Grangegorman Development Agency Act, 2005

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• Citation: IR No. 21/2005

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Number 21 of 2005

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GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020

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This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), enacted 14 October 2020, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), made 20 October 2020, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

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Number 21 of 2005

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GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020

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Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Roads Act 2015 (14/2015)

• Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (11/2013)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (10/2011)

• Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (24/2010)

• Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 (15/2008)

All Acts up to and including Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), enacted 14 October 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020)

• Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011)

• Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005 (Establishment Day) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 252 of 2006)

All statutory instruments up to and including Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), made 20 October 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

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Number 21 of 2005

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GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Acts Referred to
Borrowing Powers of Certain Bodies Act 1996	1996, No. 22
Companies Acts 1963 to 2003
Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992	1992, No. 15
European Parliament Elections Act 1997	1997, No. 2
Harbours Acts 1946 to 1976
Health Act 2004	2004, No. 42
Housing Act 1966	1966, No. 21
Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998	1998, No. 34
Industrial Development Act 1993	1993, No. 19
Local Government Act 2001	2001, No. 37
National Development Finance Agency Act 2002	2002, No. 29
Planning and Development Act 2000	2000, No. 30
Urban Renewal Act 1986	1986, No. 19
Vocational Education Act 1930	1930, No. 29

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Number 21 of 2005

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GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020

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AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AREA IN GRANGEGORMAN, DUBLIN AS A LOCATION FOR EDUCATION, HEALTH AND OTHER FACILITIES, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BODY TO BE KNOWN AS GNÍOMHAIREACHT FORBARTHA GHRÁINSEACH GHORMÁIN, OR IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, THE GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, TO DEFINE ITS FUNCTIONS, TO AMEND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2000 AND THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGENCY ACT 2002 AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.

[11th July, 2005]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

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Functions transferred and references construed (21.10.2020) by Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), arts. 2, 3(1)(a), (2) and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4-8.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Department of Education and Skills contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Education and Skills -

(a) by or under the Acts specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, and

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are transferred to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Minister for Education and Skills contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

SCHEDULE

Article 3

Part 1

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Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005 (No. 21 of 2005)

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PART 1

Preliminary and General

Short title.

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1.—This Act may be cited as the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005.

Interpretation.

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2.—(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

“Agency” means Grangegorman Development Agency established under section 8;

“committee” means a committee established under section 20;

“company” means a company within the meaning of the Companies Acts 1963 to 2003;

“Enterprise Ireland” means the body established by the Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998;

“establishment day” means the day appointed by the Minister under section 5 to be the establishment day for the purposes of this Act;

“functions” includes powers and duties, and references to the performance of functions include, as respects powers and duties, references to the exercise of the powers and the carrying out of the duties;

“Grangegorman neighbourhood” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4;

“Grangegorman site” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3;

“IDA” means the body established by the name of “Industrial Development Agency (Ireland)” by the Industrial Development Act 1993;

“Minister” means the Minister for Education and Science;

“the appropriate Minister” means any Minister of the Government (other than the Minister) who, having regard to the Ministerial functions vested in that Minister, in the opinion of the Minister might be concerned with or interested in the matter in question;

“remuneration” includes allowances for expenses, benefits-in-kind and superannuation;

“statutory body” means—

(a) the Health Service Executive established under the Health Act 2004 (hereinafter referred to as “the Health Service Executive”),

(b) a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001,

(c) a Minister of Government,

F1[ (d) City of Dublin Education and Training Board,]

(e) the Dublin Institute of Technology established under the Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992,

(f) any other board or body established by or under statute;

“strategic plan” shall be construed in accordance with section 12;

“superannuation benefits” means pensions, gratuities and other allowances payable on resignation, retirement or death.

F2[ ‘transport strategy’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 12 of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008.]

(2) (a) In this subsection, a reference to a “thoroughfare” includes any avenue, bridge, drive, high water mark, place, river, road, row, street or wall.

(b) In Schedule 1—

(i) a reference to a line drawn along any...