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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Do buildings that are currently being built under current regulations now need to be reviewed to make sure that they can be adapted appropriately? Is it the case that any building that is under construction should be immediately looked at to put in the adaptations required?

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

Colm Burke: I very much support what the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, set out. It is important to realise that the reason for the housing challenge in this country is that the number of people working here has increased by over 400,000 since 2011. The housing market does not respond immediately to demand. From the time of identifying a site to putting in planning and going through the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way room rental income is treated for those with a serious condition or disability when assessing a disability allowance application in circumstances in which the rent collected is entirely for the purposes of meeting mortgage payments and keeping a person’s home; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (18 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the initiatives her Department will take in order to assist young persons in returning to the workforce following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26128/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for their presentations. I would like check the statistics in relation to the strategic housing planning permissions that were granted. In respect of the decisions made on planning permission applications, permission was granted in 68 cases. Under those 68 decisions, permissions were granted for over 16,000 residential units and over 5,000 student bed spaces. Does the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: It is the board that grants the planning permission. I know that the commencement notice has to be served on the local authority. Is there any process whereby the commencement notice is also being served on An Bord Pleanála?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: On the issue of appeals from local authorities, the annual report states that in 2019, 29,117 decisions were made by local authorities, of which 2,076 were appealed to An Bord Pleanála, equating to a percentage of 5.6%. My figures differ from that because 5.6%, which is 2,076 appeals, would add up to 36,000 applications to local authorities. I am not sure how the 5.6% figure was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: The figures are higher for those local authority areas compared to others and there are other substantial local authority areas like Cork, Waterford and Limerick. To reduce the workload of An Bord Pleanála, should it not be identified why its workload has increased because of decisions taken by these four local authorities, in particular?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Walsh have figures on the percentage of decisions that have been appealed where An Bord Pleanála has upheld the appeal, in other words, has ruled that the appeal was valid? Is there a breakdown of those figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Is there a higher success rate on appeals for those four areas compared to other local authority areas?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: My question is on appeals from local authorities, of which there are quite a substantial number, and decisions made by An Bord Pleanála. How many of them have ended up with court applications for judicial review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: No, I am speaking about appeals that came in as a result of decisions made by the local authority on which An Bord Pleanála then made a decision one way or the other, which subsequently ended up in judicial review.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Yes. I have the number of appeals received from local authorities, which is more than 2,000. An Bord Pleanála then made a decision one way or the other. What I want to know is how many of these decisions ended up being judicially reviewed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Mr. Walsh might give me a note on it. How many strategic housing cases that ended up in judicial review with decisions made by the High Court have been appealed to the Court of Appeal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: No, if it was a High Court decision, the appeal would be made to the Court of Appeal. I want to know the number of judicial reviews in the High Court, on which decisions were made, that subsequently ended up in the Court of Appeal.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: Could I also get figures as to the numbers currently awaiting decisions from the High Court and the Court of Appeal?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the role of the Defence Forces in combatting Covid-19 was a topic that was discussed at the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council which met in defence Ministers’ configuration in Brussels on 6 May 2021; if so, the outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress of refurbishment works in Collins Barracks, Cork, in line with the Defence Forces Built Infrastructure Programme 2020-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken by her Department to incentivise persons to pursue a career in special educational needs and measures being taken to retain current staff in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2021)

Colm Burke: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special educational needs teachers in 2021 in Cork city and county; the number of additional special educational needs class places in Cork city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25085/21]