Alan Kelly

Caretaker environment minister Alan Kelly has been expounding this week on a number of key achievements on the housing front.

The review group, set up by environment minister Alan Kelly to “ensure that An Bord Pleanála would be best positioned to fulfil its legislative mandate” in relation to an expected increase in construction, has made more than 100 recommendations involving changes in the way the agency carries out...

The Environment Department insisted this week that its planning, architectural, housing and surveyor advisers were satisfied that new minimum standards for flats were feasible and could be implemented by planning authorities.

Environment minister Alan Kelly has rebutted claims that European Union environmental regulations on habitat protection prevented river dredging and other flood defence work which could have lessened the impact of the recent floods.