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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 651 improves ease of reading of the sentence by inserting "that the public are entitled' in place of 'the public are entitled". Again, it is a correction. Amendments Nos. 654 and 655 substitute "UDZ or SDZ scheme" for "any planning scheme under Part IX of the Act of 2000" simply for completeness.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. Amendment No. 659 to section 96 clarifies the resolution of members referenced means "passed by not less than three-quarters of the total number of the members of the planning authority". This is the case already but provides clarity to the reader of this section without him or her having to refer to elsewhere in the Bill. Amendment No. 662 deletes section 96(6), which contains a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is in the group, but it is a more substantive one. There are a few other very minor amendments. Amendment No. 708 clarifies for certainty that section 122(1)(b)(ii) refers to both the national maritime framework or the relevant maritime spatial plan. Amendment No. 717 corrects the positioning of apostrophes when referencing the CRU. Amendment No. 755 does the same with reference...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy O'Callaghan will want to come back on one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have only a few more to outline. Amendment No. 912 reorders the definitions outlined in Part 7 (Housing Supply) into alphabetical order. That is all it does. It does not change any of the definitions at all. Amendment No. 964 seeks to replace the word "issued" with "brought" for clarity. Similarly, amendments Nos. 272 and 273 improve the syntax of sections 270 and 271 without...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I meant to say that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will check that but I imagine everything is guided by legal advice and it is in line with what is required in the SEA directive.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The selection of polling stations at electoral events is a matter for returning officers. At the 2020 general election there was one inaccessible polling station in the constituency of Clare. Where it is not possible to acquire premises for polling stations that are or can be made accessible to wheelchair users, returning officers must give public notice of these premises. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Funding (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: All EU funding made available to my Department in 2024 has been allocated to the appropriate Subhead in my Department's Vote. My Department does not have any EU funding available which has not yet been allocated. Details of the EU funding received in my Department are set out in Appendix 2 to the Revised Estimates for Public Service (REV) which is available at the following link....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Applications for social housing support are assessed by local authorities in accordance with the eligibility and need criteria set down in section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, as amended. As social housing support is intended to address a household’s long-term housing need it is expected that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: As set out in the Programme for Government “Our Shared Future”, the Government is committed to continue investment in our rural communities and to support proportionate growth of rural towns and villages to help attract people to live in these locations. My Department continues to invest in water and wastewater infrastructure to support the development of those rural towns...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local level, including investment in drinking water treatment plants and distribution networks. Under Section 7 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013, my Department has no operational function in this matter. However, it may be helpful to note that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: With regard to the exemption for local authorities from the 'Part 8' own development approval process to provide housing on designated State lands. The duration of section 179A of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act) is set in primary legislation under section 179A(1)(g) of the Act and any amendments to this requires a Bill to pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the Question refers to housing estates relying on Developer Provided Infrastructure (DPI) for their water services. Funding is provided by my Department under the Multi-Annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme to progressively resolve issues with DPI across the country. Funding of €68.5 million has been allocated, under the National...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Feb 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 (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I refer to the reply to Question No. 343 on 20 February 2024 which sets out the position in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Building Regulations set out minimum standards for the design and construction of buildings and works to ensure the health and safety of people in and around such buildings. In general, the Building Regulations apply to the construction of new buildings and to extensions and material alterations to buildings. In addition, certain parts of the Regulations apply to existing buildings where...