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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But that is only if that additional information is available or can be collated within the additional time. We know that one of the reasons there is a six-month time period for further information requests is that sometimes they are surveys of a seasonal nature or things where the information is not necessarily available. All I want to be very clear about - I think the Minister is saying...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not even a point. When we discussed this matter previously, there was some confusion as to whether this facility was already available. I cannot remember which Minister or Minister of State was with us, but I am pretty sure he said he would seek clarification and bring it back to the committee.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was Kieran O'Donnell who was here.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My memory is coming back to me now. Correct me if I am wrong-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----but Kieran O'Donnell was not able to answer clearly the question. Is it possible today, under the existing Act, for a planning authority to request an extension of time-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----in exactly the same way as here, other than the penalty, or is the penalty in the existing provision? The Minister calls it a refund; I call it a penalty. Let us split the difference.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is what Kieran said when we were asking him the last time.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A hundred per cent.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we have absolute clarity, subsection 98(4) is the procedure whereby the planning authority can ask the applicant for some extra time and the applicant can agree or not. That is new. That does not exist currently.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the Minister's benefit, the conversation we had previously was that there was an earlier formulation and it indicated that the applicant could provide an extension but there was lack of clarity as to whether the planning authority could request it. Kieran O'Donnell gave an undertaking to come back to the committee with a note clarifying exactly what is currently there and exactly what is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is quite important to clarify.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 671: In page 220, to delete lines 40 and 41, and in page 221, to delete lines 1 to 12.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 672: In page 221, to delete lines 21 and 22.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 98: In page 50, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “(j) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact assessment;”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 100: In page 51, line 11, after “Prosecutions” to insert “or any other person”.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain why he missed all of his affordable housing targets in 2023. [15880/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the fourth year since the Minister has taken office, he has missed all his affordable housing targets - every single one - and missed them very significantly. Of course, these targets were not sufficient in the first place. Will he explain to the House and, more importantly, to those people desperate to rent or buy homes affordably why he has missed those targets and what he will do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To say the Minister's response is Orwellian would be an understatement. Let us look at the facts. As regards his affordable purchase scheme, the only Government scheme that delivers anything close to genuinely affordable homes, he missed his target last year by 63%. As regards the cost-rental scheme, he missed his target by 59%. As regards the first home scheme, which he has lauded, he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course, the Minister is deliberately misrepresenting not only his failure to meet his own targets but also our party's policy. If people want to know Sinn Féin's policy, they can read it on the website. This is questions to the Minister. He can laugh, but the only affordable housing in my local authority last year was homes to purchase for €400,000-plus. As regards...