Results 141-160 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: The Senator has made a valid point. We are not going to solve it on Committee Stage, so perhaps it can be brought to the attention of the Attorney General. I suggest we deal with the issue on Report Stage by ensuring that in circumstances where a third party has purchased a premises and has had nothing to do with giving false or misleading information, in the limited circumstances where...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I remember telephone books.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Is this Second Stage or is this Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Yes, which is dealt with in section 496. The Senator knows that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Section 496 is on the Planning Regulator and the Senator knows that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: It is very important. If we take commercial buildings, for example, there are different classes of such buildings. My understanding is that we are introducing the exemptions from planning for former public houses to be converted into residential units without the need to go for planning, as outlined in section 9, because there are different classes pertaining to each type of class of...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I come from a different perspective than Senator Higgins, particularly in relation to section 9 because I have seen first hand the value of exempted development. I have seen the changes we have made to the classes of development, turning commercial development into residential development for housing. I have seen it in my city of Waterford play in conjunction with the repair and lease...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I will come in briefly on the short-term letting piece to which Senator McDowell referred before the break. I understand this section is exactly the same as the section in the current legislation. The background is that the Department of tourism has been trying to come up with guidance in this space and went to the European Union for an opinion. That has come back and negotiations are...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I agree with the premise of the Minister of State's argument on the grouping. It was never intended that section 5 of the previous Act would be used as an enforcement mechanism. Rather, it was to facilitate development. This is the point I made during pre-legislative scrutiny, particularly regarding section 10(6), on the time it takes to get declaration. The new section 10, which was...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: The Minister of State might clarify something in his response. What is being referred to is the planning enforcement process, which is entirely separate from what we are talking about here. If I own a property in Waterford city centre and works are required to the internal fabric of that building to change it from one property to three properties to provide units for housing purposes, I may...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I thank the witnesses. I have an open mind as to which is better as well - possibly an extension to the end of September. That would allow us as a committee to meet to discuss this and give sufficient feedback. That would be appropriate, but that is a discussion for another day. The area I want to focus on is the population targets, specifically as regards Waterford. This has been a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I strongly contest that point. It is not consistent where it applies to Waterford because the population of Tramore is 11,500 now, I think. It has outstripped Dungarvan for the first time. It is a suburb of Waterford city. If the Department were applying the same methodology, it could not but tell me that there is any difference between Shannon to Limerick, Carrigaline to Cork or Salthill...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: The commuters from Tramore to Waterford city account for 70%-plus daily. The point I am making, not to labour it, is that I believe the Department's figures in 4.1 for Waterford are not accurate as a starting point, and that obviously impacts the second point, which is what the population growth target for the area is out to 2040. If we are not starting with the right figure, then the figure...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: My question is what the Department is defining as a suburb.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: If I look at the regional, spatial and economic strategy, RSES, document, there is the city and suburbs in the Kilkenny area, the remainder of the metropolitan area in Kilkenny, the Waterford city and suburbs in the Waterford administrative areas, and the remainder of the metropolitan area within the Waterford area. If I just take the three metropolitan areas excluding anything in Kilkenny,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: As part of this process, the MASPs are to be revised. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: I am saying there is. There is a glaring omission. Representatives of the Southern Regional Assembly, when they were before the committee on pre-legislative scrutiny on the Planning and Development Bill, acknowledged that they had no hand, act or part in the development of the boundaries of the MASPs. They were handed down by the Department to them and they equally cannot understand how...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Finally, the Department said it carried out a process that was equal across all the areas and that it engaged with stakeholders but it is very clear the Southern Regional Assembly is of the view the Tramore area should be in the Waterford MASP. Waterford City and County Council made submissions on that. I was a member of the council at the time. It was very frustrated it was not included....
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Now.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2024)
John Cummins: Now.