Results 3,581-3,600 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the national policy objective 3b with regard to the meaning of immediately adjoining suburban areas in each of the five cities. [44379/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will define all suburbs for each city for the purposes of national policy objective 8 in the draft version of the national planning framework. [44384/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the national smart growth initiative will be funded under the existing capital plan 2016 to 2021 and under the capital plan post-2022; the amount of funding that will be available under the initiative; and the planned purpose of the initiative. [44380/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in the event that the Houses of the Oireachtas do not vote in affirmation of the national planning framework as approved by the Government; and if there will be scope for amendments to the initial plan and-or future iterations by the Houses of the Oireachtas. [44381/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time he plans to give the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government to scrutinise the final draft of the national planning framework before submitting it to all Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas for a vote; and if members of the committee will have an opportunity to make amendments to...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are now taking into consideration benefits from the metro north when determining development levies; and if not, when he anticipates they will do this. [44383/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken reviews of the potential to broaden the applicability of compulsory purchase legislation in line with the national policy objective 12; the reason and the cases in which his Department is of the view the CPO legislation requires reform; the details of some of the issues with the CPO process...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected residential population to be developed in each of the SDZs in the country. [44386/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide estimates by local authority in terms of hectares and as a percentage of total development land, from State land management studies his Department has undertaken in preparation of the national planning framework of lands and development sites owned by the State either directly or indirectly and that is...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the inclusion of national policy objective 18b in the national planning framework in view of the concerns over the potential legality of local needs planning criteria for one-off housing; the legislative and policy impacts that will ensue if case law demonstrates that such local needs criteria are not compatible...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: We did not vote on the issue at all. The Deputy must have been on the wine.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: He is sipping his glass of wine watching "Oireachtas Report".
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: He is not adhering to his own rules on pay.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: That is why we never see him hanging around the bar here.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: Thanks for that clarification, at least.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: Where does the Deputy buy his wine?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: It takes years to ferment of course.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: It is included in the recommendations and the legislation.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: It is all included in the recommendations. There is duality. Fair is fair.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2017)
Barry Cowen: My apologies.