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Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: Do not forget to mention the Taoiseach in Sligo.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I wish——

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: Now we are getting to the jargon and the clichés.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: Rubbish. Dream on.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: Is that with immediate effect?

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: What is new in that?

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Members on the other side of the House are not listening.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House. I hope that, before he leaves it, despite his earlier address, he might clearly indicate how he sees the guidelines making a difference. Regarding what Senator Brennan said, I was a member of Galway County Council until very recently. On a cross-party basis, we had to engage a consultant to provide global professional guidance to us, at our own expense, to...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: The important thing is that we succeed in bringing about change now by allowing people to build in rural Ireland. Will the Minister clarify the documentation published last weekend by his Department which stated: "However, the Minister is requesting planning authorities in each county and An Bord Pleanála to take the guidelines on board and put in place the measures necessary to implement...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: No, that is not the answer that I want. The Department document states that the guidelines are to be implemented with immediate effect. It is on page 2, paragraph 3, in the last line.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister can make that statement later, but not in my time. I would believe him had we not had the experience of the Taoiseach saying in Sligo that it was a major issue. Before the General Council of County Councils made the decision requesting that the Minister delay publication, a Minister and Minister of State in County Galway — Deputies Ó Cuív and Fahey — were vying with each...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: If the Minister does not want to hear it, that is his problem, but that is the reality of what we must endure regarding the planning situation in our local authority in County Galway and the pressure that has been brought to bear. I was present at a meeting with the manager, the Minister and Minister of State and the members of the local authority, as well as Oireachtas Members, when they...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I ask for the Chair's protection.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: On the issue of planning in County Galway and elsewhere, will the Minister indicate whether any guidelines which are to be implemented will take immediate effect? We are sick and tired of equivocation on the matter.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: I have read it twice and will read it for the third time. In his address the Minister says that he will postpone implementation of the guidelines until 30 April, after consultation.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: On the statutory planning order, the Minister states, "comments are to be submitted to my Department by 30 April and I will carefully consider any suggestions for improving the guidelines before they are finalised". Are they finalised or not?

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: Are they to be implemented now? The Minister cannot have it both ways. If we are to have improved possibilities for people in rural Ireland to live in areas where they have connections, it is important for the people to have ownership of the planning process and that ownership is not on a political basis as has been adopted by some people. The Minister has taken on this issue as if it...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: We had too much of that ownership in Fianna Fáil and the result is inquiry after inquiry. The Minister knows this and is part of the situation. How can he extricate himself? He now has the opportunity to do something better but he still wants to own the planning process.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: The Minister still wants to own the planning process. Unless people make representations to a Fianna Fáil Minister, Deputy, Senator, local representative or whatever, they will not get planning permission. That is the mentality and culture that exists. Let the Minister bring about change on this issue.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Ulick Burke: It is the reality, the truth and the reason we have such costly inquiries associated with abuse in the area of planning.