Results 5,801-5,820 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: ——the committee and the reality is that Deputy Gilmore prevented it.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Let us move to the issues. I am not confused but Deputy Gilmore is misleading the House. He is doing a disservice to democracy when he says one thing in the secrecy of the Whips committee and another thing in public here.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I will not allow that to happen. Let us deal with the issues. Deputy O'Dowd disagreed with my proposal to introduce planning applications for off-licences. I am amazed at his position on that. To return to the point made by Deputy Catherine Murphy, under the existing legislation, planning permission is required for one to open a chipper but it is not required for an off-licence. I do not know...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: In any town in the country one will get complaints about the proliferation of off-licences.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Deputy O'Dowd can try and shout me down but he will not get away with it.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: What is being done here is to give local authorities and local communities a right to have a say in where an off-licence is established.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Deputy O'Dowd is introducing yet another false trail.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: His party has been holding anti-social behaviour meetings around the country with varying levels of success. There was a very low turnout in one case but I will not embarrass him on that. Maybe the next time he is holding one of these he will explain to voters why he wants off-licences to be able to operate on an untrammelled basis here.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: It is a serious matter. There is a lacuna in the law and I have argued for many years that we should have planning permission and that is part of the intention of this regulation. Deputies Gilmore and Morgan raised the issue of hotplates in garages. The regulations do not refer to this matter. They were dealt with as far back as the 2001 regulations. On the issue of the single application...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Let me get to the points as they were made. Draft regulations were circulated. There was a great response, some of which were very detailed. We are working through that issue in the Department. I expect to be in a position to publish the new regulations later in the summer.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: At that stage, maybe we will have a logical debate on them in committee. I mentioned this in the Oireachtas committee the week before last, I will also publish draft and management guidelines relating to planning to ensure consistency in planning authorities. That I am bringing forward this legislation on peat extraction, demonstrates my willingness to meet the European Commission's concerns...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Do not come back at it now. Deputy Gilmore is caught out.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The Deputy has been caught out and has shown himself to be incapable yet again.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The reality is that we should have this type of discussion——

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: ——in an Oireachtas committee. Two of the parties in this House conspired to ensure it would not happen. Deputy Gilmore has made wild-eyed, delusionary assertions that, somehow or other, I managed to persuade Deputies Boyle and Stagg——

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: That is correct, one does not and one will not.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Members should keep to the truth and the facts. As I stated, this is not as Deputy Gilmore wishes.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: We have an illustration of how Deputy Gilmore will operate from now on, that is, by distorting the truth, telling the first fable that comes into his mind, being delusionary and denying the reality.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The reality is that after Deputy Boyle raised a question, he——

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: That does not arise.