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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 347: In page 102, line 8, after “areas,” to insert “designation under the Gaeltacht Act 2012,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 349: In page 102, line 9, to delete “and cultural” and substitute “, cultural, Irish language, and nightlife”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 352: In page 102, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) such matters identified in paragraphs (a) to (e) specifically for the purposes of protecting the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities, including the promotion of Irish as the community language, in the case of any Gaeltacht Language Planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the first half of the amendment on demographic projections because this is key. The most recent round of development plans, when they were done, were obviously based in part on the housing need and demand assessment. There was the ESRI study of 2019 and then the Department's HNDA exercise with its local authority targets set below that. What individual planning authorities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Deputy Duffy's point about planned population, I presume that is a reference to the national planning framework in the sense that the national planning framework is trying to plan where the projected population growth is incentivised or encouraged to grow. I am asking the Minister of State to confirm it, but that would be my read of it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am saying this in defence of the use of the language, so the Minister of State might bear with me. I do not read that as the Government trying to plan population growth. Population growth projections are provided but what the national planning framework does is try to say where that should go because we do not want over-concentration of population growth in Dublin and the GDA and it has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. For absolute clarity, and it may help the Minister of State's officials at some later stage, the issue is that it is simply not appropriate - the OPR has made this case and I do not disagree - to have a blanket rule that a percentage of a development has to be X, Y or Z. That cannot be done. However, granular data on need could be built into the consent process that would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, on amendments Nos. 364 and 372. Lest the impression ever be given that I do not welcome anything the Government does, these are two helpful amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, despite their high quality, the Chair will be withdrawing them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just wish to say they are welcome. I am sure the Minister of State and his officials are aware, this committee held hearings and published a report in 2022 when we looked at this. I have two or three questions on this. This refers to "derelict land or sites". For clarity, does "sites" include property and not only refer to unused land? That would be helpful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Second, when we considered this matter in the committee, we heard a really good presentation from an academic in UCD who spoke at length about the Scottish model. The reason I raise this is that two things they seem to do particularly well in Scotland are that they not only have an accurate database of the number of vacant properties, but they also have a very good categorisation system so...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are all looking at it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the important recommendations our committee made to the Minister was the idea of creating a single national platform to integrate, compile and effectively organise existing and future data on vacancy and dereliction. The challenge at the moment is that some local authorities have decent data sets and some do not. There is no consistency. When the Minister of State gives the update,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for spotting such an important issue that I simply had not spotted in these two sections. I will give a bit of background because this issue has become a bit of a hobby-horse of mine. There is a widespread view in political and media circles that monotenure housing - having large numbers of working-class people living in the same place - is not good housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree.