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

Cian O'Callaghan: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on expanding postal votes in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33507/23]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of tenant-in-situ purchases that have been completed in each local authority since the scheme was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (11 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take action in a case (details supplied) where a registered fishing company has been refused storage at Howth Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33508/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 589. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will take action to ensure that a service provider (details supplied) has the required funding to accommodate people with disabilities in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will look at a specific case (details supplied) where a young person finishing school cannot get a placement for adult day services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33530/23]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 117: In page 45, to delete lines 38 and 39 and substitute the following: “(a) consult with the National Monuments Advisory Council and the Heritage Council to seek their views (if any) on the action, and (b) be guided by those views (if any) on taking the action or not.”. This Bill is not scheduled for Report Stage in the Dáil next week. Will the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the intention. The amendment is on the national monuments advisory council. We discussed this last week and earlier this week. The Minister of State has given us assurances that the Heritage Council will be given additional staffing. I have asked how many archaeologists and historians are employed by the Heritage Council. This is our third meeting so maybe at this point the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Great. With respect, there is a contradiction in what the Minister of State has been saying to us on this. He has been saying the Heritage Council will be given additional staffing and then he told us that its entire budgetary requirement in terms of staffing has been met, so on the one hand he is saying it may not need additional staffing while on the other he is saying that if it needs...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for that detailed answer. It is great that the Heritage Council has two archaeologists and one historian, but that illustrates the very point I was trying to make. This can be contrasted with the range of expertise there would be on a national monuments advisory council with a panel of ten or 15 experts with knowledge of different eras. Crucially, the expert...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I accept that many finds will not be preserved in situ. My concern is with the ones of high value and high significance that should be preserved in situbut are not. It is fine to say that something was an exception, but these are the very exceptions that should not have happened.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 153 In page 67, to delete lines 36 to 41 and substitute the following: “Relevant works which may affect environment in another Member State or Northern Ireland 38.(1) Where the Minister considers that the proposed relevant works that is the subject of an EIAR under this Chapter would be likely to have significant effects on the environment in another Member...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State gave a short explanation of amendment No. 171. It has caused much concern outside this room. Many people have read it and come up with different views on it. They are concerned about the effect of it and I and I am going to talk through some of those. Some have taken the view it is trying to prevent the capacity to take a judicial review in part on the grounds that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I request a written note on the questions I have put.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is no problem. It would be useful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 192: In page 90, to delete lines 17 to 21.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 193: In page 91, lines 24 and 25, to delete “in so far as may be practicable” and substitute “in so far as possible”. This is about the maintenance and presentation of national monuments. The wording in the Bill about the duty placed on the local authority in terms of the maintenance of national monuments is set at a low level. This is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 213: In page 101, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(2) The Minister, the Commissioners or a local authority, as appropriate, may enforce an easement where the easement relates to, or has the effect of, whether in whole or in part, providing access to a Registered Monument.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 214: In page 101, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(2) The Minister or the Commissioners may request the relevant local authority to initiate the process of establishing a public right of way to ensure public access to a monument of significant historic or archaeological interest. (3) A local authority which receives a request under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The amendments I have tabled are very similar. They relate to sections 184 to 186, inclusive, and are about a reasonable person. My first concern is with regard to what is reasonable person. What is the definition of a "reasonable person"? I may think the Minister of State is a reasonable person and he may not think I am a reasonable person. Who knows? This type of language seems very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will withdraw those amendments when we reach them, and reserve the right to resubmit them.