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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: It was reintroduced in April 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: There were four more questions but we are almost out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Does a representative of the Simon group wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: To return now to policy measures, when the moratorium was introduced everybody was in support of it. Many of us knew that deciding when the moratorium was going to be lifted would be an extremely difficult political decision to make. Is it too early to determine whether the moratorium had an impact on landlords' decision to leave the sector? That was one of the reasons put out there, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: In regard to the tenant in situscheme, if I had to make the decision now on a moratorium or the tenant in situscheme, I think I would lean more towards ramping up the tenant in situscheme. That would be more effective because, whereas the moratorium was just putting off an event, the tenant in situscheme was actionable and quantifiable, by yourselves and others. Would Mr. McCafferty agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That makes absolute sense. Mr. McCafferty just mentioned cost rental and in terms of the provision of housing in Ireland, we will probably look back in a decade's time and say that the introduction of cost rental was one of the most transformative ways of procuring and providing housing for people. It provides that long-term, secure tenancy, which very few people in Ireland currently have....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: We have spent a lot of time talking about the delays in planning and about resources within the planning system. An increase in resources would obviously help but emergency powers have been introduced in relation to planning for local authority construction of social homes on land that is already zoned. I do not know what impact that is having as yet but would be interested in looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: We are eager to see that right to housing inserted into the Constitution. Mr. Stanley was before the committee previously with the Home For Good campaign group and assisted us with that issue previously. The report has been awaited for quite some time now and we need to see some movement on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kavanagh for that comment. It was the last one on the subject today. I thank all the witnesses for their time. I realise that when they take time out of their day to be here, nobody else is doing their work back in the office and it builds up. Members realise and acknowledge the difficulty of the job done by staff at the front line. As I often say to local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding any prospecting licences issued with respect to lithium extraction in an area (details supplied); if any mining licence applications have been submitted for this site to date; his views on the potential environmental impact of mining in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the croí cónaithe grant funding creating additional legal charges for the loan applicant (details supplied); if engagement is ongoing with the main lenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25783/23]

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I read Silent Springby Rachel Carson many years ago and it was an eye-opener for me when I was studying planning and environmental management in Dublin Institute of Technology more than 20 years ago. It detailed humans poisoning nature for their own gain and I thought how ludicrous it is that we would kill and destroy in attempts to produce more. It makes no sense. How do we convey to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to the meeting. The committee meets again to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill 2022. I welcome the representatives from the County and City Management Association, Ms AnnMarie Farrelly, chief executive of Fingal County Council; Ms Máire Igoe, acting executive manager of Dublin City...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Ms Farrelly is probably aware that this is our third meeting on this matter. We met with Department officials last week. The Irish Planning Institute was in earlier this week. Next week, we will be meeting with construction developers and valuers. We could write to the Department about the clarification points raised by Ms Farrelly if there are common areas in respect of which we are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Will we come back to the question about the four zoning valuations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I want to bring in Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. I do not want to rush an answer to that question. May I bring in Deputy O'Callaghan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Does the Deputy have sufficient time? Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: The valuations are existing market value, existing use value-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That could be five or ten years later.