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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authorities have furnished the details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their registers; the number of actions and fines issued under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 for each respective local authority; the changes he will make based on this information; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of vacant homes officers currently in place in each local authority; the number of local authorities that have applied for funding for additional vacant homes officers to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32296/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of affordable housing developments currently in the planning process or under construction, broken down by local authority, funding stream, and stage in the planning/construction process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Community Care (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will take action to ensure that CHO 9 is getting the day-only and overnight respite sessions it urgently needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32362/23]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 59: In page 33, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Circumstances in which owner of land is given notice 9.(1) All landowners with a recognised Registered Monument on their lands shall be personally notified of its presence, type, significance, and attendant legal protection. (2) All relevant landowners would be legally obliged to notify and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 64: In page 35, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(h) The environment in which the relevant monument or monuments, or relevant thing or things is/are situated shall be recognised as an Archaeological Reserve as identified and defined in Articles (2)(i) and (ii), and Article 4(i) of the Valletta Convention 1992.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh for bringing forward this very good amendment. The Minister of State said he will not go further than the pre-legislative scrutiny report on this. That is entirely reasonable. Recommendation 3 of the pre-legislative scrutiny report states that the National Monuments Advisory Council, as constituted in the original legislation, be re-established and that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Recommendation 3 refers to it as constituted in the original legislation. I am just saying that if the Minister of State is going to use our pre-legislative scrutiny report to justify his position, he needs to quote it accurately.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sorry. I will not come in again. However, I want to comment on that. It is great that the Minister of State is giving us assurances that the Heritage Council is going to get more resources. However, he is not even able to tell us what resources it has at the moment. How many historians and archaeologists are employed by the Heritage Council? That is a fair question. We are talking...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 79 is about battlefields that have historic value in another state. If accepted, it would require the Minister in such cases, of which there is just a select number, to send a description of any proposed works and any available information on the possible effects on the environment of the battlefield to the state or jurisdiction in question. An example is the battlefield at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: An excellent amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am not clear as to why he does not want to accept my amendment. I have put forward a very strong case as to why, in limited circumstances and in particular significant historic battlefield sites like the site of the Battle of Aughrim, this would be very good practice given it is of great historic and cultural value not just to us but to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not good rationale not to do something that is good practice because it might be difficult to decide what to include in it. I am hearing consistently during this discussion that there are difficulties with where lines can be drawn and therefore let us not do it. However, we should be trying to do the best we possibly can in a realistic fashion to value and preserve our archaeology and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I can withdraw if the Minister of State will look at it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 79: In page 38, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(a) (i) The site of a historic battlefield shall be a prescribed monument within a defined and designated area. (ii) Of particular relevance are the select number of battlefields of historic value in another state. The Minister, in such cases, should send a description of any proposed works and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 90: In page 40, to delete lines 32 to 35 and substitute the following: “(5) Where the Minister is minded to take a Register action which, if taken, will cause a registered monument to cease to be a registered monument, he or she shall do so— (a) in the interests of archaeology, (b) in the interests of health and safety, (c) having laid the proposal...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. In regard to the approximately 20,000 licences, how much has been preserved in situ from those excavations? Has any of it become part of, say, Ireland's Ancient East or anything else that is promoted publicly? Turning to my amendment No. 90, I acknowledge the Minister of State does not agree with me on the need for a national monuments...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That would be helpful as if the legislation simply states "having regard to", a particular Minister might be minded not to have regard to and go off.