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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 (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that, but my question is not so much about the timeline, because even if we change that, the scenario still arises. This is not an argument against it. I am just trying to understand it. Because the levy applies effectively from the point at which the zoning was granted, which is a year or two years ago, depending on where one was in the planning cycle, whether I was due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is Mr. Hogan saying that, even with the existing timeline, there is potential for someone to accelerate a development? If a person were to get in and commence prior to the establishment of the register would the levy be avoided? My understanding is that the levy will apply from the point of zoning. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Anyone with existing planning permission is not in any way affected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In that sense, it does not add any additional cost to anyone who has existing zoning and existing planning permission if they ensure they get it built out before the next re-evaluation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As long as that permission was granted before December 2024 under the transitional mechanisms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: They would be liable and, therefore, in theory it should not place any additional cost on the developer or purchaser of units which have planning permission granted before December 2024.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is irrespective of when they acquired the land or when it was zoned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not matter if they commence in 2025, 2026 or 2027.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In some senses, the valuation is the point at which the zoning is set-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----but the liability is triggered from when the planning is granted, post 2024.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. That is clear. I am also keen to understand the interaction with the development levies. At an earlier stage when we were dealing with the planning and development Bill, it was suggested that when we did pre-legislative scrutiny on this, the legislation underpinning this scheme would be published but then worked into the Bill. Is that still the intention or will the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to press the witnesses to commit one way or another. It sounds like a decision has not been made as to whether these will be two separate Bills. The Department might still integrate this legislation into the planning and development Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go back to one of Senator Fitzpatrick's questions to be clear about the matter. The rate of the levy will be set in the legislation. That means the money will come into the local authority. The capital programme of the local authority will decide how that money will be spent, which means the elected members will not have any role in the actual expenditure. Mr. Hogan suggested that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there any shape to that yet or is it just the principle that there will have to be some ring-fencing? Will it be decided at a later point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For those of us who are not as familiar with how the expenditure of development contributions is ultimately decided, as it currently stands, what role do elected members have in the process of making the decision as to how and where that money is spent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that separate to the capital programme of the local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not familiar with that process. From my brief time on South Dublin County Council, I know that the capital programme is a decision of the chief executive and the executive who present it to the elected members. Is it the case that the development contribution scheme takes a separate portion of the capital spend that has to approved by elected members or is it that there a more general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no formal role for elected members to say this money in capital spend should be spent on X in the development contribution scheme as it stands. The witnesses are talking about a set of rules and-or guidelines that try to apportion some spending to the immediate area where this levy has been raised and the rest to wherever the executive decides under its capital programme.