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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not have that option when I pay my tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Martin made a very good point when she asked if we have to wait for a tragedy to occur. It is not an exaggeration. If one looks at the history of building control, powers were first given to the Minister to develop building control regulations in the 1960s. The regulations were not drafted until the 1970s and it was then decided not to implement them. The Stardust fire led to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our guests are being heard. It is important for them, the people here with them and anybody else who is listening that lots of people are hearing what is being said. It is not just members of this committee and the Oireachtas. There has been a good and significant level of good media coverage from RTÉ, The Irish Timesand Irish Examiner. I reassure people that there are people hearing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 25 July 2019, if officials in the embassy in Colombia met with local human rights groups and visited a mine (details supplied); if so, when the report from the visit will be made available; and if not, the reason therefor. [46262/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 438. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent decision by a number of domestic bin collection companies to increase their annual standing charge and lift charge; the steps he plans to take to ensure that those on low incomes including pensioners are protected from such unregulated price increases; and the steps he is taking to see the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recipients of partial capacity benefit ineligible to avail of the same range of training and upskilling supports offered to those in receipt of other social welfare payments; and her plans to extend supports to this group in the future. [46169/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings he or his officials have had with Dublin City Council management or councillors since 7 October 2019 regarding a development (details supplied); and the additional funding requested and-or granted beyond the initial €10 million allocation from the serviced sites fund to assist an approved housing body...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: As somebody who started out as a sceptic of the proposition in front of us, given everything I have heard in these meetings, I am probably now an outright opponent of the scheme as it is currently proposed. The bit of this project which I like, the active land management, will be far weaker than we need. The part with which I was always uncomfortable, that is, the residential development,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the important issue and it is an area where we may be in agreement. Part V of the Planning and Development Act allows the State to acquire units and the land value calculation on those is existing land use value, not the full market value. My main concern is that even if the LDA gets the CPO powers, in order to be fully compliant with state aid rules, in particular the requirement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that just mean it would be pushed up to pay the market price as opposed to existing land use value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the added value of the LDA being involved in Shanganagh?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question was about Shanganagh. What added value does the LDA bring to that development, which could be progressed tomorrow by the local authority and the Department were funding provided? What does the LDA bring to the table?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That does not apply in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown case, which is the first development the LDA is seeking to do, or does it? I am asking a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I asked about the covenants from the Housing Agency in respect of the land that was transferred under the LDA's current status or its designated activity company, DAC, status.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In such a transfer, will the Housing Agency retain its ability to set those covenants after the LDA's establishment as a DAC or will it be in any way weakened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Which is the LDA's understanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their detailed responses. I do not want to go back to the countercyclical issue because it is important to acknowledge that the difficulties the State had after 2008 were not because of a lack of borrowing capacity or a lack of Exchequer revenue; they were because of decisions taken to use the borrowing capacity and Exchequer revenue to hand to do something else....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will happily second amendments to the legislation if it does not come back in an appropriate form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Norris and her team for the report. I commend the group on turning around the report in a speedy timeframe given everybody was working in a voluntary capacity while also doing other work. However, I will express a degree of frustration, although not with anybody presenting to us. It is important to recall the origin of this expert group report was the report on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to respond in a constructive way to comments other committee members made. It is important to tease out this stuff but it is also important to acknowledge the Minister and his staff are paying close attention to this committee because implementing this report will be tricky and the Minister will not put himself out on a limb if he does not think he will get support for these measures....