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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: All local authorities acquire land on an ongoing basis for a wide range of uses, including housing developments. My Department provides funding to local authorities also on an ongoing basis where they use their land for social housing developments. Specific allocations of funding are not made to local authorities for land, rather each local authority makes its own decisions regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a procedure for a person (details supplied). [28202/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I genuinely appreciate the concerns put forward by Deputy Ellis. I will raise the awareness aspect of the current scheme with the Department, as well as the results coming from the study. If it is an issue of awareness, we will try to see how we can target that and make people aware of it. As I said, Irish Water is responsible for lead pipework in the public water distribution network....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Ellis for raising this very important matter. Following the publication of the national strategy to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water in June 2015, a new grant scheme was introduced in February 2016 to assist low-income households with the replacement of lead pipes and related fittings in their homes. The intention of the lead remediation grant scheme was to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputies for raising this matter which is important to their locality. The walks scheme, which is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development, contracts landowners to undertake maintenance work on national waymarked ways and other priority trails that traverse their lands. The landowners receive modest payments for maintenance work undertaken in line with agreed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I have heard the views of both Deputies. I will raise the matter with the Minister on foot of this debate. I understand from both Deputies the importance of the amenities in question and what they provide. I acknowledge the scale of trails and the number of landowners on the scheme in west Cork compared to other areas, as has been mentioned. As I mentioned earlier, an external review of...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions. The Government firmly believes that home ownership and more affordable rental is essential for our society. We have put delivery, affordability and the chance to own your own home at the heart of our housing policy. In not opposing this motion, the Government points towards our shared goal to deliver affordable housing and makes clear, as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: My Department issued Guidelines to Planning Authorities on Quarries and Ancillary Activities in April 2004, offering guidance on planning for the quarrying industry, both in the adoption of development plans and in determining individual applications for planning permission for quarrying and ancillary activities. The Guidelines recommend that practical ways of building good relationships...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Every year my Department requests a data return from local authorities on the implementation of the Act. This return includes information on, inter alia, the number of sites on the register at the beginning of the year, the number of sites entered onto, and removed from, the register during that year, and the number of sites on the register at the end of the year. However this data request...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: The outstanding levy amounts due on derelict sites by local authority at end 2019 is as set out in the table below. Local Authority Cumulative amount of levies outstanding at 31 December 2019 Carlow €103,183 Cavan €0 Clare €0 Cork County €50,850 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 3 of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) defines a derelict site as: '...any land...which detracts, or is likely to detract, to a material degree from the amenity, character or appearance of land in the neighbourhood of the land in question because of— (a) the existence on the land in question of structures which are in a ruinous, derelict or dangerous condition,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Under the vacant site levy provisions in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), planning authorities were empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of relevant properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers in 2018, which relevant owners were liable to pay in January 2019. The rate of the levy increased to 7% for sites...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Naval Service (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: The Maritime Area Planning Bill which it is intended to publish shortly envisages that a new agency, the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA), will undertake enforcement and compliance activities for such offshore development with powers analogous to terrestrial planning authorities. There are a number of public bodies, including the Naval Service, the Commissioners for Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: 493. To ask the Minister for Health when a lymphedema clinic running as a pilot programme in Ennis, County Clare will be extended to the CHO8 region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26776/21]

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I apologise to Members that I am a little disorganised with my folder as I go through the amendments. We are getting there. As we finish, the Bills Office is working to speed and scale. I thank all of the officials in the Department who are working with such a short timeframe. Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are Government amendments. These technical drafting amendments have been recommended by...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: No, it does not have any implications. It is just a circular drafting issue. The Office of the Attorney General deemed that it was unnecessary and was causing confusion to have section 11D in again. It was not making sense when one followed the circular through, so the decision was taken on the advice of the Office of the Attorney General.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: It is purely a question of the order in which the provisions apply. There is absolutely no change or diminution of the section. It is just circular, to make sure that the references make sense. You follow down through it in direct order - that is all it is.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: Amendments Nos. 4 and 6 are Government amendments. Amendment No. 5, as proposed by Senator Fitzpatrick, seeks to achieve the same end as amendment No. 4. Amendment No. 4 is a technical drafting amendment recommended by the Office of the Attorney General to ensure consistency with the other provisions relating to decision-making by the members of the planning authority, as set out in...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank most Members for their support for the amendment. Senator Higgins is incorrect in that it is consistent with the Planning and Development Act. Sections 9 and 11 deal with the extension of development plans currently. They have been extended by a number of local authorities by agreement of a majority of the members. We are not conflating it with variations or other such types of...