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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For me, it is not the principle; it is the mechanism and the process. I fully support the idea of national policy guidelines. I also believe in regional and local guidelines. When the County and City Managers Association and some of its members came before us, their concern related to the process of transposition and how that works. This is because what we have seen with some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ye we are also dictating to people on the residential side about size, the number of rooms, etc. That is why the distinction between development management and forward planning is really useful because we should have very clear rules. I accept that, but we should not be telling people - to continue the analogy - what colour or size car they should have; we should be telling them about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to address timelines and penalties. As the witnesses are aware, I am very strongly in favour of timelines, particularly in terms of development consents in local authorities and the board. This is a part of the Bill we really need to get right because if we get it right, it will be very helpful to applicants, local authorities, communities, etc. Can Mr. Hogan at least give us some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My interpretation of that comes from Mr. Hogan's initial presentation. We want to move to a plan-led system. We want a plan-led system that provides the maximum level of certainty and that means moving towards more SDZ-type plans in terms of the dimensionality and visibility of what can or cannot be done. I am not saying they are all SDZs. We are also going to enter a period where we hope...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It put it differently when we asked it a very straight question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not saying Mr. Hogan is wrong, but that is not what the city and county managers said to us. We asked very clearly that question and they said it was not representative of the increased workload they believe this Bill would involve.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know all that, but the premise of this Bill, in addition to clarifying, is to have a more planned-out approach. That means we need more plans, and if we need more plans we need more resources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is if we get those numbers, but that is a matter for the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two other brief questions. I apologise for cutting across Mr. Hogan. I am not being rude; it is just that we have little time. I think he is the only planning professional who has come before this committee for consideration of this Bill who has taken that view. I say that because it is important. Both the public and the private sectors have given us a different interpretation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two brief questions. Regarding exempted development and third-party requests for the old section 5 permissions, the witnesses will give us their explanation. It is a straight yes-no answer. At this point in time, despite the strength of opinion that has been presented to the committee, there is no suggestion that what is in the Bill will change. What the Department will do is just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I seek clarity on the land value sharing tax and urban development zones legislation. I was not 100% clear on Mr. Hogan's answer to Deputy O'Callaghan. Is the intention to work on that Bill as a separate Bill but then to bring it in as, say, Committee Stage or Report Stage amendments to this Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it there that the development contribution scheme will be or will it be in the final draft of this Bill when we get it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I assume that it will not be the same text as the current development contribution scheme. There might be some changes in respect of that relationship.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question. Development contributions and a land value sharing tax are not the same thing. One of the things that was said - it could have been by one of the industry representatives - was that they do not want double taxation. This is not double taxation. Development contributions and a land value sharing tax are two very different things. Is there anything the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is important because development contributions are contributions to the local authority in lieu of the impact of and infrastructure requirement of development. The land value sharing tax is about capturing a portion of the uplift in the market value of the land. They are not necessarily the same thing. Is it the witnesses' understanding that the Minister intends to seek or request...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the Department's notional timeline - not a date but a month or a quarter - for publishing the final version of this Bill? What is your hope as regards pre-legislative scrutiny of the other legislation, the bringing forward of this legislation and the integration of the two? We are almost at the Easter recess. Does the Department really hope that this will all be through both Houses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the witnesses' hope for the completion of this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are the witnesses optimistic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to go last.