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

Paddy Burke: It seems that the Planning Regulator has a huge role in these plans. When one takes the regional assemblies into account and the plans they bring forward in the making of their own regional and economic strategies, it seems to me from my reading of this Bill, which is quite complex and complicated, that the Planning Regulator feeds into the regional assembly and that is what then feeds down...

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

Paddy Burke: ...did not think we could have legislation with a retrospective impact. It was pointed out yesterday, however, that this measure could be retrospectively applied to people who gave false information and that other people could be held accountable now through retrospective legislation. I would like to hear what the Minister of State has to say on this point.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...he raised. I fully support him on it. I join with the expressions of sympathy regarding our former colleague, John O'Mahony, who died last week. I express my sympathies to his wife, Gerardine, and their family. I am sure we will have an opportunity to express those sympathies at a later date. I will raise the issue of artificial intelligence and new technologies. We should have a...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...us there is absolutely nothing that councillors cannot put into a county development plan. They can do everything. I would like clarity on that point. Councillors tell us they can do nothing and can put nothing into development plans because the managers will take it out. They cannot go against the advice of the manager or the regulator. The regulator told us that there is absolutely...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Two sections, sections 7 and 8, deal with short-term lets. What is different in section 7 regarding short-term lets? Is it just because they are in the rent pressure zone area-----

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: We are dealing with section 7 and short-term lets as they relate to rent pressure zones, which are included in section 7.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Section 7(d) deals with short-term lets. It references "short-term letting (within the meaning of section 8)" and rent pressure zones. Is it just short-term lets in rent pressure zone areas that section 7 deals with? Are such lets dealt with differently under this section than in section 8 or will section 7 deal with them in the same way?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Short-term lets are a result of the changes brought about by the Internet, such as people being able to do business online. They have been brilliant for tourism areas and I am sure some of those areas are in rent pressure zones. We have been lobbied by people who let their properties short term to supplement their wages and pay for children to go to third level education. It is a way of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: I agree with the Order of Business as outlined by the Leader. Will the Leader ask Iarnród Éireann to clarify the position regarding the restoration of in-carriage services for light food and beverages?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: It has said it will be restored to InterCity services but that does not clarify the position for other routes such as that from Heuston Station to Westport and Ballina. I congratulate Iarnród Éireann on the service it is running at the moment. We have six services from Mayo to Dublin on a daily basis. They are on time even though the time it takes now is nearly the same or maybe...

Seanad: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...on bringing this Bill through the House. It is a very important Bill from the perspective of charities. It gives power to the regulator to oversee that charitable organisations are run on an efficient and above-board basis. Over the years, we saw many charities which had fundraising with church-gate collections. Now we see less and less of that because there are fewer mass times...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...legislation that is about to be passed by the House. The Senator stated that peaceful demonstration is a vital part of our democracy. That is quite true. We have to allow people to demonstrate and to protest in a peaceful manner but what we have seen over the past number of years outside high-profile public representatives' private houses where their families are inside, is not...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: .... She said it all when she said that it will establish the principle of pay-related benefit in this country. As she also stated, this can lead developments in areas such as maternity benefit and many more. There could probably be paternity benefits as well as other benefits that are not being paid at the moment in cases where a great deal of pressure is being placed on employees and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: .... As the Minister of State will know, the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar, was renovated in the past ten years. St. Joseph's ward, where the respite beds are, was renovated during the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a respite bed and a rehabilitation bed in St. Joseph's Ward. Prior to Covid-19, there were two respite beds at the Sacred Heart Hospital in St. Joseph's ward. There is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...of State for her response but I do not think it will go down that well with the population in Castlebar. It seems the HSE will provide a bed anywhere except in Castlebar, which is the county town and which has a huge hinterland and a big population. All the routes lead in to Castlebar. It is much easier for people to visit a relative or a loved one in Castlebar. To be quite honest, I...

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

Paddy Burke: I raise an issue that I raised before on the OPW making submissions to planning authorities on floodplains. It has made several submissions related to areas where housing has been built and where planning permission may be required or due. This has consequences for both. It has consequences for people who have houses built because they will not get insurance if the OPW has said that they...

Seanad: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...safe to say this Bill was quite a number of years in gestation. I hope that when it comes to fruition, it will do exactly what he said, namely bring much confidence to the charitable organisations and the sector. People kindly give to many charities. As he said, there are 11,500 charities. This is a large number in a small country and it means a huge number of people employed in the...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...what he said. Nobody said it is wrong, but it has not been tested, which is the problem. We are looking into the future. I agree with the Minister in this case. We need to get this up and running. It has been going on for 30 years. I hope, as Senator McDowell said, that the Minister will get on with this Bill immediately. In some cases, many people may have only five or ten years...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: ...from Senator Higgins because the State makes a contribution to people's pensions. At the same time, the Senator is saying that we should remove the tax relief from small business owners and small self-employed people. These individuals are probably the biggest employers in the country. They are small employers but taken together, they represent one huge employer. Senator Higgins is...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paddy Burke: I am sure common sense will come into play when the legislation is up and running. I am certain the questions posed by Senator Higgins will be answered. Section 33 makes provision for appearances by members of the board of the authority before the Committee of Public Accounts. I am sure the CEO, chairperson and whoever else will be brought in at several stages, either at the request of the...

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