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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 649. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to repurpose disused and vacant HSE-owned buildings for community facilities or other uses; if his attention has been drawn to the high number of these properties in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 650. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposal from some local authorities to take up long-term leases on vacant and disused HSE-owned buildings, with a view to repurposing these buildings for community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22660/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 681. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new home care tender 2023; the reason for any delays to date; how they are being expedited; if he is committed to engaging with those operating in the home care sector on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22905/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Summer Economic Statement (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a report on the wellbeing framework will be included with the summer economic statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21433/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Today we will meet in two sessions to consider the Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations, dealing with bus poles, bus stops, gas infrastructure, street furniture, reverse vending machines and temporary weather radar systems. We are joined by the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Noonan, and his officials, who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I will go now to Members, the first of whom is Senator Fitzpatrick. We will address all three regulations in one go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will take the next slot. First on the reverse vending machines and the proposed class 42A. Part 1 of Schedule 2 states "No such structure shall be attached to the front wall of the building or erected forward of the front building line". I suspect that is so that you cannot put machines out where it would impede a footpath. However, if someone has a shop with sufficient forecourt and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: If someone wished to put it on the front of a premises.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: The external finishes of the reverse vending machine would also come into that too. That is something that will have to be considered in the planning. What kind of external finish does the Department envisage? Is it timber sheeting around them? W

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: So for clarity, if someone had a terrace of shopfronts, the only option available to the operator of one of those shops would be to place the machine inside or to seek planning permission to place it forward of the shopfront, provided it does not impede the footpath?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: So there is scope for a receptacle and then the machine would be on the other side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: On bus stop poles, I think there is some technical guidance on where you place a bollard or a pole or structure on a footpath so that the vehicle sweep does not catch it. Often there might be a narrow footpath and they are placed in it so that it is narrows the path again. Is there any guidance on the erection of bus poles so that they are off the back side of the footpath or is there a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Put it at the back of the footpath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is great. I thank Mr. Creegan. I move on now to the tables and chairs fees. Is this just an extension of what we passed in 2020 and 2021, or are there any other changes to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay, that is grand. It was acceptable to us then, and it is acceptable now. I thank the Minister of State, and I move now to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan. Does Deputy Ó Broin wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will add to the points made by Deputy Ó Broin. In regard to the circular to the local authorities about guidance on this, it would be very helpful if they were asked to issue guidance to those businesses owners where they know these tables and chairs licences are in place just to remind them. It has been in place for two years and sometimes clutter can become normalised just because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with the Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Order in draft: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2023. Under Standing Order 100(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee. In...