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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is currently no appeals mechanism available to schools via the NCSE website; when it will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35926/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to state the number of social homes delivered via buy-and-renew in 2024; and the average cost of the delivery of these units to the Exchequer. [35402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a report from the CCMA on the review of section 10; and to provide an update on whether he intends to review the current deficit funding and competitive tendering that is used to award section 10-funded services. [35716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the rural planning guidelines, Gaeltacht planning guidelines and planning guidelines for the islands. [35993/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the Mulcahy report or a summary of the report into planning irregularities in Donegal. [35994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of S 181(2)(a) orders that have been issued with respect to accommodation provided by the International Protection Accommodation Service for people seeking international protection and people in receipt of temporary protection; and to explain the legal purpose of these orders. [35745/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 576 of 24 June 2025, if consideration was given to the application of the new jobseeker’s pay-related benefit to claimants with open existing jobseeker's benefit claims; if not, the reason this was not considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36264/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before Uisce Éireann deals with the final question about the planning priority and the consents, I will throw in a question for Mr. Tarrant to answer after that. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities has expressed some concern about connection policies where they are demand-led. In one of the reports recently it suggested that it should have similar powers to its counterpart in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Be careful what you wish for.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. When Deputy Darragh O'Brien was the Minister for housing and he launched a once-in-a-generation review on consolidation of the planning and development Acts, one of his main arguments was that the 2000 Act had been amended so many times that the legislation was unwieldy, too difficult to understand and overly complex...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I briefly comment?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise to the Minister. I meant to say this on section 2. At some point during the Minister's responses to any of the clusters of amendments or the sections, it would be only right if he was able to give us any additional detail he has about the amendments he is intending to submit in the Seanad, that is, both the additional transitional amendments as well as the so-called permitted...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations for consideration by the planning authority to ensure compliance with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development.”. I want to make a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is precisely the problem. If this change to planning legislation had been included in the Planning and Development Act which we spent two years passing through the House, as a committee we could have asked, for example, planning law experts, professional planners and legal experts who specialise in Aarhus Convention compliance their views on this. One of the points I made on Second...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, in consultation with the Minister for Justice and with the approval of Cabinet, introduce regulations to place High Court good practice guidelines on a statutory footing in order to have legally binding statutory timelines for the hearing of Judicial Reviews and for the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept the technical explanation but would just make one point. I ask the Minister to examine the principle behind this amendment and to discuss it with the Minister for justice and also, in the course of his work as Minister for housing, with the relevant members of the Judiciary. We need to fix this bit of the system too. There is little value in having statutory timelines for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to my two amendments in this grouping. I said at the outset that we are not opposed in principle to a time-limited extension of duration. The challenge, however, is that there is no point giving somebody an extension of duration if they cannot demonstrate that something has changed and that what was previously unviable is now viable. I therefore think there needs to be some...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(b) an explanation as to why the development has not yet commenced, a viability assessment setting out what has changed that would allow the development to commence if an extension of duration is granted, and a detailed schedule of works setting out when the various stages of development will...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 14: "In page 13, line 25, to delete “18 months” and substitute “6 months”."

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 15: In page 13, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(h) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations to the planning authority on any request for an extension of duration under this section. The regulations may include provision for: (i) the publication of public notices, on site, in newspapers and on digital...