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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Decisions for a significant number of units are still delayed but rather than 70,000 units, Dr. Logue believes the number is more like 40,000 between those delayed and those likely to come out the other side of judicial reviews.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To stick with some of the Part 9 changes in the context of judicial review, when we were teasing out some of this stuff with both the Irish Planning Institute and Wind Energy Ireland at a previous meeting, the Irish Planning Institute was kind of indicating that if such a provision, that is, correcting the decisions on the basis of errors of fact or law, were to remain, there should be an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of ten-year development plans and these new three categories of sub-plans within development plans, and given the very limited resources we have in our planning authorities and in the board, to what extent does Dr. Logue think we could we be opening ourselves up to not doing this in the right way, given all of those constraints? I would be interested in Ms Sheridan's view on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to continue this conversation. We will get to Part 9 of the Bill in the next hour. Part 3, and chapter 3, in particular, and how it relates to some of the expedited procedures is very important. For many of us, especially those of us who dealt with the legislation on SHDs and had to deal with the outworking of the mandatory ministerial guidelines on building heights and design...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of the other organisations that presented to us have informed us that they are making subsequent submissions to the Department. First of all, can the panel let me know if their organisations are doing that and if they would be in a position to share those submissions with the committee during the course of the pre-legislative scrutiny?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair. I will come in on the next round, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everybody for the presentations. At the end of our last session with the Irish Planning Institute and the town planners of Ireland, we heard some strong testimony on their organisations’ views of what they saw was the lack of engagement and consultation during the planning forum. I ask both organisations to what extent they found that process satisfactory and to what extent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to extending the HAP scheme to the sponsor prior to the arrival of the family in relation to cases of family reunification; if so, if there is an outcome regarding the consideration; and, if not, if this is something his Department will consider. [9499/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of new build SHIP construction social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [9753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department chose not to follow the NPWS recommendation (details supplied) to prosecute the Office of Public Works under Regulations 51(2)(b) and 51 (2)(d) and 65 of the Birds and Habitats Regulation 2011 in his November 2020 Case Report for the Wilful disturbance to bats, and their breed and resting places, at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority social housing capital funding applications funded through the SHIP programme in 2021 and 2022, that have been approved within the 59-week timeframe. [9824/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing body capital funding applications funded through the capital assistance scheme that have been approved within the 75-week target since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9825/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the €70 million Housing Agency revolving fund; what has been agreed as terms of reference in terms of the review of this revolving fund; and the timeline for the review to be completed. [9826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the review of CALF funding scheme for approved housing bodies, as promised in Housing for All, to be concluded by the 3rd quarter 2022; if he is aware of any impact of this delay on the progress of existing CALF applications; the engagement there has been with officials in the Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the 2009 special dividend from ESB worth €176 million, following windfall profit due to the sale of generating plan to a company (details supplied), was allocated to different large energy users; if all LEUs benefitted equally; if some LEUs benefitted more than others; and if he will outline the value of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reconsider the teacher allocation to a school (details supplied) for the 2023-2024 academic year, given the school has a projected figure of 518 students and will be just one student short for a further teacher allocation and given the demand for school places in the area is particularly high. [9416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 274. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation for the decision to change the paediatric and outpatient care centre service situated at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, from walk-in to appointment only; if clinical evidence was consulted and considered in the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9407/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. We will probably get two or three rounds of questions so I will come in when appropriate. I will start with the IPI. I thank Mr. Lawlor for both his submission and the more detailed documents. I want to emphasise one line where he said: "It is disappointing that as planning practitioners we have had limited input." That is our sense of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume the transitional arrangements, particularly in respect of what they do with the special planning policy requirements under them, will make that even more complicated over that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that undergraduates and postgraduates?