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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are we talking about amendment No. 941?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is also about working to establish rights of way. I am confused because the Minister of State seems to suggest that the ground on which he is not willing to accept the amendment is that the function is that of another agency, namely Tailte Éireann. The Land Registry, in Tailte Éireann, is just where you register. It holds the register. The amendment proposes that, in working...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Part of the thinking behind the amendment, as I understand it and bearing in mind that I am speaking on behalf of a party colleague, is that the local authority does not have an express obligation to vindicate a right of way. Therefore, would it not be good, whether in the formula of words in the amendment or a Report Stage amendment, to give local authorities the function to vindicate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To take this one step further, if the issue was an ongoing attempt to block access to a right of way, I presume a member of the public who is impacted negatively could make a formal complaint to the planning enforcement authority. Ultimately, would the local authority be empowered under this section to take legal action if such a thing were appropriate? Is it exactly the same as planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like a response from the Minister of State on amendment No. 945. It might be the same as the response to the Labour Party amendment as they are very similar.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect if things being seldom used was a reason for removing some of the Act, we would have large parts of our system removed. If we go back to our conversation on planning enforcement, many areas are seldom used. It is not an argument to get rid of them. Will the Minister of State explain in a little bit more detail why a decision was taken to remove a relatively significant section?...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have not finished the question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The second part of the question is whether the Minister of State can give reassurance that, having removed landscape conservation areas from the development plan process, consideration of the same thing by another name will even feature in the process? Given that so many other things are going on in a development plan, if it is not a requirement of the legislation, how will it feature? How...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 956: In page 441, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Costs in environmental matters 250. (1) This section applies to proceedings of the following kinds: (a) proceedings in the High Court by way of judicial review, or of seeking leave to apply for judicial review, of— (i) any decision or purported decision made or purportedly...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is possible to share that with the committee, it would be great.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1144: In page 648, line 25, after “fees” to insert “on a full cost recovery basis”. This is my final amendment and is the last chance for the Minister to be generous in this eight-week long saga.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Probably better to.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear hear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If you think about it, we have been in the basement for approximately 120 hours. There have been more than 1,000 amendments and 500 sections. Like the Minister and Chair, I want to first thank all the secretariat and Oireachtas staff. I thank the ushers who carried the Minister’s boxes in and out of the rooms outside, the broadcast staff, the transcription staff and the Bills Office...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, and for the longer documentation which is exceptionally helpful in our consideration of the general scheme. Will Community Law and Mediation give us some concrete instances where, under the operation of the circular as it currently stands, people it believes should have a right to access social housing supports have been denied? What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On what ground does Ms Wall think that group of people might become disentitled?