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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Climate Action Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and capital costs involved with each action item in the Interim Climate Action Plan under his Department’s responsibility. [32698/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current and capital costs involved with each action item in the Interim Climate Action Plan under his Department’s responsibility. [32692/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Climate Action Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 425. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current and capital costs involved with each action item in the Interim Climate Action Plan under her Department’s responsibility. [32701/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across Mr. Joyce but one of the options is to use post office box registration, which would not require a fixed abode in the traditional settled sense of the term. Does post office box registration or some similar system provide a practical solution? My question, I suppose, is if the witness has a preferred option.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 190 is very simple. In one sense, it is precautionary. Depending on the Minister's response, I may press it. The general provision in question is subsection 57(3), which states: "Land owned by the Agency shall not be State Land within the meaning of the State Property Act 1954." I am keen to know the implications of that. Could the Minister outline the reason for its...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that basis, I am more than happy to withdraw amendment No. 190.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's amendment. I will explain the logic of my slightly subsidiary amendments. The section of the legislation in question is one of the weaker ones. It is not a new one in the sense that while the original general scheme of the LDA Bill brought before us in 2019 by the then Minister, Mr. Eoghan Murphy, did not include this provision, he made it very clear...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The real value of having CPO powers is the threat of using them rather than actually using them. They strengthen the negotiating hand of anybody in discussions. As the Minister well knows, unfortunately, a large number of the commercial semi-States which have some of these landbanks that are not being used cannot be directed by the Government to transfer land. For example, the bus garages...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 193: In page 40, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(a) to provide land to local authorities, approved housing bodies, community housing trusts or other not-for-profit bodies for the provision of social, affordable cost rental and affordable purchase homes,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 196: In page 40, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(4) The power referred to insubsection (1) shall not apply to land in the ownership of a local authority.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are going to get through the amendments today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 197: In page 45, lines 19 and 20, to delete “and, where applicable, Part V of the Act of 2000”. One concerning aspect of both the Bill and the more general debate is how little attention is paid to the issue of social housing. Genuine concern has been expressed by organisations such as the Irish Council for Social Housing and various homelessness...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To expedite matters, I will go through all of my amendments in this group. They are three different types of amendment. My argument on amendment No. 198 is exactly the same as Deputy O'Callaghan's. There should not be an exemption from any provisions that seek to maximise the delivery of social and affordable housing on public land. Therefore, I endorse his argument. That is the reason...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 203: In page 46, lines 7 and 8, to delete “50 per cent, or such other percentage as the Minister may prescribe under section 75,” and substitute “100 per cent”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 208: In page 46, lines 11 and 12, to delete “50 per cent, or such other percentage as the Minister may prescribe under section 75,” and substitute “100 per cent”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 211: In page 46, line 12, to delete “Minister” and substitute “Local Authority”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 213: In page 47, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “75.The Minister shall ensure that all land assembled by the Agency will be used for social, affordable cost rental and affordable purchase homes.”.