Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It might be helpful to read the notes on both as they are relatively short.

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 into housing units. The amendment is on foot of a recommendation by the Oireachtas joint committee on housing, stemming from the prelegislative scrutiny process ,to include an analysis of vacant and derelict homes as part of the housing strategy.

I will turn to amendments Nos. 365 and 367 tabled by Deputy Matthews, which seek to amend the requirement that a housing strategy includes a statement of measures to prioritise compact urban development sites for residential use or a mixture of residential and other uses, so as this requirement would also include “brownfield urban sites” and to add a new requirement that the strategy include a statement of measures to activate and facilitate the regeneration and reuse of vacant land, or derelict structures. Section 42(2)(a) of the Bill includes a requirement for the setting out of a strategy for the prioritisation and measures to facilitate compact urban growth and includes a reference to derelict and underutilised lands. This is considered to be appropriate and sufficient and the amendments are not considered to be necessary.

That is about amendments Nos. 364 and 372. We have dealt with amendments Nos. 353, 359, 363, 365 and 367. I am in the Chair's gift.