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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 have three last questions. The first relates to Part 9 of the Bill. The big concern many of us have with administrative schemes is that when we look at the administrative schemes that exist already, whether it is legal aid or particularly the difficulties that children and women who are experiencing domestic violence face, an administrative scheme can often be very slow. You have to...

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: Just so we are clear, that means they are ready for the Minister to do with whatever he decides, when he decides to do 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: Is the delay in the rural ones just a courtesy because there is a new Minister of State responsible for that? Every time I put in a parliamentary question, it is a new quarter they are due to be published. I know that is not Mr. Hogan's responsibility, but-----

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: And on the Part 8 derogation?

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 concern is, and I will just put it on the record, as Mr. Hogan may not be in a position to reply, that is not what we were told on the floor of the Dáil by the Minister, and I do not believe that is what the legislation actually says. I do not recall anywhere in that very short piece of text a compulsion that all Part 8s were required. If I am wrong, please do correct me, because 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: That section of the Bill sets out the grounds upon which it can be used, and therefore it has to be consistent with the development plan etc. I do not recall, and please correct me either now or in a note to the committee, anywhere in the text of that amendment that it was a requirement for managers to use. I am not arguing for or against it being used. I am completely unconvinced that 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: There is still a significant amount of uncertainty within local authorities. There may be a case, and this is important, where a manager takes the view that a public consultation could assist the passage and the long-term success of the development, and therefore I would urge a level of, or a space for, flexibility. As Mr. Hogan will know from his time as a local planner, there are...

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: The Minister did say that. I am sorry to labour this point, Chair, but I think you share an interest. The Minister gave a commitment when we pressed him on this that some kind of written guidance would be given to the local authority setting that out and that, in that, the requirement to involve particularly the elected members at some point, even when the derogation was being used, was 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: That has not gone to the local authorities yet, am I correct?

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: If something is in the Part 8 process already but has not actually gone to Part 8, for example, schemes where there has been informal constitutional in the area committee or municipal district, would it proceed as a Part 8 in the guidance note or would it be subsumed into the derogation?

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: Even if the commencement is not the actual-----

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: Even the publication of the Part 8, if they have started that informal, pre-Part 8 engagement with the elected members.

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: Perfect. That would be helpful for all of us.

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: A briefing, when available, on any new provisions or the transition of provisions would be good.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We cannot handle rising homelessness.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: More votes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us have the figures.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach could answer the question.