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

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to pick up on amendment No. 129. The Minister of State's response is astonishing.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us think of the national planning framework as the development plan for the State, because that is what it is. It is a statutory plan that is produced following extensive consultation and deliberation to set in place not a set of policies but a set of legally binding planning requirements which then feed into the national development plan, exactly as the Chair said, but also have a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is legislation for 30 years so we have to think not just of this Government or the next Government, but of Governments after that. Let us imagine that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, is in opposition and that the extensive consultation process was not undertaken, or imagine that there was an extensive consultation process but the issues raised were fundamentally ignored by the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am conscious that we will not get this discussion finished this evening.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It really sounds like the Minister of State is trying to convince himself rather than us.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a very brief point of clarification. Deputy McAuliffe's defence of his colleagues is admirable. My point is a different one. I am not at all suggesting that members of Government parties should not criticise a Government. In fact, I would encourage them to do it as often as possible. My point is a fundamentally different one. I used the example of the Planning Regulator because...

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. 40: In page 38, to delete lines 21 to 24 and substitute the following: "(4) Where regulations are proposed to be made under subsection (1)of section 9, or under Part 9, or subsection (2)ofsection 412, or an order is proposed to be made under Part 9, a draft of the regulations or the draft order, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations or...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three follow-up questions. I will press the Minister of State for additional information on whether there is a timeline for the introduction of statutory timelines for the board. The answer may be "No" and that it is not possible at this stage but a sense of when the Government hopes or expects to introduce these would be helpful. Second, my question on staffing and resources was...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a lot of history to this particular issue. It is worth putting some of that on the record of the committee. This is not a minor amendment. I support the Chair's amendment. It is maybe a more elegant version of my own. We used to have national spatial plans. Those national spatial plans were not implementable because they were not statutory. Therefore, a decision was rightly...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am convinced. That is even more disappointing. Let me reiterate the point. Why do we have votes at the end of anything? The Minister of State is saying that there is such a great volume of consultation and involvement of various Members, although there is no structure involved in the Oireachtas whatsoever. Why do we have a vote at the end of anything? One reason is to ensure that it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the clarification with respect to duplexes. There are schemes, such as Millford Manor in Kildare, where the houses had the same defects as the apartments and there was a very serious fire. I ask the Minister to look at that in the context of the legislation. Has the Minister made up his mind yet on whether this will be an end-to-end scheme similar to the pyrite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that 79 applications have been received by the Department for the interim remediation scheme for apartment and duplex owners with Celtic tiger-era defects across 22 counties, representing almost 7,500 residential units. Will the Minister provide an update on where those application are at and when he expects owner management companies, OMCs, to be able to draw down the funding?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. With respect to fire safety, I would be interested to know if, even at this stage, he has an indication of how much expenditure is likely to be required for the applications and specifically when people will be able to draw down the money. I welcome the fact that decisions will be made soon. Regarding the legislation, does the Minister envisage an end-to-end scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House and he will have to correct the record.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You should not be allowed mislead the House, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stick to the question. What is the Minister going to do about record homelessness?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are you going to do about record homelessness? This is not a laughing matter, Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Smirking at such an important issue.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, Chair.