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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. [15607/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, there have been significant problems with the implementation of the cost rental tenant in situ scheme. There have been very small numbers of applications and even lower numbers of purchases. Of course, there is an ongoing delay with the processing and progress of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. Can the Minister give us an update on whether he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The number of applications has been tiny and the number of purchases has been in the tens. Not a single one of the tenants affected has been transferred onto an affordable rent. The application process is too cumbersome and people do not know about the scheme. It is another of the Minister's failures. He is now telling us that none of that can change until there is change to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true, as the Minister knows.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is evading questions as usual. Off you go.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And the €20 million.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So the answer is "No".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This relates to extensions as well as alterations, if I am correct. There is a fairly significant Celtic-tiger era development in my constituency. The developer fell into financial difficulty after having completed only one third of the development and then got stuck in terms of inability to complete the development. The developer went into receivership and a receiver took over. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----full stop?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I believe the timelines are one of the important bits of this process. Will there be any public consultation before the Minister decides those timelines or will that be negotiated with the commission and then published?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The opening line of subsection (3) states the commission "may" request. Is there a reason it is not "shall", given the nature of it? Are there circumstances where there would not be a need?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There may not be a need.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This might be a very unfair question but for those of us who do not think in hundreds of thousands of tonnes, what kind of scale of surface water, lake or weir would this involve?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is very large. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What exactly does the amendment do?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 1186 replaces groundwater abstraction with surface water-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment replaces "groundwater abstraction" with "groundwater or surface water abstraction".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, groundwater would be aquifers whereas surface water would be things like a reservoir or a weir. Is that the difference?