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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 23:In page 19, to delete lines 33 to 35. I will defer to Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: One of the positive aspects of Part V is the social mix. This will be important. Due to the lack of supply, there is a need to build public housing on a large scale, as I do not see how we will provide houses if we do not build them. I completely agree that a get out clause will always be problematic. Developers are always looking to find a way out of their obligation to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: One of the issues I raised either at the pre-legislative stage or on Second Stage was the need for flexibility. Ten years ago, nobody could have foreseen the extent of the collapse in the economy and in the property sector. We are looking into the future and looking at this provision in a very fixed way. I looked for a sunset clause so there would be at the very least the prospect of a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 24:In page 20, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “33. Section 96 (inserted by section 3 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002) of the Act of 2000 is deleted.”. There has been a lot of talk about the housing programme and people understand when units are being delivered. They understand there is a permanency about those units...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I will make two points on the negotiations that must take place. Many local authorities have lost some of the staff that would have been on temporary contracts and so on. When developers are coming in and negotiating, there is a particular skillset that is not always available at local authority level. The Minister might give us some assurances that there would be a beefing up of that...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 25:In page 20, to delete lines 19 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 and 2.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 26:In page 21, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(c) in subsection (3)(c), by inserting after subparagraph (v) the following:“(vi) the extent of the prevailing and preferential need for physical houses instead of sites to address urgent housing shortages,”,”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 27:In page 21, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(c) in subsection (3)(c), by inserting after subparagraph (v) the following:“(vi) the need to ensure a viable long term housing stock through the stipulation that transfers of houses under such an agreement shall be of an indefinite term,”,”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 28:In page 21, line 10, to delete “and profit on those costs”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 29:In page 21, to delete lines 17 and 18.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 30:In page 21, to delete lines 22 to 28.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 31:In page 22, lines 2 to 23, to delete all words from and including "(1) Section" in line 2 down to and including line 23.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 33:In page 22, after line 38, to insert the following:"37. The Minister shall, within twelve months of the coming into operation of this Part and at regular intervals not exceeding twelve months, cause a review of the appropriateness of the measures contained therein to be undertaken independently, and shall lay the findings of such review before each House of the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: May I speak about the amendments being ruled out of order?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is quite extraordinary how we can be told that issues do not come within the scope of the Bill and yet in the next few days, we will deal with the absolute converse where we will change the Title of legislation and rush it through. There is hypocrisy about what does and does not come within the scope of legislation. In some cases, that could be extremely frustrating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I know Dr. Weeks confined himself to voter education and research. I agree with him completely because I do not think there has ever been an election after which people have not asked me whether they voted correctly. The very fact that adults who have been voting all their lives are asking that question shows the need that is not being met. Youngsters who have gone through secondary school...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This is the third Bill related to water services that has been through a very flawed process. The first, introduced in February 2013, was introduced on the same day as the promissory note deal, if one wants to call it a deal. It was so heavily guillotined that only one amendment was debated. With regard to the second Bill, introduced in December of that year, only three hours were allowed...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: On a point of order, under Standing Order 134(1) I wish to move a motion to recommit the Bill in its entirety to Committee Stage. There was a procedural error on Committee Stage because we were not informed at the beginning of Committee Stage that there would be a substantial change to the Bill. It was only at the tail end of Committee Stage that we were informed. I believe there was a...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move:That in accordance with Standing Order 134(1), the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 be recommitted in its entirety.On Committee Stage, we were told as a by-the-way at the end of Committee Stage rather than at the beginning that there would be changes to the Bill. We were not told there would be substantial changes. The process is technically very flawed and for that...