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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To pick up that point, I have always been of the view that it is primarily a resourcing issue in the sense that both the length of time it takes the board to make decisions and the length of time it takes the courts to proceed is a function of the number of people who are working on those cases. There is obvious logic to that. I believe, however, that we should try to have a planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across Mr. Flynn but should we really be looking at a timing matrix rather than a number? I take the point about timelines in primary legislation. There might be an argument for the legislation setting out a mechanism by which timelines are determined or for a timeline matrix to be agreed and then reviewed. What we do not want is a set of timelines that simply does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, our conversations with the Department have had to do with resources for the planning authorities because resources for the Judiciary are ultimately a matter for the Department of Justice. However, even that is an issue because the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is proposing a set of changes that will also impact on the operation of the courts but that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a representativeness condition, as opposed to a material impact condition, in any of those other jurisdictions? Does a group of residents have to demonstrate that it represents 50% plus one of the residents in a certain area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Grounds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise. Perhaps I did not explain the question properly. We had a previous discussion with Senator Seery Kearney on the issue of Departments and officials often saying that a particular group of people taking a judicial review against a development is not representative of the community from which they emanate. Nowhere is it a requirement under law for a group to be representative....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It sounds like a stupid question but it is important to establish that representativeness is currently not actually a legal requirement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In four weeks' time the emergency ban on evictions will end. From April, hundreds of people will face the prospect of losing their homes. Single people, couples, parents with children and pensioners will become homeless. In many local authorities emergency accommodation is already full to capacity. The system is at breaking point. In Dublin alone, 60 single people and 100 families from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no pro to being in emergency accommodation, sleeping in a tent or having to bring your children to a Garda station. The Taoiseach said the ban on evictions was not working. In fact, it was his Government that was not working. The reason the previous ban on evictions was so effective was because exits from homelessness rose. In the past year and half, under the watch of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What additional emergency measures will the Government put in place for April to counteract the negative consequences of its own decision?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Last night, "RTÉ Investigates" put a spotlight on the difficult and traumatic circumstances families of children with additional needs are experiencing due to the failures of the public health service. There are nearly 12,000 children on waiting lists for psychology appointments in a public primary care centre. Many of these children are waiting over five years, and in some cases more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a reason I am asking this question. Again, getting the explanatory memorandum would be helpful, but many of us who have been involved in many of the recent and controversial changes to our planning system, that then led to significant increases in the number of judicial reviews of residential developments, are looking at aspects of this proposed Bill to see if they are an attempt by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The members of a group might be a minority interest within their community. However, as long as they meet all of the other criteria to hold legal standing, that does not matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In her submission, Ms Minch says that she is looking at six other areas of the Bill. I invite her to tell us what the view or views of the members of her committee are on any or all of those areas at this preliminary stage. We have a fair amount of time and I believe the Chair would be interested in hearing those views as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would Ms Minch like to briefly run through those areas?