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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: It is a good point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I think the Derelict Sites Act 1990 specifies what is classified as urban areas. We are saying this will be within town and settlement boundaries. I think the Derelict Sites Act 1990 has a big list of defined urban areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: It is a good point. I imagine the vacant homes officers will have a role in the identification and collation of these derelict site lists and an inspection role. It is not that the role for permissions or consents will go to the town centre first officers - we are calling it a town centre first application to indicate that it is not a normal section 34. Applicants can go the normal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is part of the reason to have the Minister informed that a site has been put on the register or it has been sitting there for two years. It is to give eyes to him or her on how efficiently the changes to the CPO process are working. I think there was a €150 million grant recently for local authorities as seed capital to start compulsory purchase ordering buildings. It will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I think the Deputy is referring to people who are off the grid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I suppose somebody could have a well. They could have an on-site private wastewater treatment plant. They could have a load of solar panels, batteries and a small turbine within that urban settlement. They would be disconnected from water and electricity. However, it would not be apparently derelict. It is not that we would go out and source dereliction solely by that criterion....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: The bunch of hippies next door.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: True.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: It may not be within the settlement, but it is worth considering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: We could probably allow an appeals process under that particular fairly unique situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Yes. Something to be considered arose from our committee sessions. In jurisdictions that have much tighter control, observance and actions on dereliction and vacancy, there is provision for "meanwhile use". Somebody who does not want their building to fall under the derelict sites Act, can offer it up so that it is providing some sort of social community benefit and is therefore left out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is a good point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: When we had the Peter McVerry Trust in before, we discussed the challenges of that. It has done quite a bit of that kind of refurbishment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: And it is difficult to do because you are dealing with traffic management, neighbours, deliveries, limited site scope -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: And architecturally attractive as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: On the CPO, is it that local authorities are only allowed to CPO a building for the provision of social housing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. We will discuss how we will advance the three which we discussed today at our first private meeting in January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Correct. We will meet on Tuesday, 19 January at 11 a.m. to finalise the pre-legislative scrutiny report on the general scheme of the residential tenancies (right to purchase) Bill. As this is our final public meeting of the year, I want to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and to thank everyone for their very collegial work this year. We got through another...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Yes. Thank you everybody.