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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, I cannot but I would imagine there could be other bodies that would come on. That is what I am saying. To answer the Deputy's question, I am actually----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I thought the Deputy had finished it because it was quite concise.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Go ahead.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I did. The appropriate place for this is in the regulations. Is there any case or circumstance in which they are not consulted as part of the NPF? They are consulted. If a new body enters that field - and we discussed this same principle when we were discussing Gaeltacht planning - there will be the ability to designate that entity in regulation. I do not think it is the appropriate-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I refer to listing them in the regulation. That is what I am saying.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I know. It refers to "prescribed bodies".
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it does. I have already answered this. I stated that I think we need to allow flexibility as to who is consulted at various times, depending on the type and format of the consultation that takes place. I am not in favour of including "prescribed bodies". I know the Deputy is not asking that the prescribed bodies be listed in the Bill. This is very well covered already in this...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputies propose the inclusion of "prescribed bodies" here. If we were to take that amendment and put that term in the list, one could argue that it means the "prescribed bodies", as they stand today or on the day-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, the regulations are the best place for this.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It makes eminent sense.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, they would be included in the regulations, which is the right place for this.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: People should look at how this is detailed in the Bill as published. To say that would exclude anyone from a consultation is incorrect.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is the substance-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I answered that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----of what the Deputy is saying and that is not the case, as everyone knows.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (27 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Customers may complain to Uisce Éireann through their complaints process in a number of ways, which are outlined and available to the public on their website. Please see link (Make a Complaint | Contact | Uisce Éireann (formerly Irish Water)). If a customer is not happy with a response received from Uisce Éireann they have the right to appeal and can escalate this and make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The First Home Scheme, which launched in July 2022, is a shared equity scheme, designed to help bridge the gap for eligible first-time buyers, eligible homebuyers, and self-builders, between their deposit and mortgage, and the price of their new home (within price ceilings established across the country). Full details are available on the First Home Scheme website, www.firsthomescheme.ie. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I refer to the reply to Question No. 322 of 30 January 2024 which sets out the average costs for units delivered via CALF Construction, CALF Turnkey, CALF Part V, CAS Construction, CAS Turnkey, CAS Part V, SHIP Construction, SHIP Turnkey and SHIP Part V. The average cost per unit for Cost Rental Equity Loan from Q1 to Q3 2023 is €127,341. To note that this average cost represents...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (27 Feb 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Corporation tax policy is determined by the Minister for Finance and administered by Revenue. The Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission was informed about the Land Development Agency in August 2018. Detailed information was provided to the Commission in April 2021 prior to the enactment of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 outlining the nature and role and...