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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are not accepting that amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No. We have not got to that yet.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 791 inserts a new section: "Suspension of running of duration of permission due to Part 9 judicial review proceedings". This amendment will suspend or pause a planning permission where it is subject to a judicial review, JR. Under the Planning Act 2000, there is no restriction on the holder of a permission commencing the development while the permission is subject to JR, but...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot accept the amendments proposed by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh to my amendment No. 791. Amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 791 removes the end date for the suspension of time. It is not workable that a suspension of time would not have a clear end date. That would introduce uncertainty as to when the period ends. Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 to amendment No. 791...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: A JR is taken on foot of the permission being granted by the planning authority. The person who makes a submission to the original application is not party to the JR. The suspension of time is not relevant to them and does not affect what they have put forward. The decision on the JR will be made one way or the other. Either the permission is upheld or the JR is upheld and the permission...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I absolutely agree with the Deputy. I just think one day is very short, so we need to re-envisage it to be a short period. I certainly take on board the motivation behind this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will prescribe the period so it will be clear and so it is not just left open for a short period. There will be a prescribed period. Specifically in respect of the amendments the Deputy tabled - I understanding the motivation behind them - a period of one day is seen to be very short. We will be talking in terms of days, and we will be prescribe the period. We will not be a million...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: There is no distinction between a standard permission of five or be that ten. We checked these points. We looked at it, particularly in the context of environmental assessments and so on, with the OPC and the Attorneys General, and this provision is absolutely sound. With the passing of this Bill, changes will be made. We are seeing fewer JRs now anyway, which is good. That is down to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Deputy to think about it this way. If one applies, one might get a ten-year permission. The environmental assessments, etc., that are done are generally for a long period of time, such as the ten-year period in that instance, so we are not looking to add on to the end. We are stopping the clock. It might be a difference between ten years and 11 years. If one is granted...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The difference is that the Deputy is referring to "the notification" whereas I am referring to "the commencement of the proceedings".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are referring to "the commencement of the proceedings".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is referring to "the notification".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The notification comes after the commencement. That is the reason for that.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 591, 592, 594, 595, 596, 606, 607, 614, 625, 627, 659, 665, 711, 714 and 724 together. On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All Action Plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Public ownership is a core principle governing the development of water services and the Government has given its full commitment to holding a referendum on ownership of water services. It should also be noted that the establishment of Uisce Éireann in public ownership is already firmly secured under the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2022. I have previously committed to bringing forward a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Where my Department approves additional staff for a local authority, it is then a matter for the Chief Executive, who is responsible under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001 for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he or she is responsible, to progress the appointments as appropriate. My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 598, 615, 616 and 617 together. Since 2013, Exchequer funding has been provided through my Department's Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) to support local authorities with the retrofit of local authority owned homes requiring insulation and energy upgrade works. Over the period 2013 to the end of 2023, local authorities received over €308...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme provides for the purchase by eligible tenants of local authority houses which are available for sale under the scheme. All applications for the Scheme must satisfy the requirements outlined in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015. Changes to the scheme took effect from 29...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Tailte Éireann is the State agency formed on 1 March 2023 following the merger of Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Property Registration Authority and the Valuation Office. All the functions previously carried out by the Property Registration Authority, the Valuation Office, and Ordnance Survey Ireland are now being performed by Tailte Éireann. Tailte Éireann is independent in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: At its core, Housing for All seeks to significantly increase the supply of quality, affordable housing. To this end, it includes a range of measures to ensure a balanced delivery of homes for private ownership, social housing and private rental over its lifetime, including apartments for rent and sale. Since its launch in 2021, there has been a substantial uplift in the quantum of new...