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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: The financial oversight of Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) is currently conducted through the Voluntary Regulation Code (VRC), Building for the Future: A Voluntary Regulation Code for Approved Housing Bodies in Ireland (2013), and the 2015 Financial Reporting Standard. All the larger, Tier 3 AHBs comply with the Code and the financial standard, which is overseen by the Interim...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: As the Deputy is aware, in December 2017 the Central Statistics Office (CSO) made a decision that 14 of the 16 largest Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) examined (i.e. those with 300+ homes in their property portfolios) in the initial phase of the review should be re-classified as falling within the public sector, under the broad local government classification. This decision was sent to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 637 to 639, inclusive, together. Of the 17 applications to harvest seaweed on hands, 13 are from named companies. There are 3 licences in place, details of which, including any monitoring arrangements, can be found at the following links:

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: My Department, as the Competent Authority, is required to undertake an Appropriate Assessment (AA) Screening in order to determine whether proposed works require a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) under the EU Habitats Directive.  The AA Screening Report for the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Test Site (FS006566) can be viewed on my Department's website under the Determination subfolder by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: In order to determine whether proposed works are of a class that would require a mandatory Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive, my Department, as the Competent Authority, is required to undertake an EIA Screening. The EIA Screening Report for the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site (FS006566) can be viewed on my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Renewable Energy Incentives (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 669 and 670 together. The Second Schedule to the Building Regulations 1997 to 2017 (which are made under the Building Control Act 1990, as amended) set out the minimum legal requirements applicable to the construction of all new buildings, extensions to existing buildings, as well as for material alterations and certain material changes of use to existing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: The aim of the Building Regulations is to provide for the safety and welfare of people in and about buildings. The Building Regulations apply to the design and construction of a building or to an extension or material alteration of a building. The minimum performance requirements that a building must achieve are set out in the Second Schedule to the Building Regulations. These requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Response (8 Mar 2018)

Damien English: My Department is the Lead Government Department for coordinating the response to severe weather emergencies. On foot of weather forecasts from Met Éireann indicating that an episode of severe cold weather with potential for snowfall was likely to impact the country, my Department’s National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management decided to convene a National Emergency...

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: It has changed.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: And vice versa.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: There is an offer on the table.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: The invitation is there to meet.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: On a point of order, that cannot be left unanswered. The reason I am talking to my colleague is that I am not allowed to reply at the end of the debate. I am asking the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, to give my answer at the end. I am not allowed to do that. Those are the rules and, therefore, to make sure that the questions raised by the Deputies are answered, I am briefing the...

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I would be happy to do it.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I issued an open invitation-----

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: No, that is not the case. Please do not make it up.

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: The main source of raw material for companies comes from the seaweed harvested by traditional harvesters while the main income derived by traditional harvesters from selling seaweed comes from companies. They are linked together and it is a question of how we bring that relationship forward and develop it so everyone gains but, more importantly, so the communities gain and so we can create...

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “notes that:— seaweed, as a natural resource, has been used in Ireland for hundreds of years and is closely linked with all counties along the western seaboard and particularly in Gaeltacht areas; — the main type of seaweed harvested along the western...

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Damien English: A delegation visited from Austria recently.

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Damien English: I thought I had more time.