Results 381-400 of 4,810 for speaker:Malcolm Noonan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Not all local authorities have them. We think good conservation advice is beneficial, as is having a network of architectural conservation officers across the country. They all meet different challenges. If the wrong intervention is made on an historic building or heritage building, it can have pretty devastating consequences for its fabric.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: This is a most welcome scheme. By the end of 2022, the figures we had were the following: more than 900 notifications had been received, which could result in some 2,000 new homes being provided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: As I recall, Senator Cummins raised with me in the Seanad quite a while back the matter of the grant for conservation advice for traditional farmhouses. I am pleased to say that this scheme has now been extended to fund conservation advice for the refurbishment of vacant traditional houses in villages and towns as well. Again, this is a welcome addition. That conservation advice is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is a worthwhile proposal. Through using the vacant homes officer in the local authorities, perhaps it could be given consideration on a pilot basis. I spoke earlier about having the different disciplines under the one roof in local authorities which would give them the opportunity to help those who purchase a property, are identifying a property or own a property to navigate through what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes, absolutely. If you look around our smaller regional towns in particular, where you have 19th century buildings on main streets, the back burgage plots on those have immense potential for regeneration using modern methods of construction onto the backfill of a site. There is still huge untapped potential in our town centres that we are not realising so I think something like this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Absolutely.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 234: In page 74, line 36, after “including” to insert “integration of the National Biodiversity Action Plan and”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 236: In page 74, line 38, before “the” where it firstly occurs to insert “as appropriate,”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 240: In page 75, line 20, to delete “land use” and substitute “land-use”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 242: In page 76, line 3, to delete “was justified” and substitute “is justified”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 244: In page 76, line 31, to delete “must” and substitute “shall”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 247: In page 78, line 7, before “an” to insert “without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a),”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will address amendments Nos. 248 to 250, inclusive, 253 and 254 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. These amendments relate to the interaction of the RSES with Gaeltacht matters, such as notification of relevant Irish-language bodies. As I have discussed previously, following Committee Stage and reflective of Government's support for the Irish language and the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: In the time I have left, I will try to sum up in response to the points and queries raised by Deputies. In case I do not get time, again, I thank Deputy Matthews and all the committee members for the incredible work they have done. I sat in on quite a few of the sessions. The output of work from the Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage over the past four and a half years...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: This goes back to a point raised by Deputy Ó Broin as well. In the past few weeks, the recast of the energy performance building directive has taken place at EU level. This was not done by the Green Party; it is happening at a high level in the EU. Deputy Ó Broin is correct with regard to modern methods of construction and the changes to procurement policy that need to take...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I apologise.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 230: In page 73, lines 30 and 31, to delete “the preparation of, the making of and the revision of” and substitute “the preparation, making and revision of”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 232: In page 74, lines 25 and 26, to delete “reflects national policy objectives and” and substitute “is consistent with national policies and measures, including those prepared pursuant to the , which”.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy.