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Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the Bill and we were very keen to get to have this brief discussion because it is a significant change to the Foreshore Act. It is important to remember that this legislation is about 90 years old, from 1933, and for all of those 90 years people were working on the basis of an understanding of the definition of the foreshore which, it subsequently transpires,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 7, to delete lines 3 to 19 and substitute the following: “ “105A.(1) Where no chairperson stands appointed under section 105 the Government may, subject to subsections (2) and (3), appoint an interim chairperson for a period of not more than 6 months, from persons who— (a) are, or were formerly, established civil servants for the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister disowns his own office's media briefing so quickly, he will end up damaging his relationship-----

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----both with journalists and with his own staff, and that would be terrible for Government communications, although it might mean we would get the official communication rather than the confused briefings that often seem to come from his direction.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us be clear. Where a manager uses this process, Part 8 will be suspended. Nobody on this side of the House has suggested the Minister is suspending Part 8 in all circumstances. My understanding of Deputy Nash’s point was clear. Where a manager opts to use this provision, Part 8 will be suspended and the 20-week process dispensed with. Just so the Minister is clear, that is our...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are terribly understanding.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Come on.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said earlier, our party has always said that we would look favourably on a proposal which was intended to and would have the effect of accelerating and increasing the delivery of social and affordable housing. However, I have to say that when media briefings about this particular amendment emerged, there was an awful lot of confusion . There was talk of changes to zoning, ministerial...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that section 6 does not guarantee what the Minister has outlined. Section 6 would allow for that, but also allow for other options. That is our concern. I refer to the unanimously agreed committee pre-legislative scrutiny report. While our preference is for a reformed panel system, recommendation 10 in our report states that, should the legislation proceed with the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I again put on record our party's strong opposition to these sections of the Bill, dealing with changes to An Bord Pleanála. One of the most significant proposals the Minister brought forward this week is not actually an emergency measure at all. I fully accept there is urgency regarding an interim chair. I would not have proposed the interim chair in the manner that the Minister has,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want record my extreme disappointment at what is essentially the cutting short of pre-legislative scrutiny of this significant legislation following the Minister’s decision to introduce the Bill in the Seanad. I do not accept that the emergency amendments which the Minister wants to bring forward had be done in this way. They could have been attached to another Bill and I will...

Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday on the floor of the Dáil, I made reference to a media report on the death of a young woman sleeping rough in my constituency. Subsequently, the organisation that put the information in the public domain has withdrawn it, pending further investigation. As the Minister knows, the issue of the deaths of people experiencing homelessness is one I have been raising with him on a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Legal Cases (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of threats of legal action and or legal cases that have been brought against the State by energy investors between 1995 and 2021 including international arbitration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if any update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that only consultant prescriptions for cariban for patients with hyperemesis gravidarium are reimbursable; and if this will be reviewed given that most pregnant persons present to their GP with symptoms in advance of appointments with their maternity consultants. [62395/22]

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, I had a phone conversation with an incredibly distraught family in County Kildare. Their son Wayne is sleeping tonight in a tent in County Meath. Wayne suffers from very extreme mental health challenges in his life and he has been homeless for about two years. Since I and my colleague Deputy O'Rourke have been working with this family, we have found that there is simply no...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the decision by domestic waste collection operators to increase their standing charges and lift fees; if he is concerned of the impact of these increases; and if he intends to take steps to prevent or mitigate these increased charges particularly for vulnerable and low-income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out a list of all Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bills introduced and passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas since 2016; and if he will provide a short summary of each Act in tabular form. [62257/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department intends to review and change current regulations to include a specific percentage of wheelchair liveable housing. [62291/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (13 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications by the Teaching Council; if she will clarify that there is only one member of staff processing overseas applications; and if further resources might be provided in order to increase the processing of applications given the current shortage of teachers in certain areas. [61913/22]