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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is only being switched on between June and September. Will the Tánaiste or the Minister ask Irish Water to switch on the ultraviolet treatment of discharges into Dublin Bay for the entire year?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the measures he is taking to support the taxi industry and taxi drivers and assist its recovery following Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the lessons he has learned in the course of the pandemic with regard to maintaining staffing levels in key areas of the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31412/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I missed Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's contribution but I suspect our amendment, No. 195, is in a similar vein in that we believe the LDA, rather than being a mechanism to open up the public land bank to private interests, should be moving in the exact opposite direction. It should aggressively seek to bring privately-owned land suitable for housing that is not being used, but is being hoarded...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the last point about the role of the local authorities and the disposal of land, to be honest, the Minister is being somewhat disingenuous. If one takes Shanganagh, it was the non-elected executive that proposed the transfer of that site to the LDA. It was Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the usual suspects, which supported it. We opposed that transfer because we had been campaigning for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 195: In page 40, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(4) The Agency may compulsorily purchase relevant private land suitable for public and affordable housing.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to hear the Minister's rationale for giving himself the power to exempt LDA developments from Part V.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it does. It explicitly does that. If the Minister wants to explain-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It gives the Minister the power-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can explain it to me if he wants but as I read it, it gives him the power to exempt a development from Part V. Potentially, we could have no social housing on a LDA site.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 73(2) states "The Government may, by order, at the request of the Minister, exempt relevant public land from the provisions of this Part where the land" and then gives a series of examples. The term "this Part" is the one where Part V is applicable, in the section above it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is saying that the reference in section 73(1) "where applicable" refers not to Part V but to Part 9, is that what the Minister is saying?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I got it wrong, I am happy to admit it. The Minister is saying that this Bill does not empower him to get rid of the Part V requirement.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wanted to make the more general point about social housing. The Minister said we will align the Bill on affordable housing with the LDA Bill and so on, that there will be a series of amendments to that effect. Will he clarify what "social housing" is? I refer to the eligibility criteria and particularly the income thresholds and what the Minister envisages. There is a problem in...