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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for taking the Commencement matter. She will agree that the work civil registration offices do daily to register births, deaths and marriages is invaluable. The staff in all of these offices are to be commended on the work they do. She will also agree with the importance of this essential service being located in areas that are easily accessible to the public...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is actually health.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for her response but unfortunately it does not address the matter sufficiently. This is a staffing issue, yes. For some bizarre reason, the HSE is responsible for the staffing in these offices even though civil registration is actually under the remit of the Department of Social Protection. In the first line of her response, the Minister of State mentioned...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: The Leader is aware that I sought a debate with the Minister for Transport and the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, on aviation policy. This is the fifth occasion that I have used the Order of Business to seek such a debate. My understanding from the previous response I received was that the request has gone in from the Seanad Office every time but that to date no timescale has been...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

John Cummins: I welcome the fact that today 49 cost-rental units will be advertised in Mountneil in Waterford city. These are being delivered by a local developer in partnership with Tuath Housing Association and Waterford City and County Council. These 49 A-rated three-bedroom and two-bedroom homes are being delivered at rents ranging from €1,000 to €1,200 depending on the size of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I apologise to the Minister for his sitting in the chair for the last three hours without getting to speak. I promise I will be brief in my points. I feel left out of the conversation this morning, so felt the necessity of contributing. I will bring it around the amendments and sections we are dealing with. Section 46 deals with housing development strategies and section 52 is on...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: It is unfair to target a Member like that.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: Not to labour the point, but I ask the Senator to look at section 58(12)(e). Where, in proposing a variation the members of an authority are not in compliance with the Office of the Planning Regulator or the Minister, they have to give notice of the reasons for the decision not to comply with the recommendations concerned.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No, that is it. There is no recommendation. Let us be very clear. Senator McDowell is suggesting that there is some sort of other veto, but that is not in the Bill before us. We need to be honest about that. It is clear in section 58(12)(e).

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: No.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: That happens.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: That happens.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I do not know where to start after listening to that tirade from Senator McDowell. Perhaps when I am making my contribution, the Senator might go beyond page 108 of the Bill, go to page 137, and actually read section 58, which refers to variations of the development plan. He will see some of the recommendations that we as members of the joint committee, including a number of us present, fed...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I move amendment No. 118: In page 80, to delete lines 14 to 16 and substitute the following: “(f) the formation of a metropolitan area strategic plan implementation and delivery board within each regional assembly for each metropolitan area strategic plan area, and the formation of an implementation and delivery board for each regional assembly, to include constituent local...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I move amendment No. 119: In page 80, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(d) make new metropolitan area strategic plans in accordance with section 29(5).”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I moved amendment No. 122: In page 89, line 32, to delete “4 years” and substitute “3 years”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I move amendment No. 123: In page 89, line 33, to delete “4 years” and substitute “3 years”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

John Cummins: I move amendment No. 124: In page 89, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following “(5) In the event that the commencement of a review of a regional spatial and economic strategy is due to occur in the same year as the preparation of a monitoring report of the regional spatial and economic strategy in the same regional assembly area, the progress report under subsection (3) and...