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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I agree with many of the comments Deputy John Curran has just made. I understand exactly what is being asked for in this amendment. I think those Deputies who have got to know me as Opposition spokespeople will know that I have no problem talking about data, reports and assessments and setting targets and trying to meet them. However, to insert in the legislation a requirement for a...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am just trying to put this into context. We are ramping up the supports that are necessary. Ultimately, we need homes for people through social housing programmes rather than emergency beds. In the short term, we need to increase emergency facilities. We are also kitting out facilities for families. This will ensure families who find themselves homeless can make a proper transition...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Unfortunately, we will be coming back on Monday.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I think so.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I served on the same one.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I apologise if I am looking at Members and asking them to be concise and brief, but we had a long debate on this issue on Second Stage, Committee Stage and in the Seanad. What we are proposing to do, and it is a major part of the legislation, is to bring more certainty, a term that has been used a great deal today and last night, to the planning system. This is not bypassing local...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: It is asking for ten people plus increased resources. It might be 12 people, but that is the type of number involved in order for it to work with the local authorities. We have granted an extra 500 staff across the local authorities, predominantly for planning, engineering and quantity surveying services because we are gearing up local authorities, mainly around the social housing build...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: It is.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: That is why we are spending €200 million on an infrastructure fund to be announced-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I will brief in my response. This new system will have to prove itself but we know that the average length of time it took those 15 applications, to which I referred earlier, to go from initial consultation to decision was about 80 weeks and the new system can get through the process in about 26 weeks. I agree with Deputy Wallace that if we did not change anything, many more planning...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: If one gets a planning decision through this new fast-track system one cannot get an extension; one has to move on with it.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, to delete lines 26 and 27.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 11:In page 11, to delete lines 12 to 17 and substitute the following:“(a) subject to subsection (3), return to the prospective applicant concerned the copies of the request and statement submitted to it for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b), respectively, of section 5(4), and”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 16:In page 21, line 37, to delete “vary” and substitute “extend”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 20:In page 25, line 10, after “as the case may be” to insert “, and the circumstances in which the Board shall not pay any proportion of the fee to such planning authority or authorities”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 30:In page 29, line 4, to delete “paragraph (a) there were inserted the following after subparagraph (III)” and substitute “paragraph (a)(i) there were inserted the following after clause (III)”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 32:In page 29, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“Construction of sections 176A, 176B and 176C (screening for environmental impact assessment) of Act of 2000 during specified period22. Sections 176A, 176B and 176C shall not apply during the specified period to a proposed strategic housing development in respect of which a prospective applicant has,...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 37:In page 30, to delete lines 12 to 25 and substitute the following:“(2) (a) Subject to section 176B, where a proposed development is of a class standing specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 and does not exceed the relevant quantity, area or other limit standing specified in that Part, an application for a screening...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 38:In page 33, to delete lines 5 to 8 and substitute the following:“(i) stating that the determination may be referred to the Board for review by—(I) the applicant, (II) the owner of the land, where he or she is not the applicant, (III) the occupier of the land, where he or she is not the applicant or the owner of the land, and (IV) any person or body...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 39:In page 33, line 9, to delete “(ii) identifying” and substitute “(iii) identifying”.