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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to temper some of the Minister of State's surprise. The SPPRs in the guidance document are quite good, as I have said publicly, but the difficulty is that they are decided by the Minister. If there are to be statutory mandatory planning rules, they should be passed by the Oireachtas. I do not want to open up this debate as we have had it. My issue is not with the idea of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make my point. A number of SPPRs have fallen foul of the courts and are no longer mandatory in practice. That is why all the judicial reviews of SHDs in conflict with the development plans were lost. There was a very large number, with which I can provide the Minister of State if he wants. I realise I am not going to convince the Minister of State but I put it to him that some of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: SPPRs are not currently approved by the Cabinet; they are agreed only by the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 183: In page 64, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(e) prescribed bodies,”. I will withdraw this amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 185: In page 65, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(g) board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Language Planning Officers and Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 192: In page 65, line 21, after “rural” to insert “and Gaeltacht”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 194: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 200: In page 66, lines 6 and 7, to delete “and the assessment of any application for development consent under Part 4”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment is self-explanatory. We had a lengthy discussion in the previous session with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, about adding other areas which should be included in the list of 15 areas of section 24 for consideration when issuing national planning statements. As I said to the Minister when he was here earlier, I appreciate that the section 24(1) does not preclude the adding of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go further than Deputy O'Callaghan on the spending because this is something I have been tracking very carefully for quite a number of years. During Covid-19, for the first time, the capital allocation was spent in full. Initially, this was on Covid measures. In many cases, then, it was spent on-site improvements. Again, these are very welcome but the number of new...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some questions that will not be dealt with in a few minutes. I am conscious that it is 5.10 p.m. and we were supposed to be finished at 5 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will not get this done.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have had part of this discussion before. The Minister of State will know that, in 2019, the expert group on Traveller accommodation was published. This was a hugely significant report. The Housing Agency and Professor Michelle Norris had undertaken a very detailed study of the Traveller accommodation programmes which had been published by the Department and the Housing Agency some years...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I mentioned recommendations 7, 9 and 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, in fairness to the Minister of State, he has given us much more detailed responses than we got the last day.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to respond specifically to the points the Minister of State raised. I will not take too much time on this but it is important. It is almost five years since these recommendations were made. It was July 2019. It seems to me that that is plenty of time to consider whether to progress any of them. With respect to recommendation B.2, the Minister of State talked about the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a sensible amendment for two reasons. If, for example, a local authority is doing a development plan, co-ordinated area plan or priority urban area plan, and if the local authority is of the view that there is a need for affordable housing, one of the ways of ensuring that can be delivered is through making such a zoning available. Let us keep in mind that zoning can be for things...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy O'Callaghan has made a very good point about the Chivers site because, from memory, the developer doubled the price of the site from €5 million to €10 million. If the councillors had been able to apply an affordable housing zoning condition to the land, that could not have happened and that site could be used in a more useful way. However, it also misses the point of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even better.