Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage

2:10 pm

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Yes briefly, although I will not repeat the points I made earlier. I will call a formal roll-call vote on this, although I will not call for a similar vote on all the other sections under this chapter. However, I want to put it on record at this point that I am deeply concerned with this overall chapter. I therefore want to take the opportunity to register a vote against the chapter by opposing this one section. I listened to the Minister of State, Deputy English, earlier but he has not answered any of the questions I raised either here or on Second Stage. On that basis I am very concerned that in attempting to solve a genuine problem we are creating a whole series of other difficulties within our planning system that I think we will come to regret further down the line. On that basis I will press my opposition to this section.