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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Order in draft: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. Y) Regulations 2023. Under Standing Order 100(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (11 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional funding can be considered to allow for further planning roles within An Bord Pleanála, all local authorities, the Office of the Planning Regulator amongst other State entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11516/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to this meeting, the purpose of which is to recommence our pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill 2022. I welcome the representatives from the Irish Planning Institute, IPI, and thank them for giving of their time. With us are: Dr. Seán O'Leary, senior planner; Mr. Philip Jones, chair of the policy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will take the next slot. It has been confirmed to us that sections 48 and 49 will be going back into the new planning Bill and that this measure is likely to form part of the planning Bill as well. We are doing separate pre-legislative scrutiny on that. Dr. O'Leary mentioned resources and said we would be sick of talking about resources. The committee has come to the conclusion in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Earlier we discussed that the SDZs were on a larger scale. We are not sure about the UDZs, whether they are smaller. There is talk about urban and suburban underutilised sites. That is the description that is used. We discussed previously the idea of a reduced timeframe for less complex cases. Without knowing how complex a UDZ is compared to an SDZ, I accept Mr. Jones's point about 26...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: One of the things was to engage the public earlier in these processes and have a more meaningful public consultation process rather than just coming in to look at a map on the wall and trying to figure out what might be there. In the planning Bill, nor in this one, I cannot really see what measures would be put in place to try to improve that public consultation process. That would take a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Jones. I had a question on the land value sharing but I will move on to Deputy O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: We are into the third round now. I am going to go first and then bring in Deputies Gould and Ó Broin. Mr. Jones said he was in planning school.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: The Waterford planning school. I refer to the Kenny report. Much later on, in around 2009, the windfall tax was brought in for zoning. Now we have this. Can Mr. Jones recall the reasons the windfall tax was not retained or was not successful? That was an attempt to curtail overzoning at the time, as I remember it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: At the time, we had a lot of overzoning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Yes. At that time, it was an attempt to curtail overzealous zoning during local area plans or county plans. It was removed, however. Would it be Mr. Jones's understanding that this was because we went into an unprecedented time of no development? Again, I do not see how it would have stymied development. It may have curtailed overzoning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: My understanding was that the windfall tax, as it was back in 2009, would have been a tax on newly-zoned land, whereas this would capture everything. I was not present for the first session on this, and I keep meaning to listen back to it as I think many of the questions I have were answered. However, this is retrospective as well, so it would apply to a piece of land which has been zoned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Would Mr. Keran like to come in on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay. That is grand. Deputy Gould is next.