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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I would take a break at some point in the three hours. If we only intend to continue for a short time, I could push that out and we could continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin only has a couple more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Does anybody else wish to come in? No. Okay, we will take those four questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kelly. I call Senator Cummins. I will then ask one brief question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kelly. I ask him to send the committee some detail regarding what it is that is expected would or should be contained in a remedial environmental impact assessment, EIA, or a remedial Natura impact statement, NIS. It is not something that I have come across before. I am familiar enough with what goes into an EIA or an environmental impact assessment report, EIAR, but not a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: We would appreciate some detail in that regard and we will circulate the information to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Fire away, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the members. I thank Mr. Kelly, Ms Brady and Ms Holohan for their attendance. It has been helpful to us in our scrutiny of the heads of this proposed Bill. We will proceed to draft a pre-legislative scrutiny report, approve it and furnish it to the Department and the Minister as soon as we can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: That was not agreed by the committee. I understood that we would just have this one session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I understand that there is some urgency with this legislation. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: As the Deputy knows, and this issue was discussed this morning in our private session, the timetable for committees is chock-a-block. We managed to fit this meeting in because there was a cancellation in the schedule and it was agreed to do this on that basis. I am not prepared to take a risk in this regard. We also have the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021, Private Members' Bills,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is up to the committee members who wish to do so to turn up. Those of us who turned up went through this proposed legislation in detail. I call Senator Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Senator Cummins. I call Deputy Cian O’Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I do not doubt that we need to get this proposed legislation right. However, having another session with other witnesses does not mean that we would necessarily get it any more right. The contributions we have had today have been substantial. Deputy Ó Broin suggested having a meeting on Friday. Another week would then be required for the pre-legislative scrutiny report to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is not unprecedented that we have one PLS session. The Tailte Éireann Bill, for example, took one PLS session, as did others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I am not making comparisons between the Bills, but it is not unprecedented for us to have one PLS session with the Department. We have done that before and we are likely to do it again. It is my intention from today's session, with the questions and answers and the help we got from the Department, that we proceed to compile the PLS report, which can be drafted and put before us as soon as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Okay. That is grand. I have thanked all the Department officials, so we can let them go.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby individuals and couples who wish to purchase a second-hand home but earn above the limit for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan; the supports available to persons in this situation in the context of the Housing for All strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if second-hand homes are to be included in a Housing for All initiative or related schemes other than the Rebuilding Ireland home loan in cases in which an individual or couple purchasing earn more than the income threshold for this scheme but still require support. [49505/21]