Results 6,021-6,040 of 26,666 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: To answer the Deputy's second question, it is exactly that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Part 7 of the Bill relates to housing strategy and supply, and we have not got to it yet.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, and then they would be listed in the regulations. That was something I reflected upon post the previous amendments, and I see a rationale there. We have got to see how we would work it through but, effectively, the same applies here in this instance.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not the case.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: For 365 days a year?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects of the Guidelines including noise, setback distance, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. My Department, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC)...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: My Department supports fire authorities by establishing policy, setting national standards for fire safety and fire service provision, providing a central training programme, issuing guidance on operational and other related matters and providing capital funding for priority infrastructural projects and the procurement of essential frontline fire appliances, ancillary vehicles and equipment....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not have a direct involvement in executive functions such as the procurement of contracts for the maintenance of public lighting, carried out by a local authority. Under Section 149 of the Local Government Act 2001, the Chief Executive of a local authority is responsible for the executive functions of the local authority, and for that purpose to manage and control...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I was informed that Westmeath County Council has recently been subject to a third-party payment fraud in the amount of approximately €515,000. I understand that as soon as the Council became aware of the matter it took all appropriate measures, including engaging with its insurer and specialist advisers. The issue is under investigation by An Garda Síochána and the Council...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: On 7 December 2022 the Government approved the publication of the General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill (STTL Bill) and the priority drafting of the Bill which provides for the establishment of a new registration system for short-term lettings to be operated by Fáilte Ireland in line with the commitment under Housing for All - A New Housing Plan for...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Exit packages are not something which have been paid to serving civil servants in my Department from 2016 to date. Any staff member who retired from my Department during this period received pensions and lump sum payments in line with the terms and conditions of the pensions schemes of which they were members.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (6 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I announced the opening of the Interim Remediation Scheme (Scheme) on 11 December 2023 for the funding of emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. The Scheme is being administered on my behalf by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis and is open to applications from Apartment Owner Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (5 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 377 and 378 together. Since 2013, Exchequer funding has been provided through my Department's Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) to support local authorities with the retrofit of local authority owned homes requiring insulation and energy upgrade works. Over the period 2013 to the end of 2023, local authorities received over €308 million in...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (5 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive, Directive 2011/92/EU as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU, specifies projects which, by virtue of their nature, size or location are likely to have significant effects on the environment and should be subject to EIA. The Directive requires projects listed in Annex I of the Directive to be subject to mandatory EIA and provides that Member...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (5 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive, 2001/42/EC, is a process for the formal, systematic evaluation of the likely significant environmental effects of implementing a plan or programme, before a decision is made to adopt the plan or programme. The SEA Directive aims to provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to contribute to the integration of...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: While the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on 25 January that Ireland had failed to fully implement the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC), it is important to note that the Court’s findings refer to the historical position in September 2020. Considerable progress has been made since then to the water supplies concerned in this case. The ruling is in relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The primary role of my Department in electoral matters is to provide an appropriate policy and legislative framework for a modern and efficient electoral system. Within that framework, local Returning Officers are responsible for all matters in connection with the actual conduct of elections and referendums. This includes, in accordance with section 94 of the Electoral Act 1992, the provision...