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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: Having listened to Senator McDowell, he is suggesting we are creating a legal quagmire in this Bill for generations to come. Yesterday, it also transpired this measure would be applied retrospectively to every business as well. I 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...

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

Paddy Burke: I agree with Senator Dooley on the issue 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...

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

Paddy Burke: I listened to the number of points made by Senator McDowell. He made some great points about the legislation. As a group of Senators, we met the regulator on one occasion. The regulator told 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...

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 trustees of a charity, is it the Charities Regulator that will decide if there are breaches relating to a trustee? Who oversees cases where a trustee might have to step aside or vacate their responsibilities as a trustee?

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

Paddy Burke: Now.

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

Paddy Burke: Now.

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

Paddy Burke: I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy O’Brien, 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...

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

Paddy Burke: I congratulate Senator Malcolm Byrne on bringing forward this Bill. I join him in thanking the Minister for accepting it. This is important 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the witnesses today. They have brought a good amount of clarity to the Bill. I want to briefly ask about retrospective payments. How far back do the witnesses think it should go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: I am not so sure that we can-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: I do not think we can legislate for retrospective payments. I am not so sure we can do that. Is this different because of the Supreme Court's decision that we are now acting on foot of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paddy Burke: Did the court establish whether it is the kids who get the money or is it the parents or the couple who get it? If the payments are made, is it because of the couple or is it because they have kids? Who is entitled to the money? Is it the kids who get the money?

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

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I also welcome this very important legislation. As the Minister indicated, it will be important going forward because it is a foundation stone in the context of pay-related benefit. 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...