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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will not get this done.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it an offence for a landlord to seek sex in lieu of rent or to advertise to seek sex in lieu of rent and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. It was in December 2021 that Ann Murphy, a young reporter with the Irish Examiner, broke the scandal that has...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 141: In page 61, line 12, after “cultural” to insert “, Irish language community”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 143: In page 61, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(vi) compliance with the State’s European Union obligations for waste management, water quality, air quality, nature conservation and restoration, and reduction of green house gas emissions,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 147: In page 61, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(iv) preserve the Gaeltacht settlement patterns in which the Irish language has survived as a community language in the case of Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 148: In page 61, to delete lines 19 to 23 and substitute the following: “(d) conservation of the environment and its amenities, including— (i) landscape, landscape features, including hedgerows, (ii) ecology, (iii) biodiversity, (iv) water resources, (v) archaeological, historic, architectural and natural heritage, and the establishment of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 150: In page 61, line 19, after “conservation” to insert “and restoration”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 152: In page 61, line 23, after “architectural” to insert “, cultural, linguistic”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 154: In page 61, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(e) promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations and monitoring them within the life of the plan;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 158: In page 61, between line 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This section deals with the national planning framework and the related subsequent sections deal with the review. In yesterday’s response to the decision to defer the publication of the draft revised national planning framework, with which I have no issue whatsoever, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, outlined that new statistical information was awaited from the final report of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for that information. It was the same information that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, gave us yesterday.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have no issue with the information as presented, but the Minister of State has not addressed my question, which related to section 19 specifically. Let me explain it with a little more clarity. When the ESRI did its study in 2019, which was based on the census figures from 2016, the terms of reference for that work were not decided by the ESRI, but by the Department. I know this because...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is my final point. This is a fundamental point. Section 19(3), which the Minister of State refers to, talks about "identification of nationally strategic development requirements as respects cities, towns and rural areas in relation to employment". It goes on to refer to "future population change, and associated housing". That is the problem. The current national planning framework...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to delay in any way.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a fundamental point. My understanding is that when the Housing Commission submits its final report to the Minister, it will give a figure for the first time ever of unmet pent-up demand - separate to future population growth and new household formation - from the existing population. My problem is that it is not a requirement of the NPF or the NPF review. The reason that is a problem...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one tiny question and then I am done. So that we are completely clear, is the Minister of State saying on the record of this committee that the ESRI report that will underpin the NPF review will include a calculation of unmet pent-up housing demand? Is the Minister of State saying absolutely it will be in that report?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a "Yes" or "No" question.