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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment can be discussed. It will be moved and voted on when we get to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It can be discussed now by any member.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are looking for a comment on the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two brief, high-level points. This is not the same discussion as we had on the previous days, particularly because the national planning framework has a completely different statutory status in the hierarchy of plans. Therefore, it would be impossible for somebody to have a view of these types of amendments with respect to development plans and to take a different view with respect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We may not need it, but if the meeting is going a little longer we have flexibility at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all the witnesses for attending and for their opening statements. I can hear the frustration in their voices, and we understand how frustrating it is to have to come back here over and over again. However, it is also important that other people in this building hear that things not only have not got better but, in some sense from the testimony given at the start, have actually got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the gap between the grant Mr. O'Connell will get and the full rebuild cost of his home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Leaving aside the extra costs Mr. O'Connell mentioned, there is a gap of between €70,000 and €80,000 for him simply to replace the home he originally bought. That is separate to accommodation and storage. There is a gap of more than €80,000 just with the build costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps I could get quick responses from Donegal and Mayo in the six seconds I have left.