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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Section 2 of the Planning and Development Act includes the definition of a house that includes apartments. Do duplexes fall outside of that definition?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am the Social Democrats' Whip and I was not spoken to. I appreciate this has been done for practical reasons so I was just asking about it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Do duplexes come within the scope of the definition to which the Deputy referred?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that. If duplexes do fall within the definition yet state houses and duplexes but not apartments, then that is unhelpful to say the least. I appreciate that this is in the definition in section 2 of the Planning and Development Act but good legislation should be clear and unambiguous as much as possible. Good legislation should not have to involve wording like this that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 40: In page 11, line 6, after "houses" to insert ", apartments".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 41: In page 16, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including "only" in line 4 down to and including "34" in line 6 and substitute "be made public by publishing it online on the planning authority website within five working days".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 46: In page 17, line 15, to delete “16 weeks” and substitute “five weeks”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 51: In page 18, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 28 (Ministerial guidelines) of Planning and Development Act 2000 18. Section 28 of Planning and Development Act 2000 is amended— (a) by the deletion of subsection (1C) (substituted by the Planning and Development(Amendment) Act 2018), and (b) by the insertion of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendments Nos. 46 and 48 are on the interim measures. Amendment No. 46 seeks to reduce the timeframe from 16 weeks, or four months, to five weeks. The intention is to limit the further damage that can be done through the strategic housing development process and the interim measures that will potentially drag the strategic housing development process well into next year. I do not believe...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I think there was a legitimate expectation that the SHDs would be wound up in October just past, so people were on notice about that. The point has been well made that if this legislation goes through, there will be a new system for people to be able to go into for large-scale planning applications, so it is not that there is not somewhere for new entrants to go and it is not as if they are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 48: In page 17, to delete lines 17 to 32.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 42: In page 16, to delete lines 8 to 25.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding the point made about having biodiversity officers and conservation officers and the range of different skills and expertise that are so valuable in local authorities, when those roles and skills are missing the cost incurred from their absence is evident. Conversely, when they are in place it is possible to see the great value brought to bear by a small number of individuals with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of not being able to roll out biodiversity officers to every local authority straightaway, for some of the smaller local authorities, has consideration been given to perhaps providing them on a shared basis until we can get to the point of having a biodiversity officer in every local authority? Similarly, for the other competencies and disciplines, where that cannot be done for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have four follow-up questions. First, the Minister commented on mica, the industry levy and the measures there. It is important that the Minister has announced that a national building control regulator will be brought in. It is long overdue, it is important and it is needed to supplement the work of local authorities in enforcement. I ask the Minister to give us a timeline on that. Is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to quickly clarify one point. The Minister mentioned 1,200 Housing First tenancies. Is that 1,200 new and additional Housing First tenancies over and above the almost 700 in place now? Is the Minister talking about accelerated delivery so that we will get them between now and 2026?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have two questions for the Minister of State, on biodiversity and electoral reform. First, on electoral reform, is the regulation of election posters still on the Minister of State's radar? Will he be considering the Electoral Act 1992, specifically section 111, which under certain circumstances requires people in the polling station to take an oath or make an affirmation under a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all of our guests for attending. I especially want to thank Ms Sherry and Dr. O'Connor for the work they have done in Cork and nationally in terms of sparking a valuable conversation on this. I would encourage them to keep up the work they are doing. There is nothing more frustrating and anger-making for people than seeing vacant, derelict buildings that are not in use, especially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I only wanted the perspective of one local authority on the issue. We might hear from Ms Murphy and if there is time at the end, we might hear from the representatives of Waterford City and County Council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there still time to hear from the representatives of Waterford City and County Council?