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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 42 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (‘the 2000 Act’) presently provides that an applicant may seek a single period of extension of duration of an existing planning permission, for an additional period as determined by the planning authority to a maximum of five years, except in the circumstances of subsection (1A) of section 42 of the 2000 Act. Subsection...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: The funding system that applies to local authorities is a complex one, as authorities derive their income from a variety of local sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services, local variation of Local Property Tax (LPT) and funding from Central Government. Central Government funding of local authorities similarly presents a complex picture, with transfers,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: 882. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines for front-line healthcare workers who are currently pregnant and carrying out their roles in hospitals; if they are being rostered to areas in which there is a reduced exposure to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: 929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for calf welfare projects under the calf welfare scheme and TAMS; the specific topics covered for funding; the closing dates for these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: 957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a son or daughter taking over a family farm is not treated like a new entrant to the sheep welfare scheme given they are using the same herd number as previously held by a parent; if the rule will be reviewed based on the fact that the child may never have owned, bought or sold sheep under this herd number and their...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: Regarding the limited circumstances of horticultural peat and the mushroom industry, planning is facilitated in the Department. We are hoping, further to discussion with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to make it exempt from planning and that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, would regulate it under the Environmental Protection Agency Act. There is an issue with legislating for...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The Department is currently embarking on a review of sustainable rural housing. The previous one was carried out in 2005. When one looks at the annual report of the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, in the majority of counties the approval rating for planning permission for one-off houses is almost 90%. We carried out an analysis of County Limerick, where there were significant...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: We are working through the submissions that came in from the public consultation on the wind energy guidelines. We are working with the Department of the Minister, Deputy Ryan. There were more than 500 submissions. Some of them were very technical in nature. It was aimed to have a draft before Christmas. That was not possible, but we are still working through it and I hope it will be...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The essential role played by local authorities in our lives has never been more evident than during the Covid-19 crisis. They have provided real local leadership across the country and have helped communities to work together in these exceptional and difficult times. They have maintained virtually all of their services, even during lockdowns, and have played key roles in supporting local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78, 102 and 117 together. In order to continue supporting businesses and other ratepayers, and in recognition of the ongoing impacts of COVID 19 and the associated public health restrictions, the Government recently announced that a commercial rates waiver will be applied in the first quarter of 2021 to businesses most seriously affected by ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The provisions and procedures in relation to the taking in charge of housing estates and residential developments by local authorities are provided for in section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. Decisions in relation to the taking in charge of individual developments is a matter for consideration by the local authority concerned on a case-by-case basis having regard...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The National Taking-in-Charge Initiative (NTICI) was a once-off fund launched in April 2016, to trial new approaches and working methods in supporting the taking-in-charge process of housing estates. Under the terms of the NTICI, developments that were subject to valid taking-in-charge applications, were eligible for inclusion in the associated call for funding proposals. Ultimately,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: In light of the initial impacts of the Covid-19 emergency last year, an Order was made by Government on 29 March 2020, under section 251A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), which ultimately resulted in the extension of all planning timelines for a period of eight weeks to 23 May 2020. As a result of the Spring 2020 emergency order, an additional period of eight weeks...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The merger of Galway City Council and Galway County Council to create a single administrative area was recommended unanimously by the Galway Expert Advisory Group in April 2018. This recommendation was endorsed by a Government Decision in June 2018 and provisions to give effect to this policy decision were included in the Local Government Bill 2018. Those provisions passed all stages in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: Section 6(1) of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) outlines the ways in which notices relating to derelict sites can be served by local authorities on a person under the Act. These are: (a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to him; (b) by leaving it at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: The preparation of a statutory city or county development plan is a central function of a planning authority undertaken in accordance with Sections 9-13 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended). The zoning of land for particular uses, including for new housing, is specified in this legislation to be a reserved function of the elected members of the planning authority. This task...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 108, 109 and 113 together. Under the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission. Section 4 of the Act and Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), set out various exemptions...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Issues (28 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS 2020 payment for persons (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4799/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (27 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the help-to-buy scheme beyond December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (27 Jan 2021)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 296 and 361 together. Under planning legislation, enforcement is a matter for the relevant planning authority, which can take action if a development does not have the required permission, or where the terms of a permission have not been met. There are extensive enforcement provisions provided for in Part VIII of the Planning and Development Act...