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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Pat Casey: As there is a lack of infrastructure where we can build homes and local authorities, in dezoning land we have increased land prices overnight. That will haunt us down the road unless this serious issue is addressed. All we are asking is that we build homes where we have tier 1 infrastructure, including water, sewerage and public transport, but we are told "No". Three towns in my county...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2021)

Pat Casey: ...in their home by the end of the year. The national cost rental scheme is another first for this Bill. It is the first ever cost rental scheme delivering by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency, which is another Bill the Minister is bringing through the House at the same time. It is tasked with delivering cost rental and affordable homes for our...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: ...radical yet responsible policies to get a grip on our housing crisis. Regrettably there are too many politicians in this Chamber and outside it, whose sole concern is to maximise the politics of Ireland's housing crisis and not offer solutions to it. We have even seen Fine Gael Dáil candidates state publicly that there is no homelessness crisis outside Dublin and that many of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (26 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: 142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement between his Department, local residents and Wicklow County Council regarding ongoing land management access and maintenance of the Glen of Imaal firing range; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49108/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: ...I would be fully supportive of the need for county development plans and local development plans to be developed to a much higher level of detail. We need to clearly indicate what every piece of land will be used for and the type of design that will be used. A great deal more effort must be put into the consultation also. At that point and from there on I would not have a problem with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion. (13 Nov 2019)

Pat Casey: ...for the Travelling community in Ashford, a relatively rural part of County Wicklow. It was through engagement with the community that we delivered that project in quite a short timeframe. One of the landowners came up with an alternative suggestion regarding the layout and the council swapped some of the land. The process of engagement through local authorities, local authority members...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (22 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contact his Department has had with EUROSTAT on the classification of the Land Development Agency as being on balance sheet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43549/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ..., SHDs, with which I have a problem. I am not being critical but trying to be as practical as possible. I will give an example of that from last week when the committee was discussing the Land Development Agency, LDA. It concerns local area plans. In Wicklow, a number of local area plans were adopted in 2006 but were not reviewed after the six-year period because of the economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ...developers proceeded to submit an application directly to the board, can they be said to be serious about delivering homes or are they merely interested in getting planning permission to flip the land? I ask for the indulgence of the Chair because I have been sitting here since this morning. I think I am entitled to a bit more than two minutes. Having spent three years on the whole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ...focused on how we can deliver affordable housing. We might have different views on how that is achieved, but that is the ultimate aim of everyone present. It is disappointing that 60% of State land is to be used for private housing. I have a fundamental problem with that. Is this adding another layer to the bureaucracy? At the moment local authorities and AHBs are delivering social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I am not against the Land Development Agency, I just have some reservations and concerns about it and feel that it could potentially do more. One of the key things that has come across today is that it could bring about stability in development to prevent cycles occurring. I fully accept the concept that, in a time of recession, this agency might be in a position to continue building when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ...of the rents payable. If 40% are deemed to be controlled by the State, the CSO or EUROSTAT could say there was too much State control and that the whole lot should be on-balance sheet. Then the Land Development Agency would not be able to go any further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The more we go through the Bill, the more holes we find in it and the more questions are raised about it. How we manage land now and into the future is how we will develop affordability, so we are considering critical legislation. Something is needed to try to control and manage land but I do not know if this legislation is the vehicle to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: On the role of the LDA, I did not read into the legislation what our guests have read into it. Unless the LDA has a function in acquiring land for future use, it will not serve its purpose. One of its primary objectives is to stockpile land for future use. I have an issue with State land being sold to the LDA at market value. Whether it is HSE or CIÉ land, the State bought it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I would not call it stockpiling but buying strategic land in advance. Otherwise, we are back into the market cycle again where the State comes in too late to purchase land that has already been zoned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank representatives from both bodies for their presentations. We keep coming back to how we achieve affordability. Land cost has been identified as a critical part of that. While Project Ireland 2040 is concentrating on stronger urban growth with higher densities and brownfield sites, the LDA can form part of the solution. When we talk about land, even when talking about the agency,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ...the Minister's statement when we tried to get the cap for local authorities raised to €6 million. He questioned the ability of local authorities to do that yet he is handing €1.25 billion to a land development agency with relatively no oversight. What are the witnesses' comments on the oversight of the LDA? One sees that the agency will be allowed to set up joint ventures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: I thank the Department and the LDA for the presentations. How we manage our land and affordability is critical. As such, I welcome the establishment of the LDA, albeit I have some questions about the establishment process and how oversight will be carried out. I will start on the oversight issue. It concerns the oversight of the LDA and, subsequently, any subsidiary of it. When I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: ...60% private or commercial activity on the State side. That means out of the 150,000 houses proposed over the 20 years, only 60,000 will be social and affordable. The rest will be private. If this Land Development Agency ends up on-balance sheet, does it collapse? Has it failed in its purpose or can it deliver if it is on-balance sheet? We are trying to look at an agency that is going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Pat Casey: Yes, and we are trying to deal with that unknown as we are passing this legislation. The disappointing thing today is that 60% of State land could end up being used for private development to get over this scenario.