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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, that is fine.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Let me see. They are kind of listed separately. The next one is amendment No. 892, which is the Cathaoirleach’s, and then amendment No. 895.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Just bear with me a second. I refer to amendments Nos 892 and 898. Together we can do amendments Nos. 892, 903 and 905.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will get that to the committee tomorrow.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I make the point to Deputy Duffy that the inclusion of community-led housing in the Affordable Housing Act was a significant step forward. To be fair to the Deputy, that came directly from him and the Chair. I met with community-led housing organisations. It is the first time we have included that definition in legislation. That, in itself, is very important. That said, with the new...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, that is what we want. I will not go on about it, but the Deputy is aware of the job we had to do. There were lots of different housing bodies on paper which were all well-meaning but effectively defunct. That is why the AHBRA regime is much better. Community land trusts would be covered because of the work done under the Affordable Housing Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are on amendment No. 895. It seeks to insert after "situated" the following: "...and the Local Authority’s own Housing Needs Demand Assessment and any other data that may be available," etc. On 18 December 2020, a ministerial letter to local authorities was issued outlining the Department’s works on the structural housing demand in Ireland and our housing supply targets,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I can move on to amendment No. 896, which is in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Which one?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, that is fine.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On amendment No. 896, we had a long discussion. To make a general point, I have visited new social housing estates over the past four years and noted they were of top quality. Even in mixed developments, there was rightly no distinction between social, private and affordable housing. Unquestionably, there have been some legacy issues. I have encountered them myself but the issue simply...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: What price were they?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: To be helpful on the tenant in situ, and that is not part of this-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Tenant in situ is something new I brought in whereby private properties are purchased where there are HAP tenants and-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I had done it and was doing it and it has worked really well. We are continuing it right the way through the course of this year. Loads of Deputies, including Deputy Boyd Barrett - I am not breaking his confidence - raise certain matters that will come up and we look at them. The local authorities are under no illusion that this scheme will continue this year, and we want it to continue....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Well, for as long as I am there, but, in fairness, that is a new scheme-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: But-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We had this debate up and down a few weeks ago-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----and my position on it has not changed. We can open it all up again-----