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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I think he has frozen. Could anyone else from the LDA take any of those questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I do not know if the witnesses are in close proximity to each other. Could Mr. O'Neill take any of those questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: We have Mr. Coleman back now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: We may have lost Mr. Coleman again. Did that answer Deputy Higgins's question on engagement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: We are okay on time. We have 20 minutes left and Deputy Higgins's question was the last in the first round. Deputy Ó Broin, Senator Fitzpatrick and I want to come in in the third round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will go to Deputy Ó Broin. There is time for three or four questions if we stick to five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Coleman. We have ten minutes left for me, Senator Fitzpatrick and Deputy McAuliffe. We will try to fit everything in with three minutes each. One of the purposes of the LDA Bill is the creation and development of new and regenerated communities. Mr. Coleman has touched on strategic land assessment and pulling together at scale for provision of services. Proximity to good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will call Senator Fitzpatrick and then Deputy McAuliffe. They have about three minutes each.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I want to thank Mr. Coleman and his colleagues for their attendance. The reason they are here is to assist us with the scrutiny of this legislation, how we may improve it and with recommendations we might make on the heads of this Bill. I put this same question to the County and City Management Association, CCMA, last week and to the approved housing body, the Housing Alliance. I asked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Coleman, Ms Kenny and Mr. O'Neill for their attendance this evening. It has been very helpful in our task of scrutinising this legislation. I thank members for their questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: TII came before the committee two or three weeks ago and provided us with a glossy brochure of road projects throughout the country with a massive, eye-watering price tag on many of the road proposals. This made me think that if even a small proportion of that money was put towards proper public transport projects, we could achieve many our objectives in terms of getting people from place to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (10 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: 1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the existing policy that offers indemnity to private land owners, whose land is crossed by a registered horse trail, if there is an accident; and if a similar policy will be considered that would allow indemnity on public land that would include land owned by Coillte to allow for the expansion of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the draft legislation to legalise the use of e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13625/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: We received a request from the Business Committee regarding the Minister's request for a waiver of pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, of the Residential Tenancies Bill on the grounds of urgency and time constraints. The Business Committee referred the matter to this committee and the question for consideration is whether a waiver of PLS should be granted. I will read the note on privilege....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Senator. I agree with much of what he said. It is my experience of this committee, in the eight months it has been together, that it has taken pre-legislative scrutiny very seriously. Members have applied themselves to it very diligently. We have produced a number of reports and there are further reports in train at the moment. There is much more legislation coming towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Deputy to be brief because the agenda item today is a vote on whether we waive PLS and not to debate the Bill. Today's meeting is not about voting on or scrutinising a Bill, it is about whether we agree to waive the PLS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: Thank you, Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Deputy. I agree with a number of the points he made. We were briefed yesterday on the detail of the Bill. At the request of Deputy Ó Broin, the committee secretariat will request the Minister to come before it, when I have no doubt we will put questions to him on the manner in which this request came before the committee and the committee having to make this decision. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I agree with Deputy O'Donoghue. The committee has applied itself diligently to pre-legislative scrutiny on all the Bills which have come before it. It is the timely and urgent manner of this Bill, however, that is a concern. I want to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny on legislation. That is our job. I totally agree with Deputy O'Donoghue on that. However, there is a time constraint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: I share Deputy Cian O'Callaghan's concern. Members are suggesting we meet this week and the next to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny. A report has to be produced. We then have to meet to decide on that report, submit recommendations or deal with other considerations. Then the report has to be rewritten and brought back to be agreed by the committee. Then it has to be laid before the...