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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: Mr. Cussen would make a recommendation to the Minister based on national guidelines that a particular amendment or objective does not comply. It is up to the Minister then to decide whether to issue a directive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: Is the Minister's assessment of Mr. Cussen's recommendation stating that the Minister has assessed this recommendation from the OPR and disagrees with it and will not issue a directive available publicly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Cussen. I ask about resources for planning services throughout the country. We talk about the importance of the three stages - the forward planning, the consent process and the enforcement process. Is it Mr. Cussen's view that the planning services throughout local authorities are well enough resourced? It is my view that enforcement is always the poor relation when it comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Cussen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: There are two minutes left in the slot if Ms O'Connor wishes to comment on the direct question on Dún Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I am sorry but I have to interrupt. We are well over time on the slot. We will return to density and design if we get a chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: Senator Cummins has exactly 30 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Cussen. It is a subject we could spend a great deal of time discussing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: Urban and rural planning and consolidation of towns, instead of a spread, is probably the answer in that regard. The third Fianna Fáil slot is available now. I call Senator Malcolm Byrne to come back in, and he might get a chance to elaborate on that urban-rural question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Cussens and Ms O'Connor. We could easily go around the table for another two hours of questions on planning. Many of those questions have not yet had a chance of being asked. We would probably look for another session with the regulator in the future, possibly after its annual report is published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will finish on a density question, it is not about density for density's sake. When one gets density right one can provide services, and that is often public transport. We need to take into account carbon emissions from car-based sprawl that we have had over the last 40 to 60 years, when we just planned for the car. We have to rejig our thinking around that.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Today we begin the journey to net zero and we legislate for the ambition of decades of work by environmentalists, climate activists, scientists, NGOs and more recently the voters across our communities who have demanded action to stop our climate chaos and biodiversity loss. We do this for the young people across this country and across the world who went on strike and marched and raised the...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I am delighted to see the final transfer of the heritage function to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I think the right place for it is down in the Customs House with the planning, local government and water sections. I am particularly delighted to see the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, take on this role, given his lifetime of experience, activism and commitment...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the music entertainment business assistance scheme; and the timeline for the roll-out of same. [22315/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 409. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the mechanisms her Department has put in place to ensure an open competition for project tendering with regard to the recent grant funding allocated to local authorities to fund live performances in summer 2021. [22316/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the use of outside facilities (details supplied) by schools under current Covid-19 restrictions; and if guidance has been offered to schools in this regard. [22186/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 1083. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Irish citizens returning home after residing abroad who received a non-EMA approved Covid-19 vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22226/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health the public Covid-19 guidelines with respect to outdoor holiday campsites that cater for self-contained vehicles only; and if clear information will be provided to this sector regarding when it will be permitted to reopen. [22187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: 1082. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign led by an organisation (details supplied) regarding access for all persons with type 1 diabetes to the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22224/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: My question is on Vote 2 - the shared island unit and climate action unit. The Green Party in Northern Ireland has introduced the Northern Ireland climate change Bill. It is timely that the Green Party, as an all-island political party, is front and centre in introducing transformative and ambitious climate action legislation. I understand the Bill is on Committee Stage today. I am fairly...