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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I will start with an issue brought to my attention approximately 12 months ago, whereby someone seeking planning permission for 98 residential homes received a letter and was told that due to the statutory guidelines the time for the decision would be extended beyond 18 weeks. I got a sense from the letter that there was an element of...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: Both organisations are exposed to it.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: I have a few more questions.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: Does the Office of the Planning Regulator highlight these councils? Where are they highlighted? Where are the councils that do not co-operate in this process being highlighted?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: Can Mr. Cussen send me the names of those councils?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: It is also a question of who the efficient ones are. Which are the councils that are actually-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: I think there is a cultural change in relation to the progression of projects. For some of the exemptions that the Office of the Planning Regulator is coming forward with to try to speed up the development of heritage developments, or whatever the case may be, I feel these exemptions are getting caught up at a local level in subjective reviews. Maybe the guidelines are not detailed enough....

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: It is important to note that such applicants during that period lost out on development levy waivers and Uisce Éireann connection charges.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: It is important to note that, because of the delay on the side of An Coimisiún Pleanála, they lost out on development waivers and connection charges.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a review of utility infrastructure deficits in rural towns and villages; how these deficits are currently limiting the delivery of rural housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36137/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: Is the Department undertaking a review of utility infrastructure deficits in rural towns and villages and on how such deficits are currently limiting delivery of rural housing? Will the Minister make a statement on that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: I appreciate the reply but I want to give an example of a rural town in my area. Edenderry has a population of 8,000 and is within commuting distance of Dublin. Towns within its environs have grown, yet there will be no development from Uisce Éireann there until 2029. There is a key issue whereby theory and practice are not aligned. Offaly County Council referred to the delivery of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: I welcome the developer-led initiative, but a viability element has to be taken into consideration. Where developers are expected to provide an interim measure, Uisce Éireann has to engage and liaise with them to ensure that it remains economically viable for them to do so. The Uisce Éireann website is not developer friendly. The capacity register on the website provides an...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to advise on his Department’s approach to the Programme for Government commitment to “consider the use of sustainable biofuels to reduce emissions from existing home boilers where deep retrofits are not possible in the short term”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36235/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to advise on his Department’s position on both the use of HVO for fuel home heating systems and the Programme for Government commitment to “improve traceability in HVO procurement to ensure the product is from sustainable sources”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36236/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set-out the supports available to support homeowners who currently rely on turf for their home heating to transition to renewable heating systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36237/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set-out the supports available to support homeowners who currently rely on turf for their home heating to transition to renewable heating systems; if supports for this cohort will be provided by the way of Ireland’s Social Climate Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide data on the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the burning of turf in private homes in Ireland, both in terms of overall volume and as a proportion of total Irish greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being considered to ensure that utility infrastructure capacity does not become a long-term barrier to rural housing development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to advise when the new Countryside Forum for Nature is to hold its first meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36240/25]