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

Kieran O'Donnell: It is amendments Nos. 405, 406, 415 and 416.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: These amendments introduce two key changes to terminology used in the Bill with respect to UNESCO world heritage properties. As currently drafted, section 48(3) defines a UNESCO site as a site which has been inscribed on the world heritage list by the world heritage committee. As there are a range of different UNESCO cultural conventions, covering areas such as world heritage, underwater...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 405: In page 108, to delete lines 12 and 13 and substitute the following: “(e) World Heritage Properties, having due regard to the reasons for the inscription of the property on the World Heritage List under Article 11 of the World Heritage Convention,”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 406: In page 108, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(f) World Heritage candidate sites,”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 415: In page 108, to delete lines 35 to 40, and in page 109, to delete line 1.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 416: In page 109, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “ “World Heritage Convention” means the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage done in Paris on 23 November 1972; “World Heritage candidate site” means a property included in the most recent inventory submitted on behalf of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Cathaoirleach very much and I am delighted to be here. I also thank the Cathaoirleach and members of the committee for the invitation to update members in this very important area. My Department’s policy in respect of housing for disabled people is underpinned by a dedicated joint strategy between my Department and the Department of Health since 2011. The most recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Senator McGreehan. I came into the Department at the start of last year. As the national strategy for housing for people with disabilities had been published, I worked with the officials to bring the implementation plan up to date. It was something I felt very strongly about and we published that. I tried to make it in real time. Within that, we have each of the housing and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of that breakdown, we get a summary of needs assessment, which is submitted on an annual basis. The latest figures we have are from 1 November 2022. To go through the figures, there were 4,931 households and the main need for housing support was deemed to be one of the four disabilities, as well as the category of other disabilities. Of these, 3,842 households had a specific need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is a summary. It is coming through in two areas, namely, the social housing investment programme, SHIP, which is funding that local authorities get directly and through the CAS. In 2022, according to the latest figures from CAS, 112 housing units were delivered under CAS for disabled people at a cost of €16 million. A consistent statistic of 15% overall of people who got social...