Results 3,521-3,540 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 44: In page 39, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “7.The Minister shall, within seven months of the passing of this Act, lay before the Oireachtas and relevant Committee a report on the regulations required consequent on the commencement of this Act and providing a detailed timeline for the enactment of each section of the Act.”. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That would be great.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister of State was in a position to share the tabular form of the commencement schedule with the committee, we would all appreciate that. I have some follow-on questions. The first is to help us understand the process. The Minister of State has set out an ambitious schedule for commencement of the various Parts of the Bill. He might commence sections, but there will be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the timelines?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And the transitional arrangements?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was a slightly different one. Do any of the Minister of State's officials actually know off the top of their heads the number of SPPRs? Perhaps they could share it with us. If they do not have that information to hand, then do not worry about it. I could not expect everybody to remember the total number. My question was a different one. The legislation, if it passes as is,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is becoming increasingly unpopular with the officials every time he promises to give us a note on something.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not even ask for a note, but when we come to that section of the Bill, perhaps the Minister of State will give us an update orally. That would be very helpful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State said a ministerial action plan is being prepared.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That sounds really interesting and something our committee would probably be interested in getting sight of when it is ready. Would such a thing be possible? Is this something the Minister of State can take back to the Minister?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will now speak to amendment No. 45. Again, this is just an opportunity to raise four very important areas which many of us had hoped would be included in this Bill. During the interactions we had in the committee last year when Maria Graham and the team come in to speak to us, we had flagged some issues we thought should be part of the review and ultimately part of the Bill. I was also...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through each of the issues. I am not clear what, if anything, the Minister of State is proposing in respect of a CPO. He confirmed to us what we already knew, that what was in the Bill was broadly a restatement of what was there previously. That does not address the two key problems, namely, the CPO process is too long and too expensive. In many cases, a public agency does not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To address the issues in reverse order, in June, it will be five years since that expert report on Traveller accommodation was published. The core planning recommendations of that report have not been implemented. The committee spent considerable time engaging with the three members of the panel and with the Minister to ensure that Part 8 and section 183 planning permissions and land...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The temporary exemption in Part 5 has nothing to do with Traveller accommodation. It is for a completely different purpose. While some local authorities, including my own, use it to advance a much-needed Traveller accommodation project, that project would have progressed just as well and within the same period of time under the old Part 8 because our local authority would not have blocked...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will move on to amendment No. 171, the next one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.