Results 281-300 of 6,071 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Under the legislation, is it not the case that a local authority can designate a public right of way?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It has to be registered with Tailte Éireann.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Unfortunately, establishing and vindicating public rights of way is very difficult and challenging in Ireland by comparison with our neighbouring country, for example. If you go walking in England, you will find rights of way everywhere. England has an incredibly good network that puts us to shame. When we see things done well in neighbouring countries, we always ask why we cannot do the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not just entirely an issue with respect to TDs. It is an issue with respect to councillors as well. Councillors in Dublin City Council located within a few kilometres of the airport would not be included in this, yet councillors much further away would be. Why does it matter? The role elected representatives play in terms of getting this information for the immediate communities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why not just accept the wording so it is explicitly clear? Our current situation is that we do not have, in tenure mix-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but our current situation is that we are getting planning application after application for rental-only developments when it comes to apartments and we are not getting that with respect to houses and duplexes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair. Amendment No. 906 is standalone, and inserts, on page 405, the following wording: A Housing Strategy shall include— (a) an estimate of the amount of land that the local authority will need to acquire through compulsory purchase orders or other means to meet future housing needs as estimated in the housing strategy and to ensure that land is available at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it was done, it could be done and it worked well. The problem is that it is not being done now for whatever reason. That is why my amendment would mean there would be an obligation not just to come up with the housing strategy-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: With respect, when this was written originally, less compact development was happening. Also, this might have been written when the 10% rather than the original 20% was in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the planning enforcement section-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am concerned that the removal of this means a value is not being placed on landscapes. Some landscapes can be significant. The committee has discussed this in respect of other legislation with regard to archaeology and heritage. Surely if this has been seldom used,it is not an argument for removing it. It means it has been used responsibly and it has not been overused or abused. It has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not think it has been moved from one place to another. This is an obligation to prepare a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. Quite reasonably, a local authority may have a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. In this, it has its strategy on landscape conservation. The strategy may state there will be a landscape conservation area because the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not a full replacement for a landscape conservation area. Typically if a strategy were to include objectives for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of landscapes, part of the strategy would be an option to designate the area of a landscape conservation area. There may be areas where there are other objectives, and this full level of protection may not be used,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: With respect, we are not proposing to get rid of architectural conservation areas.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Bill allows for the strategy of conservation of natural and built heritage and allows for having architectural conservation areas. The Bill allows for a strategy in respect of landscape but gets rid of landscape conservation areas. Saying it is seldom used does not stack up because every day we talk about parts of the legislation that are seldom used. Earlier, we spoke about part of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is just giving up on landscapes. I disagree strongly with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government is giving up on landscape conservation areas.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government plans to introduce any tax relief, or a reduction in local property tax, for residents who are also paying management fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16383/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 645. To ask the Minister for Health what financial supports are available for amputees who do not qualify for a medical card, who are required to pay extremely high costs upwards of €6,000 every few years for necessary prosthetics; the measures he will take to address this gap in supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16077/24]