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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (13 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a Departmental review of community pharmacy services; if he is currently engaging with an organisation (details supplied) on the concerns of community pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27919/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to the meeting. This is our final meeting of pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill 2022. I welcome from the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, IPAV, Mr. Donald MacDonald, director of Hooke and MacDonald, and Mr. Patrick Davitt, chief executive of IPAV. From the Construction Industry...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Who will make the opening statement on behalf of the Irish Home Builders Association?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I thank our guests for their opening statements. I am not sensing a warm welcome for this legislation from industry. That is the benefit of having pre-legislative scrutiny. We get to engage with all participants and stakeholders. I will go to the members now. I call Senator Fitzpatrick for the first slot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I will bring him in very briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I might just move on to the next round of questions but we can come back. I hear what Mr. Farrell is saying and I will come back to it. I call Deputy Gould.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I will bring in Mr. Farrell, because he wanted to comment on that, and then we will move on. I am sorry but I have to keep things moving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Who would like to take that for two minutes? I call Mr. Moran.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Would that uncertainty, in any case, drive down the price of the land?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Surely if the price is right, land will be sold. We are getting sidetracked. I am going to bring in Deputy O'Callaghan and return to the committee rota.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Where people are sitting on those sites, that is where the zoned tax comes in. Maybe that is the incentive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Exactly. Let someone else take it on. I have the sense that there is agreement that land value sharing is a good thing in terms of planning and sustainability, and is for the common good. It is the actions of the State that increased the value of that land so the State designates, through the planning process, that the land is suitable and needed for development. The zoning and planning...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry to interrupt but the distortion I am talking about is not a distortion as regards an upwards price. Is it creating a distortion through downwards pressure because that is ultimately-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I do not think anything we do in the planning system should be overnight cliff-edge deliverables. There are unintended consequences of saying this will be done right here and right now.