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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. We will meet for the entire day.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come back in when the Minister gives his response.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That does not make a lot of sense. If that was actually the case, then the Bill would not list any organisations and would just have a general provision. However, a decision was taken to include some organisations and then have a general provision to give the Minister discretion. Clearly, the ones that are listed are more important in the sense that they always have to be included and then...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If more prescribed bodies are added in the regulations, they will be included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We may not need it, but if the meeting is going a little longer we have flexibility at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all the witnesses for attending and for their opening statements. I can hear the frustration in their voices, and we understand how frustrating it is to have to come back here over and over again. However, it is also important that other people in this building hear that things not only have not got better but, in some sense from the testimony given at the start, have actually got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the gap between the grant Mr. O'Connell will get and the full rebuild cost of his home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Leaving aside the extra costs Mr. O'Connell mentioned, there is a gap of between €70,000 and €80,000 for him simply to replace the home he originally bought. That is separate to accommodation and storage. There is a gap of more than €80,000 just with the build costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps I could get quick responses from Donegal and Mayo in the six seconds I have left.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to discuss the amendments or the section. I have three really simple questions on the briefing note we were given the following day, just for clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason is that this is materially relevant to the amendment but I do not mind as long as I get to ask for clarity before we move off section 11.