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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1186: In page 692, line 32, to delete “groundwater abstraction” and substitute “ground water or surface water abstraction”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1190: In page 701, line 21, to delete “paragraph,” and substitute “paragraph”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1192: In page 708, line 12, to delete “paragraph,” and substitute “paragraph”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1193: In page 25, line 5, to delete “development;” and substitute the following: “development; to provide for proper planning and sustainable development in the interests of the common good;” These amendments relate to the Long Title of the Bill. Amendment No. 1193 amends the Long Title of the Bill to clarify that the purpose of the Bill...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1194: In page 25, line 6, to delete “repeal” and substitute “repeal and replace”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. First and foremost, I thank all the members of the committee. There has been detailed, useful and informative interaction through this very detailed Committee Stage. We have given more than due consideration to the amendments that have been tabled. I look forward to working with the committee on Report and Final Stages to pass this vital and urgent legislation that will update and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank our broadcast staff, in particular. I thank the planning team and my own team in the Department for the work they have done, and not just here in the committee room. They have responded to queries and have updated the administrative teams behind this team. They have done an incredible job. We are not there yet, but we are getting there. The Committee Stage of this Bill has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Interim Remediation Scheme is a demand-led scheme, and therefore a list of eligible properties is not maintained. My Department is currently, as a matter of priority, preparing legislation to put in place on a statutory basis, a remediation scheme for owners of certain apartments affected by fire safety, water ingress and structural defects. This legislation will establish supports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I can confirm that the delay in publication of the Marine Protected Areas Bill has arisen due to the legal and technical complexity associated with this ground breaking legislation. This has meant that drafting has taken longer than anticipated. However, my Department has been working in close collaboration with parliamentary drafters and our legal advisors to develop this Bill. Drafting is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Departments’ Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme (DPI Programme) provides funding to assist local authorities to resolve issues with DPI to enable the taking-in-charge of the housing estates. As regards the estates referred to in the question, my Department received an application for funding under the DPI Programme from Kerry...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: In December 2023, I announced the successful applications that are approved funding under the Waste Water Collection and Treatment needs for villages without access to Public Waste Water Services. Following the announcement, my Department wrote to Kerry County Council confirming approval of funding for the village of Beaufort and outlining the next steps required to commence and deliver the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Guidelines for Planning Authorities relating to Childcare Facilities, were issued in 2001 by my Department under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, to provide a framework to guide both local authorities and developers. Planning Authorities and An Bord Pleanála are required to have regard to the guidelines in carrying out their functions. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 795: In page 311, line 37, to delete “permission for retention” and substitute “retention permission”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is this section 169(g)?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I followed a lot of it.