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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: By way of understanding, part of the challenge is that because many of these models have been evolving in real time around schemes and the challenges of schemes, the LDA, which is purportedly a commercial entity, has to pay the passive rate of corporation tax. There is a 25% tax charge which is essentially adding to the rent of the tenant. In an average LDA property that is an extra...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is a different one and, again, I do not mean to be awkward. All of what I have said is the current state of play and these are the things people are talking about in the private rooms the witnesses and others are in. Is now not the time to sit down, look at the range of projects that are there and try to find what is the optimum model, inasmuch as one is possible, for both the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means it is not being looked at but it could be looked at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will leave it for another day.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (10 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new posts for planning authorities sanctioned in Budget 2025; to confirm that these are entirely separate from any additional sanction provided in 2024; and to provide details of both, in terms of number sanctioned, numbers recruited to date, and funding provided in each round of sanction. [40736/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak about the amendments. When Deputy Matthews was not present earlier, a number of us highlighted the very positive role he played in the stewardship of this Bill on Committee Stage, when I believe we did very good work. I absolutely support him in welcoming the amendment to the definition of "transport". However, there is a difficulty. Amendments in this group refer to section...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not sure how this is a point of order.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2: In subsection (3), after “subsection (4)”, to insert “and subsection (6)”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2 to Seanad amendment No. 2: After subsection (3), to insert the following: “(4) Except in the case of Part 24, and any provision where it is otherwise expressly indicated that the provision comes into effect on enactment, the Minister, at least 6 weeks prior to the Minister commencing any provision of this Act under subsection (3), shall— (a) lay...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Act shall be commenced prior to— (a) the laying before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report by the Minister explaining how compliance with the Aarhus Convention has been assured in the entirety of the Act, and (b) the passing of a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least one hour. (4) A...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 7 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least six hours. (4) A...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will deal directly with the Minister's response to my queries, specifically in respect of amendment No. 2, but it is important to correct the record of the Dáil on the Minister's timeline. He gave the impression some of us on this side of the House said the legislation had been rushed. In fact, in my remarks I made it very clear Committee Stage was done entirely appropriately...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order, to be helpful, when speaking on the Government amendments, the Minister might address our amendments to the amendments. That will allow us to get through the work a bit more quickly.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have submitted a number of amendments to Seanad amendment No. 2. We have three hours to go through 175 pages of amendments. Some of the amendments are relatively straightforward and technical in nature but many of them are not. Many substantively change key aspects of the legislation. Late last night, we received another eight pages of substitute amendments, one of which is the second...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. We are a very reasonable bunch of people on this side of the House.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is one of the sections of the Bill I was referring to yesterday when I said it would have been preferable if this had gone through the ordinary legislative process. If I may, I will take a second to highlight the particular concern. Why have cost rental landlords like the LDA asked for this provision? It is something they have been very open about in their conversations with many of...