Results 12,061-12,080 of 25,999 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 191: In page 39, line 32, after "Agency" to insert "or a subsidiary DAC".
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies for their amendments and contributions. I will make a couple of general points. I would not underestimate the positive effect of the activation of public and State-owned land into the housing market and the effect it will have in driving further private land activation. We have seen examples of that through the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. Land...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I have outlined my position on exactly why the CPO powers have to be proportionate. That is based on advice from the Attorney General. Deputy Gould is right that we need to get the increase in supply and capacity. For places like St. Kevin's in Cork, people should support housing developments and not object to them. We have to get real on how we use State-owned land and on the effect...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not need to clarify it at all. The record speaks for itself. I hope Deputy Gould and his party will start to genuinely support housing developments for working people across the country. I know the St. Kevin's site well. We will move on with the amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 194: In page 40, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(4) In subsection (1), “land owned by the Agency” includes land owned by a subsidiary DAC where the subsidiary DAC is, for the purposes referred to in subsection (3), only performing on behalf of the Agency in relation to that land a function specified in subsection (3).”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: The audio was breaking up somewhat, so I missed some of the contribution but heard the broader point that the Deputy raised. The amendment seeks to remove from the section the reference to Part V of the Planning and Development Act, as he outlined. Part V should be the bare minimum, however. If the reference to Part V were removed, it would mean that for joint ventures or anything else in...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: It does not.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, it does not exempt it from Part V.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: It does not exempt it from Part V planning provisions. I am not interrupting but just for clarification, it does not.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: To be helpful, not to interrupt, genuinely, it does not provide for that. I am not trying to derive a correlation but we have just discussed removing reference to Part V. That may have had the unintended consequence of doing that. That was not my amendment, that was an amendment put down by Deputy Ó Broin. Leaving that aside, Part V provisions would apply to it. I am not trying to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Well, I have given it but I can give it to the Deputy in writing if he likes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: That refers to Part 9, it is not Part V of the Planning Act. I know there is a lot in this but for clarification sake, I can say that it does not refer to Part V. It is up to the Deputy to proceed as he wishes, no problem.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes, exactly that, thanks Chair. It references Part 9 of the Bill that we are debating right now. If Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes, we can give him that in writing.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely not.