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Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 637. To ask the Minister for Health who is liable for the cost of taxis to hospital appointments for residents in long-term nursing home care in receipt of medical cards. [11307/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their submissions. I will direct my questions to Mr. Mandal in the first round and to Ms Foster and Mr. Heneghan in the second round to ensure there is adequate time to respond. I am conscious that Mr. Mandal represents the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance and also has enormous experience working through the planning system under two different sets of laws...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I thank everyone for their contributions today. I will make a couple of comments and then ask a general question to everyone. Much of our discussion is centred around urban residential development but actually the issues at hand are as pertinent to all kinds of development. We have had folks in on precisely those environmental issues like hedgerows and biodiversity but we have also...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm he will not take any actions that would amend the benefits of members of a pension scheme (details supplied). [10610/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that a group (details supplied) has requested information from an organisation; and if he will ensure the information is provided to the group. [10611/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to extend the planning permission requirement for short-term letting to areas outside rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10778/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and thank our guests for their detailed submissions. I will use my first slot to discuss matters with the Law Society and my second for Mr. Flynn. This is the seventh meeting we have done on this complex draft Bill. The last four, including the material in our present guests' submissions, have raised substantial concerns regrading the draft Bill. Other members will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will move on because our time is limited, but we will have subsequent rounds. The issue of costs was raised on Tuesday by the Irish Environmental Network and some of its members. Is it Ms Minch's view we would be better to leave the cost protection and recovery regime post the Heather Hill judgment alone for a while in order to let that settle and see where it goes, rather than reopening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the benefit of those of us who would not be as au faitwith the operations of the court as our guests, the consequence of that would be significant delays in a large number of planning applications across a wide range areas, for example. That would be the import of another couple of years of litigation around costs. It would mean that if there were a series of judicial reviews, whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am keen to come back to the parts of the society's submission that do not relate to judicial review, so I will ask my final question on the latter issue. We have had a number of different discussions, all very interesting, around the proposition to allow for changes of the decision based on errors or fact or law. I ask Ms Minch to explain, in plain English for those of us who are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could also be a possible cause of delay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Minch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Departmental officials might benefit from it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The leapfrog provision was an amendment introduced on Report Stage to that Bill but not pertaining to that Bill. It was one of those late stage amendments-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----that we do not get to scrutinise when they are introduced late.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: When we particularly asked the representatives of the Department that question at the start, they said it was for reasons of cost liability or claims of cost under the new cost regime, but how and ever. I will indicate at this point that I want to come in on the third round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am delighted Mr. Flynn mentioned enforcement because it is one of the areas where we have not had adequate discussion of the Bill in the seven meetings we have had to date. It seems to me there is very little new in the enforcement section and a lot of it is just transposition of existing elements of the original Act. I have two questions on that. In terms of our enforcement regime, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a sense that this section of the proposed Bill adopts what is almost a shared-service model, where there is a pooling of existing resources?