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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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Farrelly.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Having been through a full SDZ in Clonburris and the tail end of an SDZ and an SDZ amendment in Adamstown, I like that plan-led approach, although I appreciate the clunky nature of them. In some senses, if the UDZ goes through as outlined, with all of the benefits and flexibilities Ms Scully is proposing, it is hard to see how any local authority would use an SDZ process, given the...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I broadly share Ms Scully's assessment. Specifically within Dublin city, and this applies more to those in the city than those of us in the county, there is obviously the whole issue of smaller brownfield sites that could facilitate significant compact growth and mixed use. Does Ms Scully think that, as currently framed, the tool of the UDZ could be applied or do we need some kind of...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think it would be a very short answer.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am with Ms Igoe.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those two latter valuations are for the purposes of establishing the Part V discount.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is about the interaction and resourcing of those four valuations. That is perfect.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: As long as Ms Scully does not call us Senators-----

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make two comments and then I have another five questions, apologies. The first may be more for the committee’s report on this. It is not an enviable position to only have a real conversation about resourcing after the Bill has passed. I know that is not Ms Farrelly’s fault but it is almost too late at this stage. It may be valuable for us to say that when legislation...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that, I know there is a certain diplomacy in terms of what the CCMA can say to us, given that it will be in negotiations with the Department. I will make one general point, however. In the context of pre-legislative scrutiny, our job is to comment on the general scheme. The more clarity the committee has on what those staffing requirements might be, the stronger the recommendations in...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: LVS does and UDZ does not. That is interesting. Well spotted.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the issue around implications for unserviced land and the intertwining of the sharing and the RZLT and-----

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question in respect of a clarification of the clarifications, if that makes sense. The first one goes back to a point raised at the start on whether the valuation date is established at the point of rezoning or the creation of the development plan. Simpletons like me would not have noticed a difference between those two things. Ultimately, the zoning is when the...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Scully’s query is that, notwithstanding the fact that the legislation stipulates that the valuation would take place at the adoption of the last development plan, if there some material alternation to that development plan at a future point in time-----

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the indulgence of the Chair, could the same point be made in respect of other changes in policy? We teased this out with the Department. For example, when the updated design standards for apartments were published in 2018, including, for example, for the first time, co-living and build to rent, they obviously had an impact on land values. We saw that then in purchase prices. There is...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is interesting, because the Department seems to make a distinction between the market value and the transaction value, which, to me, just seems to be the market value at the most recent point at the purchase or sale of it. It had this fixed view that the market value is the value with the residential zoning at the point of the development plan. It was only indicating that the review was...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Department said that where there is a dispute, the same arbitration mechanism that is used for compulsory purchase orders will be employed. Do the witnesses think that could also contribute to delays, particularly with the very tight timeframe for the register?

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Very diplomatically put.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the special interim dividend mentioned in Parliamentary Questions (details supplied); if he will detail the mechanism through which the payments were made to large energy users; what the total value was for the dividend paid to the LEUs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25444/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the special interim dividend mentioned in Parliamentary Questions (details supplied); if the payments were subject to the revised estimate process; if not, what parliamentary scrutiny and oversight there was of these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25445/23]