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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (20 May 2021)

Peter Burke: 395. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department under the CLÁR scheme or another scheme supports the provision of infrastructure and footpaths in a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27143/21]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the members of the Regional Group for their motion and Deputies Canney, Fitzpatrick, Grealish and Berry for their opening contributions and the constructive nature of the motion. It is timely as we go about reviewing our national development plan. They have highlighted the pressure points that Irish Water, as a public utility, is facing. I welcome the views of other Deputies on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: Not for the first time, we are hearing incredibly contradictory contributions from a Sinn Féin Deputy. In the first instance, he criticises the Government allegedly taking powers away from local authorities, and in the second, he says we should instruct local authorities and take over their staffing matters-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: They have the funding. As I said, every local authority has €50,000 in place to support the vacant homes officer. It is a matter for the local authority to adjudicate on how staff are assigned. The Deputy seems to be suggesting otherwise, that we should try to take more powers away from local authorities, while at the same time absolutely contradicting that. The Department's role-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I cannot help but hear the contradictions the Deputy is expressing. He might allow me the forum to complete my contribution, as I allowed him to complete his without interruption, but he obviously does not have the manners to do that. The Department's role is to drive and co-ordinate actions in central government to support local authorities in their actions to tackle vacancy in local...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important matter. I welcome the opportunity to discuss the position of vacant homes officers in our local authorities. The national vacant housing reuse strategy was published by my Department in 2018 and since then my Department has provided funding to each local authority of €50,000 per annum. This funding is to support the work of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: Yes. It is en route.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: My apologies. It is on the way.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: In light of the impacts of the Covid-19 emergency, the Government, on 29 March 2020, made an Order under section 251A of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), which resulted in the extension of time for a range of specified or appropriate periods and timelines in the Planning Acts and associated planning regulations. Further orders were signed on 16 April 2020 and 9 May...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I have no specific function in relation to the matter raised and the information requested is not available in my Department. Local authorities are independent in the execution of their powers and the directly elected members are democratically accountable for all expenditure of the authority. The day to day running of each local authority is a matter for its Chief Executive while...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges the extensive range of measures included in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future, building on the initiatives already undertaken and in progress, which will be brought forward to support individuals and families to access affordable housing...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I apologise that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, cannot be present as he is currently at Cabinet. The Government is opposing the motion. The Government firmly believes that home ownership is good for individuals, good for families, good for communities and good for the State. With this in mind, we have put affordability and the chance to own a home at the very heart of our housing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Sales (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress on a multiagency enforcement programme on solid fuel use as a home heating source; if his attention has been drawn to imports of German coal to the Irish market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26131/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: The Seventh Schedule of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act) prescribes infrastructure developments for the purposes of sections 37A and 37B of the Act, for which planning applications in respect of projects referred to as Strategic Infrastructure Developments (SID) are made directly to An Bord Pleanala. Battery energy storage systems are not specifically listed as SID...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: An Organisational Review of An Bord Pleanála was undertaken by an independent expert panel and published in March 2016. An Implementation Group, comprising representation from the Department and An Bord Pleanála, was established to oversee the implementation of the Review recommendations. The Review contains 101 recommendations relating to legislative provisions,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: A planning application for residential development may be specifically described as ‘build-to-rent’ (BTR) development at the planning application stage. This is set out in Chapter 5.0 of the Apartment Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2020 and defines ‘build to rent’ development as:- “Purpose-built residential accommodation and associated amenities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank the committee for inviting me to discuss the general scheme of the local government (directly elected mayor executive functions in Limerick city & county) Bill, which was approved by Government on 20 April 2021. I am joined by Ms Mairead Ryan and Mr. Paris Beausang from the Department's franchise section and by Mr. Diarmuid O'Leary, Ms Áinle Ní Bhriain and Mr. Grant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: The briefing note states that the mayor will have a vote on all matters before the council, except in matters of oversight. In that context, head 12(2) states: "The mayor shall exercise a vote in relation to all matters that come before the elected council, except where the vote is in relation to the council's oversight role in respect of the mayor." That is not in the actual briefing note....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Mitchell for her engagement with the process. I acknowledge that she has been constructive, as have other members of her party. On the powers of councillors, I am very keen that they keep their reserved powers. This is why there is an essential tenet to robustly hold the mayor to account. This is going to be key in how this process works out on the ground. Councillors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Peter Burke: I apologise that I had forgotten to comment on that, my writing is not as good as it used to be. It will be the responsibility of the new mayor to present the development plan to local authority members. People must visualise that the current chief executive has the executive function of presenting the plan to the councillors. The councillors adjudicate on it, go through the process of...