been announced. It is something...
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are you talking about yourself?
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----but I would hate for it to be put out that counsellors in respect of zoning decisions and politicians here in the Dáil and Seanad are not doing their jobs in the proper way. We are bringing in the residential zoned land tax, the legislation for which is in, and the land sharing tax. We are conscious of the impact the residential zoned land tax is having on active farmers. We want...
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Deputy talking about the help-to-buy scheme?