Results 3,021-3,040 of 11,114 for speaker:Damien English
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I am sorry. The Deputy asked for an example. If, in the future, we set national guidelines on solar farms and a local development plan does not respect the national guidelines, the regulator will step in and suggest they should be respected, that the local development plan should be changed and recommend a direction by the Minister. Today, that direction is carried out by the Minister and...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I will answer that.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I am happy to sit down with Deputy Collins. We pass each other in the corridor every day of the week. I cannot meet the group. I offered to do so previously-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: -----but the matter is now before the courts. I had offered to meet the group.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I have engaged with Deputies on this matter and had arranged to meet the group with them and with officials of my Department. I made that offer but could not fulfil it because the matter went before the courts.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: That is not the case.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I will be as quick as I can. Most of the questions are not related to the amendments being discussed so I will move on.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: It is important that we stop a message from going out that is not true.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I certainly cannot have everybody else going off in another direction either.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: It would not be true or fair and it would not affect the policy of anyone in here. To be clear, Project Ireland 2040 does not stop anybody from building a one-off house in the country. I cannot be clearer than that.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: It encourages proper development in all our towns and villages, and tries to encourage more people to live outside the pressure zones, and to live in the other regions, which one wants to see developed. We recognise that people need a choice. Some want to live in one-off houses. Some would like to live in a village or town. If planned and constructed properly, using Project Ireland 2040,...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: I would be very happy to discuss it with the Deputy and go through all of that. With regard to one-off housing, this legislation probably came a little late for the planning framework development for Project Ireland 2040. We tried to honour the spirit of the law. We discussed it in this House and at committees, including the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development and the Joint...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: These amendments address section 31AA and section 31AC of the Bill and will provide that the staff will be civil servants in the Civil Service of the State. Having examined the matter further since the Bill was initiated, it is clear that there are likely savings to be made through the use of shared services for areas such as payroll, human resources and IT, which can be accessed if the...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: This group will amend sections 10, 12, 13, 20, 38 and 31 of the principal Act, as well as amending sections 31AL, 31AM, 31AN, 31AP and 31AR in the Bill. These amendments are proposed to strengthen the provisions in the principal Act relating to the adoption and derogation of statutory plans, that is, local authority development plans and local area plans, as well as regional, spatial and...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: No.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: Transport.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: Does the Ceann Comhairle want me to bring some clarification to this?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: It is not.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: People have to get planning permission.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)
Damien English: They have to get planning permission.