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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support this part of the Bill and I accept the logic for it. However, what is provided for in it will be available to a larger range of potential applicants than those whose requirements provoked the original proposals before us. Not all of the NGOs are on the current prescribed list of relevant organisations. I accept that the criteria under which other organisations can be included is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful and in recognition of what the Minister said, I will withdraw the block of amendments in my name. As we will be returning to address these issues in the context of our consideration of the changes to the Planning and Development Act by way of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, perhaps I could make a written submission on the matter to the officials for consideration...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 121:In page 33, line 30, to delete "further" and substitute "make a determination on whether to". I shall speak to amendments Nos. 121, 122 and 125. Again, the purpose is not to oppose or delay the extension of planning permission. If a ten-year planning permission has been granted but has not been used and there is an application for extension, there could be changes...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 121, 122 and 125.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes but not the way I would like the Minister to answer it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is an answer.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 122:In page 33, line 32, to delete "shall" and substitute "may".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 125:In page 34, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:"(V) has undertaken a new screening for environmental impact assessment in accordance with section 176B of the Act of 2000, in relation to the class of development under re-consideration, and/or any element of the development either individually or collectively, further to receipt of the necessary...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 126:In page 34, to delete lines 16 and 17.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 127:In page 34, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“(2) In making a decision under this section the planning authority shall promptly notify the applicant, prescribed bodies consulted and any parties making submissions or observations of the decision, and shall indicate that any decision relating to the extension by the planning authority may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to speak against amendment No.128 and in favour of my own amendment No. 130. I fully support the Minister here. While I was on South Dublin County Council we always took our housing Part VIII applications very quickly. I remember the first Part VIII I was involved in was a cycle path, the application for which had been dragging on completely unnecessarily for two years because...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand the current requirement for Part VIII decision is not for a majority of members of the council, it is to have a majority of members at the current meeting of the council. It appears that the wording is unintentionally raising the bar.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: In response to that, the Minister will know, because Part VIII plans often informally come through an area committee first-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----that in many cases councillors from outside the area are less connected. For example, a completely non-controversial Part VIII may be agreed upon by all elected members on the area committee. There is a disincentive for other councillors from outside the area to come to that particular meeting or be at that section of the meeting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be happy to withdraw amendment No. 130 on that basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 132:In page 34, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:“24.Section 28 of the Act of 2000 (as amended by section 2 of the Act of 2015) is amended by the deletion of subsection (1C).”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. We have had a debate in the past number of months over increasing the supply of social housing, rental properties and private sector houses. It is important that in the course of the debate we do not lose sight of building standards or quality of living standards for the people who will occupy those units. While it is slightly opportunistic of me to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to repeat anything, but I wish to make two points. It is appropriate for central Government to set minimum standards across a whole range of areas, however, the elected members of the local authorities may believe it is in the best interest of citizens to go beyond or above the standards in their city or county development plan. That is something that not only should be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: They may do. Or one may have local authorities that have environmental, passive house or quality of life standards for tenants, which try to provide an even better quality of outcome than central Government policy would do. Within the context of the democratically elected members in a county development plan, that is an important function of our democracy. However, specifically concerning...