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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of available GP services in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if the HSE is taking any action to promote the provision of GP services to the growing population in the area. [22207/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the assistance being provided to a person (details supplied) by his Department regarding a complex case. [22094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all organisations and individuals consulted in advance of the publication of the general scheme of the Planning and Development (Land Value sharing and Urban Development Zones) Bill 2022; and a list of all submissions received by his Department during the preparation of this general scheme. [22008/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm the allocation of the affordable housing fund for the cost rental homes to be delivered by Dublin City Council in St. Michael’s estate, Inchicore; and if he will commit to meeting local and other opposition Deputies once the planning is granted to discuss how the pre-construction phase of approval...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum level of affordable housing funding under the latest iteration of the scheme; and if he will list which projects with approval have been allocated this upper limit. [22012/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the regulations for the enhanced defective block remediation scheme. [22013/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the building defects redress scheme and the provision of funding for interim and emergency works. [22014/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the recently issued €200 cost-of-living payments were not made to qualified adult dependents whose spouse was in receipt of a State pension; and if she will review the matter in the interests of fairness. [22015/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Dr. O’Leary for his presentation which is very helpful. I have a question on each of the sections of the Bill. Who ends up paying for the cost of betterment? It seemed from our question to the Department in the past week that there were two schools of thought. Obviously, this charge will not impact on any land that currently has an active planning permission as it is only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that point, when developers are submitting Part V figures to the local authority, they include Part V as a cost which needs to be distributed around. I have heard other active land management experts argue that in fact 20 years on from the passing of the Act, Part V brings down land values because it is being purchased in the knowledge that 20% as it was originally, and 10% as it is 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) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have said before that I am a very strong supporter of SDZs. I went through Clonburris and have a good knowledge of Poolbeg. Exactly as Senator Cummins and Mr. Jones stated, where they work to provide clear frameworks for people to operate in, everybody benefits. That is not to say they are without problems. I want to go back to a question I asked earlier that was missed. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If that section were to be subjected to a slight change where instead of refers to "the State", there was reference to "the local authority" or "the functional area", all of a sudden the scale becomes relative to the planning authority rather than to the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some three or four years ago, before this general scheme was published and before UDZs were in the Government's housing plan, the IPI was talking about UDZs. What did it have in mind back then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was going to ask a supplementary question on that point. If I understand it right, the discount to the State when purchasing Part V units is that the land is acquired at existing use value. That establishes the principle that existing use value, in that context, is adequate compensation. For me this is a really significant point. Why would the State deviate from that as a principle? If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given that all almost all SDZs have multiple land ownership, one of the challenges, such as that in Clonburris after it went through the board's appeal, was getting agreement between the landowners around the amenity space. I wonder if this provision is really about strengthening the hand of the local authority in that land management group, or the landowner group, post the passing, to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. I am trying to work out why they have done it. They might have given us an opening to do something better. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Maybe I have spent too much time at meetings of this committee but I actually think planning is a really exciting profession. If you consider what is being taught in Technological University Dublin, between planning, urban regeneration and transport-oriented development, you will realise the profession is really exciting. Part of the problem is that many go through school not even knowing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Jones's reading of the Bill is that, in that instance, only the Part V portion of the planning permission would not be relevant for the purposes of the land value sharing tax liability. The remainder of the housing would be. I presume, but I think the committee should clarify with the Department, whether a developer would be able to evade the land value sharing tax in the case of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, the developer pays at the point of commencement. Not for all, but for the vast majority of turnkey properties, the turnkey agreement is in place before commencement. I know that is not always the case, but it is for a large number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies for my rant on the dogma of mixed tenure. I have a particular view on the issue.