Results 61-80 of 341 for does speaker:Malcolm Noonan

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...of proceedings and in which an applicant succeeds in obtaining relief; the contribution made from the environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism to the costs of an applicant who does not succeed in obtaining relief or succeeds in obtaining relief only in part; and the contribution made from the environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism to the costs awarded to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It does not say it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...processes and Government approval but, once issued, the Bill provides for other tiers of planning, whether regional or local, to review their own plans for alignment with the national policy. It does not dictate that the national planning statements are applied inflexibly or unilaterally. The process as drafted, therefore, improves alignment throughout the planning system while allowing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...to these acquisitions, subject to those acquisitions being within Acquisition Cost Guidelines issued by the Department. As such, applications are a matter for the local authorities. My Department does not hold data, therefore, on the number of social housing acquisitions applications that have been withdrawn or rejected, nor on the reasons for such withdrawals or rejections. Further...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...implementing and developing their own plans, through their development plan processes, to put in place sustainable transport. I appreciate what the Deputy is saying about promotion but the measure does place an obligation on local authorities. The overarching climate action plan sets out sectoral targets for all bodies. This governance provision dictates how authorities respond.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Does the phrase "pedestrian and cycling infrastructure" satisfy that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: If the Deputy does not mind, we can do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...what the Deputy is saying. It should be designed that way anyway and that should be the case. However, as the Deputy said, there are probably examples in all of our constituencies where it does not take place. My view is that it is best placed in a development plan more overtly.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, it does.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The case law is very clear on lack of consideration of public transport. It can be refused if consideration is not given to the public transport in an area. Does that clarify the matter?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...in a special planning control area, an enforcement notice or a planning injunction, as well as development which is subject to a licence under section 12. These types of development are already set out in section 80(1) as development which does not require planning permission under Part 4 so this amendment is ensuring consistency throughout the Bill.Amendment No. 34 is a consequential...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...area, and includes ... the waters of that part of the maritime area ... the seabed in that part of the maritime area, and ... all substrata beneath the seabed in that part of the maritime area". Does that ring a bell, from Deputy Ó Broin's recollection?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We will have to come back to the Deputy on the definition of "on, in, over or under". The State owns the maritime area. The unauthorised development only takes place on a site. Does that clarify the difference?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Minister may by order provide that permission is not required for certain State authority development, where such development is required by reason of an accident or emergency, and the development does not require appropriate assessment or environmental impact assessment. The example given is Covid emergency legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (24 Jan 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...a number of calls within various City and County Councils. In parallel, the contrary view has also been expressed by other parties that the resting place should not be disturbed. The Minister does not have a direct role in relation to any decision in principle on whether the remains should be disinterred for reburial elsewhere. However, Ministerial Consent under Section 14 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...any bird for the purpose of hunting any protected wild birds, other than wood pigeons, wild duck and wild geese”. The section confines the use of decoys to these species only. Section 35(4) of the Act does not give the Minister any power to approve the use of decoy crows for the purpose of protecting crops and animal feed.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...xfa;n. While I accept that the proposed amendments are well intentioned and acknowledge that the establishment of a permanent and independent electoral commission with a statutory responsibility for constituency reviews does change the field in this matter, I would nonetheless make the case that there is still merit in this function remaining with the Minster for a number of reasons. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (12 Dec 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...erection or installation of qualifying equipment for the microgeneration of electricity for use in a farm business. VAT incurred for other purposes, such as on the acquisition of equipment or machinery, does not come within the scope of the refund order. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that, where the installation of equipment requires the alteration or reconstruction of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (12 Dec 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Derby, which has been run in Shelbourne Park since 1932. The stadium is directly competing with other very modern facilities in Dublin, such as Croke Park and the Aviva Stadium, and the offering currently at Shelbourne Park does not meet the expectation of the modern customer. There is no doubt that some essential improvement works in track and basic facilities are required. There is...