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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----abuse of planning and the appeal process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have an observation to make on this and then a final question on the general provisions. In the course of the consideration of the Bill, committee members were written to by Fórsa trade union. I know these are matters between the trade union, its workers and the employer, and I am not seeking for the committee to get involved in those matters. As a general observation, however, on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Turning to my final question, given that there are very specific transitional procedures for a large array of areas of activity, what is the purpose of the general provisions? Is it in case something was missed or is it just to have a general catch-all? Are there issues on which the Minister of State's officials are advising him that may benefit from these general provisions? I am not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Many of the statutory instruments could be indefinite in nature, and their transitional nature could be such that they will just continue until such time as somebody decides to cease them. They are less likely to be time bound in the way that some of the other transitional mechanisms are. It is just a matter for the Government.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That applies in a general way to all statutory instruments, other than the large body of regulations the Minister of State's team are working on, which will have to start moving their way through the system on enactment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, it is a supplementary point. The Bill as drafted outlines a clear procedure for either rescinding or replacing a section 28 mandatory ministerial guideline. The challenge with amendment No. 188 is that any guidelines under section 52 of the 2000 Act - I presume there is a list of the guidelines issued thereunder - will continue in force until the “first issuing of a National...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: By way of being helpful, it seems to me that the amendment needs some clarification that the national planning policy statement should be a relevant national policy statement as per section 24 of the Bill. A little bit of drafting would make it clear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will have a row about them tomorrow. Do not worry. We will get into that in the other amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just need 30 seconds, with the Chair's indulgence.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a complementary point. I know these extensions are not normal or usual. The merger of Waterford city and county councils is one example. I am interested to hear how frequent or infrequent such extensions have been. I also want to know the role of elected members. Is it that there is a request from the chief executive or the elected members to extend? Is it a unilateral...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister will be aware, the December homeless figures showed a record 13,318 people, including 3,962 children, in emergency accommodation funded by his Department. That is a 20% increase in family homelessness on the previous year but there was a month-on-month increase in single-person homelessness and pensioner homelessness. While I welcome the fact there was a slight decrease in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the December figures were published, Simon Communities stated that homelessness is poised to increase in the coming months. They would know because they are on the front line. The problem is there is a growing gap between the answers that the Minister gives to these questions on the floor of the Dáil and the reality for many thousands of adults and children who are experiencing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The homeless figures: make grim reading with no progress made in terms of stemming the flow of families presenting as homeless or moving people out of emergency accommodation into long term housing. Consistent increases in the overall homelessness numbers over the past five years despite regular announcements of plans and strategies have destroyed confidence in the ability of the political...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House and he will have to correct the record.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You should not be allowed mislead the House, Minister.