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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Where people are sitting on those sites, that is where the zoned tax comes in. Maybe that is the incentive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Exactly. Let someone else take it on. I have the sense that there is agreement that land value sharing is a good thing in terms of planning and sustainability, and is for the common good. It is the actions of the State that increased the value of that land so the State designates, through the planning process, that the land is suitable and needed for development. The zoning and planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I am sorry to interrupt but the distortion I am talking about is not a distortion as regards an upwards price. Is it creating a distortion through downwards pressure because that is ultimately-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I do not think anything we do in the planning system should be overnight cliff-edge deliverables. There are unintended consequences of saying this will be done right here and right now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Before Mr. O'Connell responds, I will ask another question he may also wish to answer. When someone secures planning permission on land and the value of that land obviously goes up in value, does that have an impact on surrounding lands as well? Does it raise the value of all lands in the area? If somebody can get 400 units on that site, will the value of a site nearby also be lifted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: There is a massive demand for construction workers across the construction industry. I would question the suggestion that people will get out of the building game. There is massive demand for retrofitting and massive demand across the entire system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Surely local authorities and AHBs already have a competitive advantage. They can borrow at a lower rate and do not have to make the same profit to get investment. They already have that advantage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I do not know who mentioned in an opening statement that we need more zoned land and more planning permission. Do the witnesses not think there is enough zoned land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: How much zoned land is there, for example, in the greater Dublin area at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Does anyone have that figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: If we zoned a lot more land, that would assist with delivery and affordability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I have to be as strict with my time as I am with everyone else's. I will go to Deputy McAuliffe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will go to Mr. Kelleher on that point and Mr. Moran also wants to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: There will be massive climate implications there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: I apologise that I will have to vacate the chair. I will hand over to Deputy Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I want to compliment the witnesses on how they run their ports. They are well run strategic infrastructure and absolutely necessary. My questions are to Mr. O'Connell and Dublin Port. His growth assumption is massive. It is a huge growth assumption. It is double that put out in the ports capacity study by Arup. For example, he suggested that 2.25 million roll on-roll off units, where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Sure, I get that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: The Arup report was all wrong.