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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everybody for their presentations. While today's session is obviously primarily on the national planning framework and climate change, given that the Cabinet agreed the revised housing targets and that those targets were the subject of my last exchange with Mr. Hogan when he was with us on the national planning framework in July, I will start with some questions on that area. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously, I understand the difference between setting a macro target to 2040 and then what an individual Government does with regard to how it meets those targets within a five-year cycle. Given the statutory importance of the national planning framework, and given the fact that if you are not meeting unmet demand over a number of years unmet demand grows and therefore what you will need is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The decade from 2030 to 2040.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: In case we do not get to the detail of this, Mr. Hogan mentioned there was a methodology with regard to both the 50,000 but also in the numbers we have heard today. Is that a methodology Mr. Hogan can share with this committee in writing before the Dáil is dissolved later this week? A lot of us really want to try and understand this. When we read the commission's report, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is hugely different from the Housing Commission's by a factor of about 100,000 from the bottom range to the top range. It is maybe 215,000 to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Not on unmet demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How does Mr. Dalton compare or contrast an ESRI report that has no consideration of unmet demand from the Housing Commission's specific consideration of unmet demand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what the ESRI report says. There is a very clear footnote in the ESRI report saying that it does not take into account unmet demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I would have said Mr. Hogan is as frustrated as the rest of us with this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: He is not a bad guy and he is always trying, I say to Senator Boyhan-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Of the 12, where it is on the scale?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am way over time but I think it would be really useful if the committee members could see the analysis; maybe not the options as that might be politically sensitive. I do think we should get a copy of the analysis. There is a huge gap between the two assessments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I would say that he would like to say that they should have been published years ago but he could not possibly say that in a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I return to the issue of compact growth and will pick up where Mr. Hussey left off. It seems part of the problem is the definition within the NPF. Looking, for example, at recent residential development in the greater Dublin area, GDA, one could argue that the vast majority of it is compact growth as per the definitions in the NPF. However, most of it is not really compact growth in terms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Hogan and his team have an open ear as they finalise their amendments on any of these issues. In terms of going beyond just raising some concerns, are there either forms of language or ways of measuring this that could assist in improving it further? I take Mr. Hussey's point that it is an improvement on what was there previously but, thinking about Dublin again, there is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question which might act as a segue onto what Deputy Leddin is likely to raise, and rightly so. There is also an interaction between compact growth and balanced regional development as it is set out. Has the advisory committee a view on how those things should best interact? Are there areas within the current draft where it would like to see further movement or change to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will make an observation and then put two questions to Mr. Hogan. I have a lot of sympathy with Deputy Leddin’s point. My colleagues from the regional cities will be making exactly the same point. I want to add an additional observation for Mr. Hogan and his team and it builds on my questions to the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is that there is also an issue about where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That essentially means that commencement of the new section is not going to happen until this review is concluded, subject to a decision of the incoming government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Walsh for that. I might conclude with a request for whomever is on the next committee, because none of us may be here at that stage. The version the Department gave us after our previous meeting, which included the tracked changes, was brilliant. It made our lives so much easier. I really urge the Department to provide the members of the committee under the Thirty-fourth...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What is the total cost between the two options as opposed to just the difference?