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Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I propose to take Question Nos. 364 and 365 together. As part of its comprehensive response to the issue of unfinished or unoccupied estates, my Department has undertaken, with the co-operation of local authorities and other key stakeholders, a national inventory on a county by county basis to quantify, classify and map the various types of unfinished or unoccupied estates so as to facilitate...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Planning and Development Regulations 2010 were signed by Minister Gormley on 30 July 2010 and came into effect from 19 August 2010. The Regulations were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 24 August 2010. The 2010 Regulations updated the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 on foot of the sections 28 and 29 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 which was...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Section 59 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010, which amends section 180 of the Principal Act, includes a number of provisions related to unfinished estates. The reference to "owners or occupiers" is replaced with a reference to "owners". The effect of this is to provide that the planning authority must respond to a request for the taking-in-charge of an estate received...

Written Answers — Property Management Companies: Property Management Companies (5 Oct 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I refer to the reply to Question No. 1498 of 29 September, 2010, which sets out the position on this matter.

Seanad: Tax Collection (30 Sep 2010) See 1 other result from this debate

Ciarán Cuffe: The Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 gave effect to the Government's budget 2009 decision to introduce an annual charge on non-principal private residences. The charge was set at €200 and liability for it falls, in the main, on owners of rental, holiday and vacant properties. The intention behind the introduction of the charge was not only to help close the gap between expenditure and...

Economic Strategy: Motion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)

The Dail Divided: For the motion: 75 (Bertie Ahern, Dermot Ahern, Michael Ahern, Noel Ahern, Barry Andrews, Chris Andrews, Bobby Aylward, Niall Blaney, Áine Brady, Cyprian Brady, Johnny Brady, John Browne, Thomas Byrne, Pat Carey, Niall Collins, Margaret Conlon, Seán Connick, Brian Cowen, John Cregan, Ciar��n Cuffe, John Curran, Noel Dempsey, Jimmy Devins, Timmy Dooley,...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (30 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Department has facilities in place which allow staff to undertake work while away from the Department's offices, including the provision of laptops, remote access to its email systems and Blackberry devices, and is currently investigating the options for extending access to other Departmental systems in addition to email. Through these and similar measures I would expect to see most...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (29 Sep 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 504, 506 and 507 together. The moratorium on recruitment and promotion was introduced by the Government at the end of March 2009. The moratorium allows for certain general exemptions in the Education and Health Sectors for the filling of certain key posts as well as for the Local Authorities in relation to certain key posts. Information in relation to the...

Written Answers — National Cycle Policy: National Cycle Policy (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Census 2006 showed that nationally 36,306 people cycled to work, representing a mode share of 2%. Since then, initiatives such as Workplace Travel Planning, the Green Schools Programme, new cycle routes and Dublin City Council's Dublinbikes Scheme have encouraged and supported cycling. Next year Census 2011 will provide a figure for cycling numbers and mode share, and I would expect to see...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: My Department is currently finalising the draft Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Spatial Planning and National Roads. These draft Guidelines are aimed at ensuring that roads planning and policy, and development planning and management processes are appropriately and effectively aligned, in order to guide development to the most suitable locations to maximise the investment in the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1417 and 1490 together. I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 537 and 538 of 8 July 2010. Each planning authority is required to include details of contributions received in that year, together with information on how the contributions have been expended, in the statutory annual accounts of the authority. A new requirement was introduced for the financial...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Ciarán Cuffe: Meath County Council undertook, in their County Development Plan 2007-2013, to explore the designation of a Landscape Conservation Area, pursuant to section 204 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010, in respect of the Tara and Skryne areas. Furthermore, the County Meath Heritage Plan 2007-2011 also includes an action to seek to pilot the development and adoption of a Landscape...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: As stated in the reply to Question No. 489 of 29 June 2010, I have no function in the matter. The are no provisions in planning legislation or the Retail Planning Guidelines regarding the issue in question, and I do not intend to amend the Retail Planning Guidelines in this regard. However, in certain circumstances and in the case of new buildings the Building Regulations require the...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The making, reviewing and varying of a local area plan is a reserved function of the elected members of the planning authority for the area. The statutory consultation process for such plans is set out in the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended; any person can make a submission on a draft plan, including in relation to zoning issues, to the planning authority within the statutory...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Under the Derelict Sites Act 1990, local authorities are required to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does not become or continue to be a derelict site. To this end, they have been given substantial powers under the Act in relation to any such sites, including powers to require specified...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 was enacted on 26 July 2010. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 26, 28, 29, 37, 42, 46, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73 and 81 of the Act were commenced with effect from 19 August 2010. Sections 32 and 33 of the Act were commenced with effect from 28 September 2010. The remaining provisions of the Act will be commenced as soon as possible....

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Settlement strategies adopted by planning authorities as part of their development plans, including strategies in relation to housing in rural areas, are required to be in accordance with the provisions of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 — 2010, and with national planning policy as set out in the 2005 Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Sustainable Rural Housing. The granting of...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: My Department has sought legal advice from the Chief State Solicitor's Office on issues concerning the property aspects of this application that will need to be clarified before it can be progressed to a determination.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Infrastructure: Telecommunications Infrastructure (29 Sep 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: My Department is participating on a working group with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Commission for Energy Regulation to consider the recommendations in the report, Next Generation Broadband — Gateway to a Knowledge Ireland, which was published in June 2009. One of the recommendations in the document is that new premises in Ireland will be required...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Ciarán Cuffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1507, 1509 and 1511 together. A range of legislative reforms in the area of enforcement were introduced in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010, including: removal of the 7-year time-limit for taking enforcement proceedings against unauthorised extractive industry developments; an increase in the minimum fines for persons convicted under section...