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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the outreach team, is it visiting people who sleep rough in the vicinity of Mount Street?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have had complaints that there had not been engagement. That is why I am asking that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The complaint I have received is that people are sleeping rough in the vicinity of Mount Street who are the direct responsibility of the DRHE and there has not been sufficient, or any, engagement from the outreach team. That is why I was asking that question. Finally, on the rough sleeper count, there was an issue in November 2022 when the outreach team counted 180 people sleeping rough...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was getting a good answer on the methodology on that. If we could get a note to complete that, it would be very helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank everyone who has come in. A lot of very important points have been made, and I thank all the witnesses for their contributions. Will the National One Parent Family Alliance expand a little on the four calls it has made here? Second, Ms Bayliss talked about all children in emergency accommodation having access to a child support worker. What does she think that needs to look...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a follow-up question to that. We have discussed with the Dublin Region Homeless Executive the fact that, previously, there was a certain number of on-site support workers in NGO and not-for-profit homeless accommodation, whereas they were not in private emergency accommodation. Now there are visiting support workers provided by NGOs to private emergency accommodation. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Whether the children are in private emergency accommodation or with an NGO, they get the same access to child support workers. Is that the case or does Ms Bayliss not know?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would be grateful to get a view on the following point: let us say the elected members in a local authority adopt a development plan and, for a geographical area, put in objectives around flood relief works having to involve nature-based solutions. Then, if there was a proposal for flood relief works that were not nature-based solutions but fitted with the criteria for the material...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My questions were more to Deputy Matthews.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Matthews responded.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 136: In page 60, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(g)supporting the protection and enhancement of biodiversity.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 137: In page 60, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(g) (i) supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta and in Bailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (ii)supporting the implementation of language plans in Bailte Seirbhíse...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can the Minister clarify whether national planning statements are meant to address plan-making alone, or, as inferred from our reading of the text, do they stray beyond plan-making to the decision-making part of the planning process? The view of the Irish Planning Institute is that they stray into the decision-making process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a great deal to say on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that, and there is a mention of that further on in the Bill but that kind of misses the point. What I am saying is that in planning in general, in addition to social housing and particularly affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes, the key aim of the planning system should be to make sure that housing is affordable for people. If you go back to the first principles of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak on amendments Nos. 223 to 225, inclusive. The Minister of State spoke about a period of transition. How long will that take?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister of State envisage that all the section 28 guidelines will be updated? Will some of them be considerably changed? Will they be incorporated as they are in the national planning statements? Is it a range of all of that? Could some of the existing section 28 guidelines stay on the books for a number of years before there is any national planning statement replacing them?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 184: In page 65, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(g) Roinn na Gaeltachta, Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Foras na Gaeilge.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 190: In page 65, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(8) National Planning Statements and amendments, including revocations, should be subject to Joint Oireachtas Committee scrutiny.”.