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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, they are ministerial amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendments Nos. 703 and 744 relate to sections 120 and 139 regarding the procedural powers of the commission in respect of direct applications made to it and material alteration requests. Currently there is an ambiguity in the text as it provides that the commission may within such a period as may be prescribed request further submissions on an application or material alteration request...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that the commission itself is part of this legislation and will be operating to strict statutory timelines for the first time. The statutory timeframes the commission must adhere to in decision-making are also elsewhere within the legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: By regulation. We will prescribe them because they will be mandatory.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Just let me have a look at that part here.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I get that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will need a range of timelines for the different types of material alteration requests. It could be quite extensive in that regard, hence they would be detailed in regulation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is the-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Exactly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will come back to Deputy Wynne on it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have the majority report and the minority report on the proposals on how housing would be reflected in the Constitution. I do not have the overall Housing Commission report. It will come in time. It is about the future of housing in Ireland. While we are doing this, as we have said in answer to questions previously, it is important we continue to increase our housing supply, including...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy. We developed the cost rental tenant in situ scheme for tenants in private rental homes who are at risk of homelessness because the landlord intends to sell. This was an add-on to the tenant in situ scheme which I mentioned earlier. There were more than 1,800 purchases last year and we will continue that scheme into this year. We will continue the cost rental tenant in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I completely and utterly reject what the Deputy has just said. It is a measure and an option that is available. Every tenant in the country has been written to through the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, with the options available. The scheme operates on an administrative basis and nothing will stop with regard to applications. I have already said to the Deputy that it must be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can have a chat with his colleagues who are sitting behind him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is the Deputy referring to the reference to ten members?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No. It is exactly the same.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will, particularly given what the Deputy said about communications. Cybersecurity fits under the Department of Defence but communications feeds into that. I think we are covered but I will examine it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is it. It is detailed there as well, under section 165(1), where the Deputy will see reference to "not fewer than 10 housing units".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: In any change the extension is material since the extension of the permission is material.