Results 21-40 of 337 for long speaker:Steven Matthews

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...than that. We have got to move a hell of a lot further and a lot quicker. Where the objectives change in a development plan, it can be quite unfair on an applicant. These applications take a long time to prepare, all of the studies have to be done, and then they end up with a development plan changing objective midstream. That can come as a result of pressure on local councillors. We...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...landownership, land rights and access over many years. We have loads of old coach roads, nun’s paths and all of those kind of things that have been there for many years. Some of them have been there for so long that nobody really knows who has access to them. What we often see is a barrier going up and we have to start trawling through records going back maybe 200 or 300 years to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...765, 813, 836, 857, 878 to 880, inclusive, 912, 964, 972, 973, 975 to 978, inclusive, 1028 to 1035, inclusive, 1096, 1097, 1140 and 1184 are related and will be discussed together. This is quite a long grouping and I intend for us to go into private session at 2.55 p.m. to discuss the matter of meeting schedules.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...or the national marine planning framework. This is one I thought about for a while. I do not like to see permissions that are materially contravening planning because planning goes through a very long process and it is set out. However, if it is in furtherance of our climate objective, which has to be the imperative, and may not have been included in the development plan or may not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...to parliamentary privilege and, as such, they may not benefit from the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a person who is physically present. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: 503. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding special leave with pay for front-line healthcare workers who are suffering with long Covid; if a further extension or an alternative support scheme is being considered for those in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8766/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will have that vote then. I thank the Minister of State for his attendance this afternoon. I particularly want to thank his officials for another very long week.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I know this is an incredibly important aspect of the Bill. I can tell from the conversation how much study and research has been done and how important it is. We have been on it for quite a long time, so if everyone could be more concise with their contributions, I can give everyone time on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I see conditions requiring the provision of roads and I understand "roads" includes footpaths and cycleways. We have quite a long list of planning conditions that can be applied there but it does not jump out at me. You do want to be on the back foot when putting in a submission on a development plan to say you had requested a condition to be applied to optimise access to local transport...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...action plan to the definitions section. I do not have to tell the Minister of State that this is the fourth national biodiversity action plan. It is now on a statutory footing and has been legislated for. Long-term funding is in place so it can deliver on many of the actions in it. Does the Minister of State believe it is necessary, and I suggest it is, to insert in this section that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...and speeded up as well as Greystones Community College, which will provide a 1,000-pupil school. That will actually solve the school places issue in Greystones, Kilcoole and north Wicklow in the long term.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: It will be a long time before we get to vote on amendment No. 188.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...note provided in advance of the meeting. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his officials. I will read a quick note on privilege before we start. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or otherwise...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...the fare strategy recently, it is really welcome to see that equalisation whereby people are paying roughly the same fare, regardless of where they are travelling in the country. There has been a long legacy of historical issues in respect of how fares were applied over the years. It is good to see this being done countrywide. It is a complex issue and one of the key parts is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...relation to an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks. It is imperative that they comply with any such direction. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...commitment of a 2:1 expenditure on public transport over new roads. One of the most important things for rail projects is certainty of investment and budgets, as well as confidence. They are long projects which last decades or a century. An investment in rail is an asset that will serve us for decades but we need certainty to deliver, design, build and maintain those projects. For...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...to an identifiable person or entity, they will be directed to discontinue their remarks and it is imperative that they comply with any such direction. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official, either by name or in such a way as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...a reality to it between the planning, tendering, the feasibility, getting the finance together and the boots on the ground. We have a bit of work to do to explain to people why a process takes so long. Often, people say "the planning process". That is planning with a small "p". It is planning the entire thing from start to finish, from concept to turning the key, not the Planning and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: The suggestion then is that, because it might take a long time to adjudicate on the price or whether it was undue hardship on the landlord, etc., the tenants end up living with the resulting stress for as long as this situation continues and, in a way, this can almost encourage people to say they will get out because they cannot be living with that kind of situation.