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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...for the repair and replacement of a tidal sluice gate and associated works at Pilmore, Youghal. The drainage and sluice at Pilmore were not functioning adequately and, therefore, properties and agricultural land were at risk from flooding during very high tides. These works were successfully completed in September 2023. The OPW also approved a minor works scheme application for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...flood mitigation works and coastal protection scheme to carry out a coastal erosion and risk management study. The core study area covers approximately 9.5 km of coastline from Youghal to Greenlands Strand or Ring Strand. This includes the specific area of concern and access to Pilmore Cottages. The study also forms part of the OPW's ongoing national pilot coastal monitoring survey...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...coastal monitoring survey programme. Between the Department of housing and our Department, we are looking at the overall issue of coastal erosion. I will revert to the Deputy definitively on the Land Commission aspect.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Island Communities (2 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: An Blascaod Mór is the largest island of the Blasket islands, an archipelago located off the coast of west Kerry. The island is a nationally significant heritage site due to the important literary and cultural output of its tiny community in the first half of the 20th century and the substantial collection of books – nearly 100 in all - that have been written about life on the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: State Properties (1 May 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ..., maintain and manage it in order to reduce cost to the Exchequer. In line with the above policy, the OPW has provided a list of its surplus vacant properties, including former Garda station properties, to the Land Development Agency, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and the relevant local...

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I join my colleague, the Cathaoirleach, in welcoming the Malaysian delegation, led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. bin Abdul, and the Malaysian ambassador to Ireland. I also welcome the former members of the Catalonian Parliament. They are all welcome to Ireland. As I told the Malaysian delegation, I hope the former members of the Catalonian Parliament get the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...give a commitment on this issue. I very much take on board what the Deputies have done to date. I see it as a partnership model. The Attorney General's office is the highest legal office in the land, the advice is being worked on and I will be meeting him very shortly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...first-hand for myself. I visited Lough Funshinagh on 12 April and have seen at first-hand the devastating impact the situation there is having for home owners and the community. The eight townlands that straddle Lough Funshinagh have lived in harmony with the lake for decades. The highest levels in the lake annually were typically 66 m above Ordnance Datum, mOD. The land, when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...scheme. Work on stage 2 with some environmental services, including bats and birds, got under way this winter. Discussions will involve operators of critical infrastructure and landowners whose lands will be needed as part of the scheme. The OPW and Cork County Council have also advanced their consideration of the best route for consent. The decision is due shortly. There are two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...with Grattan Road and Fr. Griffin would be provided protection by the construction of a quay wall along the Claddagh Basin and Nimmo's Pier. Flood defences along the property line of localised land and road-rising at Salthill will manage wave over-topping risk. There are potentially a number of intersecting projects at varying stages from concept to completion, including the Salthill...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The property referred to by the deputy was purchased by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (CPW) in 2006 on behalf of An Garda Síochána in relation to the Garda Training College in Templemore. The property consists of a period house, which is not in habitable condition and lands of 256 acres. The lands are made up of 160 acres of good grazing land and 96 acres of mixed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Emergency Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...) relating to the possible use of modular housing units to provide durable accommodation solutions. Those discussions considered the potential capacity of the modular manufacturing industry in Ireland to produce a product at scale and to the appropriate standard. In conjunction with the CIF and the modular manufacturing industry, the OPW developed an exemplar design and specification to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Office of Public Works (16 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...the historic Castletown estate. That remains OPW and Government policy. In 1997, 100 acres south of the house was acquired. The farmyard adjacent to the house was acquired in 2001. In 2006, lands associated with the Batty Lodge were acquired. Former Coillte lands to the north and east of the house were acquired in 2007. Since 2008, the OPW has reassembled 227 acres of the original...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (16 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...performed on the site are a key part of OPW’s overall function, and the site is a live workplace for OPW staff. In conjunction with adjoining properties outside of OPW ownership, the OPW lands at Jamestown Road have been identified by the Land Development Agency as having long term delivery potential for residential-led development and urban regeneration. The OPW continue...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendments Nos. 359 and 363, tabled by Deputy Matthews, the Chair, concern the requirement that a housing strategy must include, in relation to specified settlement sizes, an estimate of the land to be zoned for residential or mixed uses to accommodate the population and housing growth targets and ensure there is sufficient land zoned having regard to existing capacity and planned investment...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: .... Government amendments Nos. 364 and 372 insert an obligation into each of these sections to provide that a housing development strategy shall also include an analysis of vacant and derelict land or sites within the area and an estimation of the number of housing units that could be activated from the land or sites, as well as a strategy to activate vacant and derelict land or 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. 364: In page 103, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(c) an analysis of vacant and derelict land or sites within the area and an estimation of the number of housing units that could be activated from the land or sites; (d) a strategy to activate vacant and derelict land or sites into housing units;”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 44(5) states: ...subsection (3), subsection (4) or section 222 or 230 shall prevent any land zoned for residential use or ... other ... being developed exclusively for housing of the types referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) ... of 219. Has Deputy Ó Broin a specific question on that section?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In summary, there is nothing in essence in the legislation to prevent land which is owned for residential use being used for entirely social, affordable use. There is nothing to prevent that. That will come down to the housing strategies and assessment of local authorities.