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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans with respect to the help-to-buy scheme; if it will continue beyond the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38412/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the advice he can offer to first-time homeowners seeking to build their own home on private land; the supports available in this scenario; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38412/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the Departmental advice to schools with respect to CO2 monitoring; the basis for 1400 to 1500 ppm being considered poor ventilation given that other Government bodies including the HSE put the figure closer to 800 ppm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CO2 monitors her Department has purchased for the coming school year; the projected date for their delivery to schools; if she proposes to have one in every classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: 384. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to make a drug (details supplied) available to patients in Ireland; and the status of this review process. [31270/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: Good afternoon, I welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for planning and local government, Deputy Peter Burke, to consider the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021. These have been referred to the committee by order of the Seanad, dated 12 July, and by order of the Dáil, dated 14 July. The briefing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I apologise to Senator Dolan and welcome her to this afternoon's meeting in substitution for Senator Seery Kearney. The next slot is the Green Party's so I will take that. I would like a few clarifications. The application system and the assessment of something to be placed under a section 254 licence remains the same. I understand that if the same 100 m criteria were applied to 140,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: Is there any concern that, because it will be done as part of a network now rather than an individual 100 m stretch, we could end up with more overhead wiring and cabling systems in places where it is preferable to duct underground in either new or existing ducting? Is there any concern that because of this new way of assessing it, the applicant might just go all overhead as it is easier to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: If an operator were to run a kilometre of overhead cable and then reached a town, he or she might underground it because it is preferable aesthetically, and then continue 500 m down the road at the other end of that town. Would this in any way create situations where the operator or the applicant might just decide to run it all overhead because it is the one licence application?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to take that on board and ensure good guidance is given in order that, wherever possible-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: That is grand. In general, the fees that are charged for planning applications rarely, if ever, cover the workload that is involved for local authority planners. That is something that is going to have to be looked at and we should consider it in the future given we are talking about a reduction in fees. Am I correct in saying this will apply to everything, not just projects related to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will leave it at that as that has answered my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: We will move on to the second Fine Gael slot. I will move on to the second Sinn Féin slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes, go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Senator Dolan. I will move on to the second Sinn Féin slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. We will move on to the second independent slot. Is it Deputy O'Donoghue? Senator Boyhan had another committee meeting to attend. I will move on to the second Green Party slot. A question has just occurred to me. This licensing applies to new networks for them being put in. Does a licence need to be applied for where a pole is being replaced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: What occurred to me was that there is probably a new standard or maybe a standard that is being enforced now where when you place something on a pavement, it has to be recessed back a certain distance from the kerbside. It is to allow for vehicle sweep or vehicle overhang. Previously, that standard was not there or was not enforced. Many poles will have to be replaced as part of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will move on now. The two final slots are a Fianna Fáil slot and a Fine Gael slot. We have covered most of it. I am not sure whether anyone wants to come in on either of those two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Flaherty. That concludes our consideration of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations 2021. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for their attendance, for answering our questions and for the briefing document that was provided. I also thank the members to attending.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following motion: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 254 – Overground Telecommunication Cables) Regulations...