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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I was at another meeting, so I apologise if I repeat a question. We have just concluded our pre-legislative scrutiny report on the local government (directly elected mayor with executive functions in Limerick city and county) Bill 2021. To be fair, the pre-legislative scrutiny report included a wide range of suggestions. However, it was very clear that the changes that were needed, even to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: If there is time, I would like to turn to the issue of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020. The committee's pre-legislative scrutiny report is with the Minister of State. One of the issues we did not really have time to develop, due the time pressures of the pre-legislative scrutiny process, was a belief by many members of the committee that social media is fundamentally changing our electoral...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: At yesterday's meeting of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, informed us that more than 90% of people who had initially claimed the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, have now signed off that payment. There was also a great deal of discussion around the reduction in the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, in particular for the hospitality...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for affordable purchase, cost rental and social housing on the Kildonan lands, Finglas, Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59573/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy O'Callaghan has asked many of my questions with regard to those experiencing homelessness. I know we have made significant progress. There has been a more than 30% reduction in homelessness, but as we head into winter we are starting to see the number rising again. We need to ensure we keep on top of it. The Minister is doing that, but it would be interesting to hear a little more...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the SEAI National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Funding Programme will be awarded. [59486/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister for his response. I agree with him that residents want to have a say at the planning stage and the Bill grants them that. Being aware of proposed developments at the pre-planning stage give residents more of an opportunity to be prepared for that process. In particular, I ask the Minister to consider those sections that provide information at the pre-planning stage...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: This legislation is quite significant. Many Deputies will have spoken in the Chamber on the importance of this legislation, and how it effectively gives back to the local authorities by making them the first port of call for planning applications. The strategic housing development, SHD, process deprived local communities of the opportunity to contribute to the planning process and gave them...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I have a lot of sympathy with the points made, particularly around ensuring the primacy of the development plan and the issues around height being a national strategy. In my locality, areas we want to see developed for height and are identified for height have not seen that investment but areas where the city would not have preferred that height because it wanted to concentrate it in a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not sure why my amendment was not linked with this group but it touches on many of the same issues. I take the Minister at his word that he will look at what he can do on this issue, perhaps on Report Stage. If that allows us to progress to the next section and in the meantime reserve judgment to see what comes back on Report Stage then I would look forward to that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 33: In page 9, to delete lines 16 to 20 and substitute the following: “ “(1B) Where a planning authority receives an application for permission to which section 32A(1) applies it shall— (a) notify the elected members of the planning authority of the making of the application, of where the application is available for inspection, and of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendment No. 52 seeks a small change to the Title of the Bill. I believed the amendment might entitle me to speak first. It outlines exactly what the Minister refers to in respect of restoring the power to local authorities. It proposes a small cosmetic change.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Is the Minister encouraging me to press my amendment or suggesting that it be left at that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that the Minister will consider the matter for Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I would be far more confident in the Minister delivering for me than Deputy Ó Broin, if he were Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 44: In page 16, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Insertion of section 247A into Principal Act 16.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 247: "247A.(1) The planning authority shall convene a final consultation meeting within 4 weeks of receipt of the prospective applicant’s request, to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 52: In page 3, line 10, after “strategies” to insert the following: “to make provision for local government participation in assessing Large-scale Residential Development”.