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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I return to the issue of compact growth and will pick up where Mr. Hussey left off. It seems part of the problem is the definition within the NPF. Looking, for example, at recent residential development in the greater Dublin area, GDA, one could argue that the vast majority of it is compact growth as per the definitions in the NPF. However, most of it is not really compact growth in terms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Hogan and his team have an open ear as they finalise their amendments on any of these issues. In terms of going beyond just raising some concerns, are there either forms of language or ways of measuring this that could assist in improving it further? I take Mr. Hussey's point that it is an improvement on what was there previously but, thinking about Dublin again, there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question which might act as a segue onto what Deputy Leddin is likely to raise, and rightly so. There is also an interaction between compact growth and balanced regional development as it is set out. Has the advisory committee a view on how those things should best interact? Are there areas within the current draft where it would like to see further movement or change to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make an observation and then put two questions to Mr. Hogan. I have a lot of sympathy with Deputy Leddin’s point. My colleagues from the regional cities will be making exactly the same point. I want to add an additional observation for Mr. Hogan and his team and it builds on my questions to the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is that there is also an issue about where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That essentially means that commencement of the new section is not going to happen until this review is concluded, subject to a decision of the incoming government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Walsh for that. I might conclude with a request for whomever is on the next committee, because none of us may be here at that stage. The version the Department gave us after our previous meeting, which included the tracked changes, was brilliant. It made our lives so much easier. I really urge the Department to provide the members of the committee under the Thirty-fourth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the total cost between the two options as opposed to just the difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will see it when the report is published. I take it the total cost will be in there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For purposes of clarity, the comparison is between a serviced site at the edge of Adamstown versus an unserviced greenfield site in Leixlip. I do not mean it is those actual locations, but is that the comparison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some are more like the City Edge project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In terms of pace, is the issue the number of applications or the length of time to process the applications or both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is not the number of applications but the length of time and the decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are ending on all the good news basically. That is great.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government has filed a declaration of intervention in the case of South Africa versus Israel at the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45380/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of national gas demand, by sector (details supplied); if he will provide data on the changes in demand for each sector over the past two years; and his views on the implications of this demand for Ireland’s energy and climate goals. [45427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the community renewable energy projects that have been energised and are exporting electricity to the grid; the volume of electricity these projects have exported; the number of community renewable energy projects that have begun construction, by projects that are 100% community-owned...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of community renewable energy projects that have received funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; the breakdown of each project and the amount of funding it has received, in tabular form; and his views on the Government’s support for community-led renewable energy initiatives. [45429/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the number of heat pumps installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and well-being scheme for 2023 and to the end of October 2024, in tabular form. [45449/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (6 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the number of oil and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and well-being scheme for 2023 and to the end of October 2024, in tabular form. [45450/24]