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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 183: In page 38, line 32, to delete “market value” and substitute “existing use value”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support amendment No. 186 because it is very much in the same spirit as my own view of this section. Amendment No. 187 is also one of the AILG's amendments. It is a very specific provision whereby if the LDA intends to sell land that has originally been acquired from a local authority, it should be offered for purchase back to the local authority either at the prevailing market...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to reply to the Minister in regard to amendment No. 187. The fundamental disagreement here is that I do not believe one or two Ministers should have the authority to decide whether considerable tracts of public land should be sold, including to private actors. One of the great values of the section 183 process in local authorities, to which I will come in a moment, is that there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 187: In page 39, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(4) In the case of land that had been acquired originally from a local authority, the land shall be offered for purchase to the local authority at the prevailing market price or the price paid to the local authority at original acquisition, whichever is the lower.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would the Chair mind clarifying the question that is being put?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 190: In page 39, to delete lines 32 and 33. I wish to press the amendment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Dublin City Council's strategic development zone, SDZ, master plan for the Poolbeg lands was approved in 2019. The SDZ will provide a much-needed 3,500 new homes on the site, as well as economic opportunity and social amenities. Thanks to a very determined campaign by the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group, the SDZ plan includes a commitment to deliver 15% of these homes at affordable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Both Dublin City Council and the local community need the Government to get more directly involved to resolve this dispute. There is approximately €80 million of public funds earmarked for infrastructure in the strategic development zone. Of that, €15 million is from the Minister's own Department, which is co-funding the bridge to complete the south docks. There is up to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government promised an examination of the issue of defective housing in the first 12 months. The programme states that the examination will have "regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing report, ‘Safe as Houses’." As the Minister knows, that report called for the introduction of a latent defects redress scheme for affected...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I specifically ask about the collation of data relating to domestic and gender-based violence. As the Minister of State knows, it has been almost two decades since a landmark sexual abuse and violence in Ireland report. Following a very lengthy campaign by advocates and front-line service providers, agreement was reached between the Department of Justice and the Central Statistics Office by...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his outline of what the Bill involves. By way of a general comment, rushed planning legislation, unfortunately, often leads to bad planning outcomes. Too often in previous years we have seen very complex and technical changes introduced at the last minute to already very complex planning and development legislation, the outcome of which has been to make our planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect. I would like more information from the Minister on what could be the maximum extension. This would be helpful. On the extension of planning permission, I do not think there is a Deputy in the House who wants disadvantage in any way building sites, particularly those involving residential construction, that have been forced to close because of public health guidelines....

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — on 9th April, 2019, An Board Pleanála approved Dublin City Council’s (DCC) Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme for Poolbeg West; — following years of campaigning by the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group and communities in Ringsend and Irishtown, Dublin City Councillors ensured the SDZ plan...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the reasons it is so important to get that extra 15% is because house prices in this part of the city have increased more dramatically than in many other places, as the Minister is aware. There are families who have lived in that part of the city for three or four generations and whose children simply cannot afford to rent or buy there, and who do not have any prospect of renting or...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his remarks. The Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group was formed in 2016. It has been campaigning vigorously and has secured cross-party and widespread community support during that time. For the five years of that campaign, Fine Gael has been in government and in charge of housing for most of that time. What really galls many people in the affected...

Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to make the wearing of protective clothing mandatory for cyclists and road users of powered personal transporters. [34410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cyclists and road users of powered personal transporters will be liable for road tax. [34411/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to insurance for cyclists and road users of powered personal transporters; and if this will be made compulsory. [34412/21]