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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Oh, on the utility front. Sorry. On the utilities side of things, and getting back to Deputy McAuliffe's amendments, I have already said that, specifically to try to understand what their concern or issue is relating to this section, we will engage with them again. To be clear with people, we have engaged with all stakeholders across the board, including public utilities. We will do that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I get the point being made. I need to engage with them to work that through with them and we will come back on Report Stage-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: For absolute clarity's sake-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----subsection 98(2) is a provision that already exists.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Let me get absolute clarity for the Deputy on this once I-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is what I am trying to clarify.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Subsection 98(4) is effectively a new provision, but the remainder of that section is an existing provision. The other provisions that are there-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not know that point was made before. It might be helpful for the purpose of letting the officials speak, because they have some information which they cannot speak to in public session, if members wanted to go into private session for two minutes so we can get this clarified.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. I think that would be useful, if that is okay with you, Chair, and the members.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 670 is just to remove a comma.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 666: In page 220, line 3, after “weeks” to insert “, or such longer period as the applicant may consent to in accordance with subsection (2),".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 670: In page 220, line 36, to delete “subsection,” and substitute “subsection”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 673: In page 221, line 25, to delete “section,” and substitute “section”.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome and congratulate the Minister of State, Alan Dillon, on his appointment to the Department. Alan has a specific and detailed interest in housing, and I look forward to working with him, as I am sure colleagues across the House do. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for the question. As he knows, under Housing for All, which is the plan that we have actually published, that is fully...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am very happy to stand over our plan, its delivery and its record. That stands in sharp contrast to Sinn Féin's lack of a plan and its lack of alternatives in this space. It has never produced or costed a housing plan. Take the vacant property grant. The Deputy says he is not opposed to it, but he allocated no moneys to it whatsoever in the Sinn Féin alternative budget. To...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not misrepresenting anything. What I am doing is presenting real progress. We had no affordable homes here. First-time buyers are buying at a rate we have not seen since 2006. I and this Government believe in homeownership; you do not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: But you actually do not, Eoin.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I did not interrupt once.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It might be easier. Take the local authority affordable purchase scheme. More than 4,000 affordable homes have been approved under that scheme already. Sixteen hundred-----