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Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are not.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is fine.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: For reasons stated right through every hour of the debate and in every section of the Bill and every amendment we tabled. Fundamentally, we need a planning system and planning legislation that support the needs of our people. If you go outside this House and say to any normal person on the street the word "planning", the first word most will come back with is "delays". What do delays do?...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies. I will endeavour to answer as many of the questions as were put forward on this grouping - amendments Nos. 1 to 18, inclusive - as I possibly can. At the outset, and for the record of the House, this charge that this legislation is in any way, shape or form rushed is completely and utterly incorrect.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will give the timeline. In September 2021-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputies once. They will get their time and come back. In September 2021, there was a 15-month comprehensive review of the Planning and Development Act. This was asked for by the Government of the Office of the Attorney General. We are talking nearly three years on that. In December 2021, the planning advisory forum was established. It was made up of over 30 key...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Boyd Barrett does not have to speak to this grouping.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Chair? Deputy Healy-Rae deserves to be heard.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Just on this group of amendments.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Seanad amendments Nos. 1 and 2 relate to section 1, which sets out the Short Title and a standard technical provision providing for the commencement of the Bill. Amendment No. 1 moves the collective citation relating to the Residential Tenancies Act from Part 24 to Part 1 in order that all collective citations are contained together in section 1. This increases clarity for the reader. ...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is fine.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will do that. As I said, there are five proposed amendments to amendment No. 2. Amendments Nos. 1, 5, 6 and 7 to amendment No. 2, tabled by Deputies Ó Broin and Gould, seek to insert new subsections into section 1 of the Bill relating to proposed new reporting requirements. They propose that the Minister should report on the Bill's compliance with the Aarhus Convention before...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Members for their input. This is important legislation, which we debated on Second Stage as well. It will be appreciated by the approved housing body sector to deal with the AHBRA registration issue, and to legislate for the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme and for changes we have just discussed with regard to cost rental as the sector continues to grow throughout the country. I...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Watch that change.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have met cost rental tenants, single individuals, who have rented cost rental properties on their own. This mechanism is not brought in as a cost reduction measure for the AHB partners or indeed the LDA partners. The Deputy will have a view on that. I will just say it is not. As the Deputy has outlined already, at different times of their lives, people may want to share. Right now, the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: While it is a relevant point, it is not relevant to the legislation or indeed the section we are dealing with.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Through the Chair, this is not oral questions. We are dealing with important legislation here. A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, we can go down the road of me answering questions on every aspect of housing policy. Just to be fair to Deputy Healy-Rae on this, in respect of tenant purchase schemes through local authorities, they exist and are in place right now. The help to buy grant is a matter for...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Of course we will. Bígí cinnte faoi sin.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Tomorrow's meeting of the Oireachtas joint committee will be important as well. The Deputy will be able to look in further detail and ask further questions. I appreciate that he asked questions on Second Stage as well. This is the evolution of cost rental, a model that did not exist here less than three years ago. As we build up that scale, we will consider what might be a scheme of...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. We did discuss this matter. I welcome the support for the Bill. We know that in the instance of multiple occupancy, cost-rental tenants derive a number of benefits such as security of tenure, below-market rents and high-quality housing. However, in some cases it is envisaged that incomes could rise and, as individual circumstances change, there may be...