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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is, but my point is different. Our local authorities have done their job properly. I understand we might have ten or 15 commercial buildings subject to these exempted developments. If three out of ten are in breach, we have a problem. If a Department and IPAS cannot do their job properly, I am not sure we should extend exempted development status. We should not give that status to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In basing the fee on the LSRD preplanning consultation, were there discussions between departmental officials and the Local Government Management Agency? The agency has repeatedly told the committee the fees do not reflect the amount of time------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just let me finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It continually comes to us telling us the fees set do not compensate for the time officials spend on these decisions. Separate to the Minister of State deciding to take LSRD and apply it to this, were there discussions on whether this was commensurate to the level of work done by planning authorities on these matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask that the Minister of State undertake to speak to his colleagues in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and that a joint note be given to this committee on the first matter, particularly on the number of buildings and enforcements. I urge his Department to be more proactive in engaging with counterparts in the Department of Children, Equality,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: On this issue, there is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Finally, we should not give exemptions to people who abuse them. There have been three cases. I know the one in my constituency very well. Our local authority was exasperated at the lengths it had to go to get the property owner, IPAS, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to comply with the most basic level of fire safety in a building in which we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a quick question, a comment and a request to the committee. So that I am getting my facts right, am I correct that the original exempted development status for accommodation for people with temporary protection was for three years and for people with international protection was for two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to understand that the quality of the accommodation we are talking about is significantly below that of direct provision or standard homeless emergency accommodation, for example. I know that because I go in and out of a few of these facilities. In general, these are large rooms with multiple beds or bunk beds in large communal spaces with outdoor portaloos and limited...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a request to our committee rather than to the Minister of State but the committee appreciates the Minister of State's support.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications and total funding sought from individual local authorities under the land acquisition fund; how much funding has been approved and drawn down to date by local authorities; and if there are plans for future land acquisition funding for local authorities. [33849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications and total funding sought from approved housing bodies under the land acquisition fund; how much funding has been approved and drawn down to date by AHBs; and if there are plans for future land acquisition funding for AHBs. [33850/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the required amendments to the section 25 (2) (b) (II) of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 (details supplied) will be introduced; and to detail any assessment that has taken place in terms of the impact of the new amending legislation on registrations. [33851/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many AHBs are currently affected by the existing wording of section 25 (2) (b) (II) of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 in terms of their ability to register. [33852/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline a timeline for the roll-out of a scheme for approved housing bodies affected by defective concrete block. [33853/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Funding (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how much funding from the state's EU National Recovery and Resilience Plan has been earmarked and drawn down to date for the delivery of social and affordable housing; how this EU funding is being administered; and if this funding is additional to existing State funding provided through Housing For All. [33854/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Funding (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how much funding from the state's EU National Recovery and Resilience Plan has been earmarked and drawn down to date for the retrofitting of social housing. [33855/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the revolving fund established under Rebuilding Ireland and administered by the Housing Agency. [33856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in Direct Provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to deliver the additional 15% affordable housing in the Poolbeg SDZ including whether he or his cabinet colleagues has met with NAMA and discussed the transfer of NAMAs 20% equity stake in the SDZ lands to Dublin City Council to assist them in ensuring the delivery of...