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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I will move on to the infrastructure fund, which is note A9 on page 18. The estimated provision is for €50 million and only €1.6 million has been spent. I know Mr. McCarthy said it takes time. It is stated that it refers to alleviating critical infrastructure blockages and to accelerate the delivery of housing in key areas. Mr. McCarthy had estimated €50 million,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: The easiest thing would be for Mr. McCarthy to send us a note. He can send it to the secretariat.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Finally, I come to page 22 of the appropriation accounts. Under the heading, the Office of the Planning Regulator, there is an estimated figure of €450,000 but nothing happened. What is the purpose of that regulator and is the office up and running?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: So nothing happened in 2018 either.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Is that in the coming weeks?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Has the regulator's name been made public?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Right, okay. I did not know that. For people who are watching the Committee of Public Accounts - people do watch because we always get messages afterwards - could Mr. McCarthy explain to them the difference between this regulator and An Bord Pleanála? The public will not know the difference so perhaps Mr. McCarthy could tell us what the difference is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Has this role been carried out to some extent in-house in the Department up to now in terms of giving advice to the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Up to now it has all been done in the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I am from Laois which is one of the first counties to have a ministerial order for our plan when the then Minister of State, Mr. Dick Roche, was in office. I am more than familiar with the process. Some of the names Mr. McCarthy just mentioned would have discussed the issue with the Minister. A formal structure is being put in place. Up to now the Department was doing it. A previous...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: It may have just taken time to develop the legislation. The situation has improved. My final question relates to planning policy. The estimated spend was approximately €500,000 and there is quite a bit of underspend. That was mainly due to the fact that anticipated expenditure to carry out the strategic environmental assessment of the wind energy development guidelines was not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Is there another round of consultation after this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy take me through the process, because I have heard this every year for the past four years, and the Ministers have been saying that every year for the past four years also. Where are we on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That is correct. How long was the delay?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: I have a parliamentary question specifically on the issue in my office.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That will go through a consultation process for a couple of months and then it will be reconsidered.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Does Mr. McCarthy hope to have the guidelines issued, subject to approval by mid-year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Could Mr. McCarthy send us a note on that because there are many people in various communities watching the proceedings and one of their main concerns about the guidelines not coming through is that the old policy, which was drafted a long time ago, is now the basis on which local authorities have to make a decision. When were the existing guidelines introduced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy will understand the reason for concern. In 2006 a big wind turbine was 30 m high, now they are 186 m high. They bear zero relationship to turbines that have been going through the planning process in respect to the guidelines that local authorities are obliged to use. Somebody in the Department has not been fair to either the communities or the local authorities, expecting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Seán Fleming: That is a new issue I had not heard about previously. Is that in connection with noise?