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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Valuations (18 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: The Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015 provide for the valuation of all commercial and industrial property for rating purposes. The Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the performance of his functions under the Acts and the making of valuations for rating is his sole responsibility. I, as Minister, have no function in decisions in this regard. The Deputy may be aware that, under the...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I believe we will have the same head of steam, and I think it will be bigger, because we are dealing with those rawest of Irish emotions, hard borders and soft borders, which are topical in other areas currently. At least we will have the opportunity for people to think about it. That is a fair assessment, but I do not believe there will ever be a situation where there would be full...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: Every Member present has engaged at some level during the process on this Bill and particularly on this part of the Bill. Having listened to the Committee Stage debate, I was conscious of the fact that what was proposed, particularly with regard to the local area plan, was a big change and that we should have more time for consideration. I was also conscious of the fact that nobody...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: It will be required to put back the publication and coming into effect of the new electoral registers that will apply in Cork City Council and Cork County Council for the local elections in May 2019 if the enactment and commencement of this Bill is delayed beyond the early part of the new year. It is merely a provision to allow for the publication of the registers in Cork to be put back if...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: Deputy Breathnach should not go there.

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 36, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: "Amendment of Electoral Act 1992 46. The Act of 1992 is amended—(a) in section 164, by the insertion in subsection (1) of—(i) ", a plebiscite under Part 6 of the Local Government Act 2018" after “local elections”, and (ii) ", plebiscite" after "such election", and(b) in...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: They will be required in Cork.

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I do not particularly disagree with the points Deputy Darragh O'Brien is making but I am not in a position to unilaterally make a Government decision binding post plebiscite. I can only try to reassure him that my position is clear that if they are passed, there must be a report. The two-year period is just a maximum period. If they are passed, I would absolutely intend to have...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: In response to Deputy O'Brien, I am not in a position to bind my successor. Not alone that, but the result of the plebiscite will require a Government decision to move to the stage of legislating to enact to provide for the position. A plebiscite is different from a referendum by nature anyway. Deputy O'Brien might be familiar with the referendum in 1979 to extend the franchise for the...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: 4 o’clock I move amendment No. 9:In page 23, line 12, to delete "section" and substitute "subsection".

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I will not reconsider-----

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: Deputy Naughten spoke about the financial issues in Galway, of which I am acutely aware. The Bill refers only to the appointment of a single chief executive, which was the situation in Galway until the mid 1980s. Indeed, as Deputy McGuinness outlined, the same situation existed in Kilkenny until much later. We are still retaining two separate corporate bodies. That is why the issues...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: We will never agree on that. The difference between Cork and Galway is that in Galway city and county we are talking about a population of just over 300,000 people but in Cork city and county, the population is heading for 1 million. This is not about geographic size but about people. I have had so many meetings with representatives from Galway at which Deputy Ó Cuív makes the...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: No. I was born on the Wexford boundary. I worked in Tipperary. I am a boundary boy.

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: City council.

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: There are two very different issues. I will not accept the amendment but the points Deputy Eamon Ryan made are correct. The sections about Cork are included in this Bill primarily because of the issues the Deputy raised concerning the city centre being hollowed out. While much of the development of Cork in the past 30 years has happened outside the existing city boundary, to the outside...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 6, line 17, to delete “the map” and substitute “the map (a true copy of which was laid before each House of the Oireachtas on 25 July 2018)”. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 relate to section 2, which is the interpretation section. They are drafting amendments that move text relating to the deposited map in respect of the relevant area....

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, lines 31 and 32, to delete “ (a true copy of which was laid before each House of the Oireachtas on 25 July 2018)”.

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 7, line 22, after “subsection (3)” to insert “and section 41”. This amendment is to section 3 of the Bill, which relates to regulation. It is for the purpose of including a plebiscite regulation, made under section 41 as part of the exception to section 3(4), which provides that regulations made under the Bill just require to be laid...

Local Government Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

John Paul Phelan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 14, line 33, to delete “subsection (3)” and substitute “subsection (1)”. Amendments Nos. 4 to 7, inclusive, are technical amendments to substitute subsection (1) for the four subsection (3) references in section 16. It relates to the transfer of staff in the local authorities in Cork. The relevant provision was originally in section...