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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I genuinely hear the Deputy. I am not arguing. I think that our amendment No. 129 reflects that. There is a misunderstanding that if it is prescribed in legislation that a person must be a member of an organisation or body, that will guarantee the correct expertise and skill set. I do not think that is the case. There could be a valuable contribution from somebody from the Marine...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 132: In page 46, to delete lines 23 to 37, and in page 47, to delete lines 1 to 8 and substitute the following: “(b) The Minister shall— (i)for the purposes of appointing a member who falls within subsection (1)(b) (i), (ii) or (iii), so appoint a nominee put forward by the Minister of the Government for the Department concerned where the Minister...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 133: In page 48, lines 9 and 10, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 9 down to and including line 10. I am withdrawing this amendment in the context of the corporate governance review that we have undertaken on foot of the contributions of members during the debate on Second Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 134: In page 48, lines 25 and 26, to delete “the day-to-day running of the MARA and”. This amendment more precisely defines the role of the board in respect of governance and oversight and the delegation of its functions. The text as initiated might have been misconstrued so as to mean that the MARA governance board is a case level decision-making...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I might accept that the local authority structure is not the best example, but it shows that those with the requisite technical expertise are adjudicating on the development management process. I refer to those who are trained to do so. I am not aware that members of local authorities make observations on routine planning applications that go before the local authorities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I was not aware of that provision because I recently had a letter from a councillor seeking that ability.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The Minister is statutorily barred from having any say in respect of adjudicating on applications that will be dealt with through this new regime. Taking the board of the EPA as an example, where the CEO and the team grant licences, board oversight is very different in respect of getting to the stage of adjudication where the expertise is required to make determinations and to make those...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: We are not seeking to put them back in here.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: What I am hearing from members is a suggestion that the board of MARA will have some role in adjudicating on applications. It will not. This is the key point. The board is a structure to hold the entity to account and to ensure that the CEO is undertaking his duties properly, etc. Regarding consent for individual applications, however, the board has no role in that context. That is the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: It could be the EPA then.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The board has no role in terms of my verification of cases.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely not, no. That is best practice to use the phrase put forward by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The functions and oversight of the board are clearly set out in section 45. The board has no role in cases or making a determination on specific licence applications. The board cannot because it would defeat the purpose of having a clear corporate governance structure to hold an entity to account.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 135: In page 49, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall remove from office a member of the Board (M) if such removal is necessary in order to ensure that section 43(2)(c)* continues to be complied with.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the members for their contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The data requested in relation to amounts levied and levies outstanding is outlined in the table below. My Department does not collect data on the market value of sites on the Derelict Sites Registers of local authorities. Each local authority can be contacted for this information. The deadline for 2020 data returns to my Department was October 15, 2021 - to date all local authorities, with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Council meetings are an integral and critical part of local democracy through which elected councils carry out statutory reserved functions and provide policy direction and oversight to local authorities. Arrangements for Council meetings are a matter for elected members who must ensure, in accordance with the relevant legislation, the effective discharge of Council business, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 23 of the Local Government Act 2001 empowers the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to divide a local authority area into local electoral areas and to amend those areas. However, in advance of deciding to make an order under section 23 of the Act, the Minister must, in accordance Part V of the Local Government Act 1991 (as amended), request a boundary committee to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (2 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)4 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the participation of citizens in local public life recommends steps and measures that impact on a range of government departments. With regard to measures falling to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, my Department is fully focused on the measures outlined in the Programme for Government...