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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am quite happy to have the additional information.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anybody who uses the quarterly RTB index knows it has sub local authority areas. That information is already available up to quarter three. There is no reason that those areas could not be included now on the basis of those sub local authority areas. I also suspect, and the Minister can correct me later if I am wrong, that the RTB has the raw data and all it would require is a sufficient...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy was in Cabinet for a period of time.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: This group of amendments relates to the Government's strategy for the rental sector launched this week. As we have no other formal opportunity to discuss the strategy, I want to open my comments on these amendments by making some observations on it. Given the fact we were led to believe this was going to be a comprehensive strategy for the fundamental reform of the private rental sector over...

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Was there political interference in the publication of those amendments?

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of Deputy Micheál Martin's proposal, Fianna Fáil knew the detail of the so-called rent predictability proposals before they were launched. Fianna Fáil also knew that the amendments by the Minister were going to be tabled and that we would get them this week. We knew this for weeks, yet at no stage did I hear any objection from Deputy Cowen, the party's housing...

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and is now trying to present itself as being opposed to a proposition that it was actually going to agree to all along. Regarding the Order of Business, we have not seen the full set of amendments for this Bill. We were told by the Bills Office that they would be available at 7 p.m yesterday but they have yet to be published. I would like to know why. Did the Government block the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the information of the Chairman, amendment No. 72 has been ruled out of order by the Bills Office.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“ “The Aarhus Convention” means the Convention on Access to Information, Public Prticipation In Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters done at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998;”.”. As this amendment is connected with amendments Nos. 17 and 125, I would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment makes no sense if it is to be discussed separately from amendment No. 17.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The substantive discussion will be on amendment No. 17. It would, therefore, be proper to discuss amendment No. 2 with that amendment. It would be quite academic if amendment No. 2 was discussed on its own.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support amendment No. 3. I do not want to repeat the arguments I made on the Second Stage debate, but at that point I had raised my concern that the evidence presented to members suggested there were alternative ways of shortening the length of time it would take for the 15 large planning applications that were cited on the spreadsheet to be processed. There are on average 33 weeks spent...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State has studiously avoided answering my three questions and I shall ask him again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I said the following on Second Stage. We provided data for 15 planning applications and I accept that 83 weeks is far too long. I read the breakdown or evidence provided by the Department's officials and three questions arose. Did the Department consider shortening the pre-planning process through legislation? If it did then the length of the delay would be dramatically reduced from 33...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: My amendment No. 5 is probably rendered obsolete by amendment No. 7, but I would like the Minister and his officials to clarify that. My concern with lines 22 and 23 under "strategic housing development" mean that by including the "or" it was possible through an unintended consequence to allow a mixed-use residential development which would have had less than 100 units to be included under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes briefly, although I will not repeat the points I made earlier. I will call a formal roll-call vote on this, although I will not call for a similar vote on all the other sections under this chapter. However, I want to put it on record at this point that I am deeply concerned with this overall chapter. I therefore want to take the opportunity to register a vote against the chapter by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the last session the Minister talked about not bypassing local authorities. The problem is that the role of local authorities is being diminished by this legislation, though the role of elected members is not being diminished because they do not, as the Minister said, have a direct role. The local authority will no longer be the primary body responsible for taking the decision. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to amendment No. 10, an issue raised in the Seanad was the loss of revenue to local authorities from the loss of the fees. Is there a plan in the regulations for local authorities to be compensated from the overall fees?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to amendments Nos. 11 and 12, if I am a developer and I have a live planning approval in my local authority area or an adjoining area for 100 units, I do not see how any of the justifications the Minister of State has given would warrant me wanting a separate planning application to be fast tracked. Poor market conditions would affect my existing planning permission as it would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Surely €200 million over three years would sort that out for them.