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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. 193: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) (i) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta and in Bailte...

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. 195: In page 65, line 28, after “archaeological” to insert “, historic”.

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. 201: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity;”.

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. 202: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of human health and well-being;”.

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. 203: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of patterns and layouts of development to better facilitate those with disabilities, to address gender considerations and to address challenges of those experiencing financial, learning, or other challenges;”.

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. 204: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of patterns and layouts of development to better facilitate the Travelling community;”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy to speak to amendments Nos. 204, 306 and 769 together.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, that amendment is on a different theme. Amendment No. 306 is about the obligations to make and review a development plan. Effectively, it provides that the planning authority should take due account of each local authority's Traveller accommodation plan. This reflects recommendations made about this Bill by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission with regard to...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

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 accept that the status quo is not working and that while there have been some successes in this regard, there has been a major failure overall in terms of Traveller accommodation? Does the Minister of State also accept that Traveller accommodation programmes are stalled and are either not progressing or are doing so at a very slow rate over several years? It is...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is of value of course but there is a real need for additional supply and that is not happening, and not happening on the scale needed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair and welcome the Minister of State. I was not satisfied with the response I received previously from the other Minister of State on this. All of us know there are huge issues with Traveller accommodation. I read out some direct quotes from children living in very poor conditions in Traveller-specific accommodation. Those were taken from a report done by the Ombudsman for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: But the amendments are directly related to that review.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask about the Part 8 exemption for social housing to which the Minister of State referred in his response. Deputy Ó Broin is correct that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, made no mention of Traveller-specific housing when he was putting forward a rationale for the exemption. Can the Minister of State let us know how many Traveller-specific homes have been delivered under the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was asking how many Traveller-specific homes-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that the Part 8 exemption?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not accept the responses of the Minister of State to the previous amendments and I will certainly press some of them. I do not think the legislation is strong enough and it is not okay just to say it is down to the progressiveness or otherwise of the local Traveller accommodation consultative committees. The very reason we have the expert report is that the process is failing. Even...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Rents have almost doubled in the past decade, house prices are so high that we have collapsing rates of home ownership and unprecedented numbers of people in their 20s and 30s are still living with their parents or in box rooms. We can all agree that we have an affordability crisis. This amendment’s measure works in other countries and helps make housing more affordable. How on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is the point that I am trying to make. What the councillors will do in their housing strategies is they will say they need enough land for, let us say, 10,000 affordable homes in their area over the next ten years, some of which will be affordable rental or cost-rental and affordable purchase, but then what happens? It is fine to have a housing strategy and say this is their assessment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not address it at all.