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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the point Deputy Ó Broin is making. He mentioned Moore Street as an example. I know it well. Deputy Ó Broin is seeking to add text similar to that in section 9. While the setting would generally be taken into account it should not be a restriction. For example, a development could be in the grounds of a protected structure and we have seen many of these in many of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the point well, and I understand Moore Street as an example. I assume we are not using Moore Street as a mechanism to change the Bill. It and the battlefield site are very important. I know the area well and I know the history of it very well also, as I am sure all Deputies here do. With regard to the definition, while we could say it is the alleyways in this example for many...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have said what needs to be said from our perspective. I understand the objective. It may be unhelpful to use a specific site as an example. In Moore Street, there have been many changes since the Rising, many of which people would not have welcomed. What can be retained now that was relevant in 1916, or prior to that with the original buildings, which are of architectural merit as well?...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...previous break. My view is these would be matters for decision by a planning authority at planning application stage. I discussed with Deputies Ó Broin and Cian O'Callaghan the very example of Moore Street and how, since the events of the Rising, that street has changed and its character has changed as well but we need to protect the national monument and we have gone through all of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The State acquired the national monument at no's 14 to 17 Moore Street as well as part of number 18 from NAMA in 2015 in order to create a 1916 Rising commemorative centre at a cost of €4 million. Further funding has been secured to carry out the necessary works to have the buildings stabilised, refurbished and ready for public tours. The Department is not in a position to estimate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (11 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The report referred to was the subject of a recent Freedom of Information request and was released in full. The report does not identify No. 18 Moore Street as a pre-1916 structure.  It stated that No.18 Moore Street was 'in ruins' in 1916 and that a portion of its 19th century facade remains to the first floor at the front.  An earlier report (2005) produced by the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...-to-buy grant and the first home scheme. Twelve schemes came through that staged process and we will be able to move the first four early next year. I want to leave the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, some time to respond on Moore Street.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: All funding allocated and spent to date on the acquisition of and works at the national monument at 14-17 Moore Street has come from the Exchequer and the Vote of the relevant Department at the time. All and any involvement by NAMA ended when the buildings were acquired from the Agency in 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (28 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The project for the national monument at numbers 14-17 Moore Street was awarded €12.17 million in funding under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund in 2021. The current focus is on phase 1 conservation works as a priority and the OPW will move to consider phase 2 interpretation works in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (31 Jan 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Limited preliminary  engagement  on a possible scheme to compensate Moore Street traders for business disruption during construction works by various parties, initiated by Dublin City Council and involving Hammerson and my Department started  in mid April 2021.  Once Hammerson's planning applications were lodged my Department considered that it would not be appropriate to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (26 Jan 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The national monument at 14 - 17 Moore Street is in the ownership of the State and the OPW are in the process of appointing a design team to resume phase one stabilisation works on the buildings. Works to the national monument will facilitate the protection and reuse of these historic buildings as an iconic heritage and visitor attraction in the form of a 1916 Rising commemorative centre.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (24 Feb 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Summary of Social Housing Assessment 2020 Q1 2021 Glendalough Outstanding Universal Value Study Q2 2021 Scoping Study in to Potential for an Increased State and State Supported Heritage and Culture Presence in the Moore Street Area Q1 2021 Custom House conservation and capacity works – Public Spending Code Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (20 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I am anxious to have the works to the national monument at Nos. 14 -17 Moore Street completed as soon as possible so that the buildings can be opened to the public to both resonate the mercantile, social and political heritage of the area as a 1916 commemorative quarter and to contribute to the overall rejuvenation of this part of the north inner city. Officials from my Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (14 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: The recommendation of the outgoing Moore Street Advisory Group that it should be reconfigured to continue its work as a smaller, more focused body, was agreed and accepted by the Minister at the time, including the reappointment of the outgoing chair to lead the next phase. Membership nominations were also requested from constituent organisations, including relatives’ groups, street...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (6 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: Regeneration is urgently needed to bring people back into the Moore Street area. The Moore Street Advisory Group, which includes 1916 Relatives, public representatives and street traders, has welcomed the proposals of the developer referred to by the Deputy for the regeneration of the area and has characterised them as ‘a significant and welcome advance on the previous plan with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (10 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: The recommendation of the outgoing Moore Street Advisory Group that it should be reconfigured to continue its work as a smaller, more focused body, was accepted by the Minister at the time. The outgoing chair was reappointed to lead the next phase and membership nominations were requested from constituent organisations, including relatives’ groups, the Oireachtas and Dublin City...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: ...like this does not happen again, and it is outrageous to think it can happen. I know we had quite a fractious debate in some part last week. I apologise if I offended anyone last week when we debated the regeneration of Moore Street, as that was not my intention. However, the Bill I introduced was about this very thing - the economic regeneration of the north O'Connell Street-Moore...

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit chuig an Seanad. It gives me great pleasure today to introduce to the House on Second Stage the Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015. First, I wish to commend a few people who have worked tirelessly for the past 13 or 14 years, many of whom are in the Visitors Gallery this evening....

Seanad: Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: ...outset that this Bill was not perfect. It is on Second Stage and amendments can be made and new sections inserted. It is an opportunity and vehicle to deliver an historic quarter and to designate Moore Street and surrounding areas as an historic quarter in what we all know is the birthplace of our republic. It would not appropriate to insert the vision of the Rising in the Bill. This...