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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not make sense without the other amendments before it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In effect, amendment No. 476 is about implementation of the development plan. It is also a kind of a monitoring exercise. My experience as a former local councillor and that of other local councillors is that there is a lot in development plans that are passed that does not come to fruition in terms of different policies and objectives. It will not always be feasible for all of it to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is exactly the point. The thrust of this Bill is that it gives considerable powers to the Minister, who can issue national planning statements, give all sorts of direction to local authorities and planning authorities through that. There are considerable powers for the Office of the Planning Regulator as a kind of enforcer to ensure the wishes of the Minister are adhered to. However,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 303: In page 97, lines 32 and 33, to delete “insofar as is practicable”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 305: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) Ireland’s climate targets as set under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 306: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) each local authority’s Traveller accommodation programme.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 307: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) (I) where the planning authority’s functional area includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (II) where the region includes a Baile...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 309: In page 98, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(vi) (I) where the planning authority’s functional area includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, the protection of the linguistic and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, my question is actually related to head 52. It is not about this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 316: In page 100, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(i) (i) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, a statement demonstrating the manner in which the plan is consistent with any relevant Language Plan...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This point raised is also an important one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 331: In page 100, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(7) The written statement referred to in subsection (2) shall allow for the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing as defined in Parts 2 and 3 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair and welcome the Minister of State. I was not satisfied with the response I received previously from the other Minister of State on this. All of us know there are huge issues with Traveller accommodation. I read out some direct quotes from children living in very poor conditions in Traveller-specific accommodation. Those were taken from a report done by the Ombudsman for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: But the amendments are directly related to that review.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask about the Part 8 exemption for social housing to which the Minister of State referred in his response. Deputy Ó Broin is correct that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, made no mention of Traveller-specific housing when he was putting forward a rationale for the exemption. Can the Minister of State let us know how many Traveller-specific homes have been delivered under the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was asking how many Traveller-specific homes-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that the Part 8 exemption?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not accept the responses of the Minister of State to the previous amendments and I will certainly press some of them. I do not think the legislation is strong enough and it is not okay just to say it is down to the progressiveness or otherwise of the local Traveller accommodation consultative committees. The very reason we have the expert report is that the process is failing. Even...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Rents have almost doubled in the past decade, house prices are so high that we have collapsing rates of home ownership and unprecedented numbers of people in their 20s and 30s are still living with their parents or in box rooms. We can all agree that we have an affordability crisis. This amendment’s measure works in other countries and helps make housing more affordable. How on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is the point that I am trying to make. What the councillors will do in their housing strategies is they will say they need enough land for, let us say, 10,000 affordable homes in their area over the next ten years, some of which will be affordable rental or cost-rental and affordable purchase, but then what happens? It is fine to have a housing strategy and say this is their assessment...