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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students on a course (details supplied) could be given an option to carry out a two-week Gaeltacht immersion session required for their course online or in the Gaeltacht considering the high number of Covid 19 cases at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18593/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parental leave (details supplied) given the increase in leave in July 2022 needs to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an application for a driver licence transfer will be processed for a person (details supplied). [18078/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Under the Housing for All strategy, the Government plans to increase the supply of housing to an average of 33,000 per year over the next decade. Under Housing Policy Objective 1.10, of the “Supporting Homeownership and Increasing Affordability” pillar of “Housing for All”, the Government committed to introducing a form of ‘owner-occupier...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: The primary purpose of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) is to capture a portion of the increase in land value resulting from the granting of planning permission for residential development. Part V allows local authorities purchase a percentage of land at less than the enhanced market value, with such land used thereafter to deliver social and affordable housing. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: The Report to which the Question refers is that of the Committee on the Price of Building Landpresented to the Minister for Local Government in 1973. The Report considered what measures could be undertaken to ensure that a substantial portion of the increase in land value attributable to the decisions of public authorities, could be secured for the benefit of the community. A commitment was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future committed to not extending the Strategic Housing Development (SHD) arrangements beyond their legislative expiry date of end December 2021, which was subsequently extended to 25 February 2022 arising from the Covid-related extension of statutory timelines within the planning system by eight weeks in respect of the period March to May 2020 due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Action 15.2 of Housing for All requires the introduction of a new tax to activate vacant land for residential purposes (to replace the current Vacant Site Levy) by Q4 2021. The Residential Zoned Land Tax was introduced by the Minister for Finance in the Finance Act 2021. The purpose of the proposed measure is to incentivise the activation of land which is zoned and serviced for residential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Town Centre First, jointly developed by my Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development, sets out 33 actions which will provide a co-ordinated framework across established national policy objectives (in particular the National Planning Framework, Housing for All and Our Rural Future), to address the decline in the health of our towns and sets out actions to regenerate and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: 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. Exemptions from the requirement to obtain planning permission in respect of specific forms of development are provided for, when they are considered to be consistent with proper planning and sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Housing for All commits to a range of measures to address vacancy and maximise the use of existing housing stock such as plans to introduce a new programme for the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) of vacant properties to ensure their use for residential purposes. Such a new programme for CPO of vacant properties is expected to support a broader programme of affordable housing in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 to 328, inclusive, together. The annual salary of the Chief Executive in each local authority is detailed in the table below. Local Authority Category Chief Executive Remuneration @ 1 February 2022 Dublin City 1 €204,443 Category Cork County ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I have no plans at this time to commence section 212 of the Local Government Act 2001 which deals with the holding of public local inquiries. The establishment of public local inquiries is a legally complex matter, particularly with regard to how such inquiries would function in practice. Careful consideration would be needed regarding the powers of such inquiries to compel persons to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: In accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended), the Local Government Audit Service conducts a yearly audit of the annual financial statements of each local authority. Once presented to the members of the local authority, the audit reports are published on my Department's website, as is the Annual Overview of the Work of the Local Government Audit Service....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects including noise, setback, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. Guidance on the noise aspect is currently being finalised by my Department in conjunction with the Department of Environment, Climate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: The role of the Disability Friendly Housing Technical Adviser is to provide technical expertise on housing for disabled people primarily to the local authority and Approved Housing Bodies supporting the delivery of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 at the local level. Disability Friendly Housing Technical Advisers have been nominated in each local authority as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Local authority Housing and Disability Steering Groups (HDSGs) are required under Housing for All to submit a quarterly report on their strategic plans for the housing for disabled people to the Chief Executive and the Strategic Policy Committee. This requirement will also be incorporated into the Implementation Plan for the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People (NHSDP) 2022-2027...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department sought and received sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to roll out a pilot Caravan Loan Scheme to improve access to traditional Traveller-specific accommodation options for Traveller families. My Department commenced the pilot scheme in July 2021 for a trial period of 6 months, following consultation with stakeholders including the local authorities,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: My Department met with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on 3 November 2021 to explore the feasibility of an all island approach to the provision of a network of Transient Sites. While the shared membership between the National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive will assist close cooperation to facilitate continuing exploration, as a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 358 and 394 together. Housing for All sets out a number of objectives with the aim of improving the functioning of the planning system including the comprehensive review and consolidation of planning legislation. The Planning Legislation Review forms one of the actions in Housing for All and is set in the context of the broad policy outlined therein, and...