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Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: It is the cost of building and managing. We will go through it on Committee Stage.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Many of the Deputies questions are rhetorical.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Of course.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: We have not even published the Report Stage amendments of the Land Development Agency Bill yet.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: That is just for clarification. We have not published the Report Stage amendments of the Land Development Agency Bill.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps it has a mole in the Bills Office.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: It would not surprise me.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (25 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I am grateful to the Leas-Chathaoirleach and indeed to all Senators for facilitating the debate on this urgent legislation in Seanad Éireann before the recess. I also wish to record my thanks to the Chief Whip and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage for enabling this Bill to be moved and read a Second Time today. In light of the prolonged challenges...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (25 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas do gach Seanadóir a ghlac páirt sa díospóireacht inniu. Is plé an-úsáideach agus an-dearfach a bhí ann. As my colleague, Senator Murphy, said, there are many aspects of the housing issue we can agree on. The one thing we should all be able to agree on is that we understand there is a crisis and a major problem.We need to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 155: In page 37, lines 3 and 4, to delete ", including an estimate, obtained by or on behalf of the relevant body, of the market value of the land".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 156: In page 37, to delete lines 7 to 9 and substitute the following: "(e) of section 50(3) and any information provided to the Agency under subsection (2), shall decide to acquire or refuse to acquire that land.".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 159: In page 37, line 28, after "land," to insert the following: "or, in relation to relevant public land referred to in Column (1) of Schedule 3*, the Schedule 1 public body referred to in Column (2) opposite the mention of the relevant public land concerned,".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 162: In page 37, to delete lines 30 and 31 and substitute the following: “(2) For the purpose of determining the market value of relevant public land, the valuation date shall be— (a) the date on which the Agency gives notice under section 51(4) to the relevant public body or, under section 52(3) to the Schedule 1 public body, that the land shall be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 167: In page 37, line 33, to delete “in default of agreement.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 168: In page 37, to delete line 35.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 171: In page 37, line 37, to delete "qualifications, training" and substitute "qualifications, membership of a professional body that may be required, training". These amendments are technical in nature and amend section 53(4), which deals with the matters the Minister may prescribe in relation to the process for the valuation of relevant public land to be transferred...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 172: In page 38, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: "(d) procedures and time limits to apply, including in relation to requests for further information or the giving of a notice of the determination,".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 173: In page 38, line 4, to delete "costs to be paid" and substitute "costs, if any, to be paid".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 176: In page 38, line 9, to delete "Sections 66and 67" and substitute "Section 66". These amendments are technical in nature and amend section 53(3) to correct that section 67 does not apply where the LDA is acquiring land under Part 7. Sections 66 and 67 provide that, where the LDA is acquiring land via compulsory purchase order, it can take possession of the land...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: To give clarification to the clarification, this relates to taking advance possession. It is where the LDA acquires land under Part 7 in advance of the land being vested in it. It is in these instances where we would not necessarily envisage compensation at that stage. We discussed the discounted value in detail earlier. It is in these instances, whereby it makes sense for the LDA to have...