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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.

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: I move amendment No. 11:In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:"(2) An application for a strategic housing development under this section, other than for the alteration of an existing planning permission granted under section 34 of the Act of 2000, may not be made by a prospective applicant who holds a planning permission for over 100 housing units in the same local...

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: In respect of those of us who are new to select committees, and obviously it is not my intention to roll call votes on these amendments, what is the procedure?

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: Is that recorded or is it-----

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: That is called a voice vote?

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: I move amendment No. 12:In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:"(2) An application for a strategic housing development under this section, other than for the alteration of an existing planning permission granted under section 34 of the Act of 2000, may not be made by a prospective applicant who holds a planning permission for over 100 housing units in the same local...

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: I move amendment No. 13:In page 7, line 23, after "Chapter" to insert "including a public consultation thereon, which shall not be less than 4 weeks in duration".

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: I move amendment No. 14:In page 7, line 25, after "review" to insert the following:"and a summary and collation of all the responses received during the public consultation in subparagraph (i)".

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: I move amendment No. 15:In page 7, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:"(ii) no such order shall be made by the Minister unless it is approved by both houses of the Oireachtas, and following a further period of review and public consultation on the report provided by the Minister,".

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: Does amendment No. 16 automatically fall if the proposers are not here?

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: I move amendment No. 17:In page 8, line 8, to delete "as amended." and substitute the following:"as amended and also further to the following additional requirements: (a) a new screening for Environmental Impact Assessment in accordance with section 176B of the Act of 2000, in relation to the class of development under reconsideration, and/or any element of the development either...

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: I am looking for a greater level of public participation and participation by interested bodies such as environmental NGOs and on a broader range of issues. It is quite a detailed amendment-----

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: -----but it is trying to detail those.

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: The logic of the amendment is that larger housing developments have a larger environmental impact, for example. The legislation deals with those larger applications.