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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?

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: This was published after-----

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: Density guidelines would help.

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: Before I come back to my primary questions, on that point, in the case of a significant wind farm the planning authority has to do a substantial amount of work for a development that may or may not be able to proceed. Is there not a case in such an instance for the planning process to be paused to allow the courts to resolve issues of land ownership?

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: This is helpful. I want to go back to two questions that I asked earlier. I will give Mr. Lawlor an opportunity to put on the record in more detail the concerns he outlined initially about Parts 2, 9 and 11 with regard to development management and judicial review. I also have a question for Mr. Jones with respect to the shift from voluntary ministerial guidelines to what I prefer to call...

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 same could potentially apply to local authorities with regard to large-scale residential developments.

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 mean with regard to the initial timeline.

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: In the pre-application phase.

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 will give a specific case. Let us take two large-scale residential developments, one for 100 units and one for 600 units. Mr. Lawlor is correct that there is a clear statutory requirement for a preplanning process for both. Is it reasonable to expect a planning authority to make a decision on a 600-unit development and a 100-unit development in the same time?

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: Will Mr. Jones address the ministerial policy statements?

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: Are they ever quick in the Custom House?

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: For the non-planners in the room, will Mr. Jones explain in plain English the difference between allowing policy statements on forward planning matters but not on development management because that is an important distinction to make? The second issue is that the Department told us it is still writing the transitional arrangements that are to deal with those. Both the witnesses have...

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: The transitional arrangements are not in the Bill. They are still being drafted. I thought the IPI would be intimately involved in conversations on those, given how central they will be to the early implementation of this Bill.

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 not concerning? Part of what the Bill is meant to do is to fix a number of points of conflict that have arisen in our planning system in recent years. The ministerial policy statements and various provisions for subsequent amendment to existing plans are an attempt to fix stuff that was not right previously. We have transitional arrangements and do not know if planning...

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 do not want to stop Mr. Lawlor's flow but the Department would tell us that there has been significant engagement with the planning advisory forum and so on. I have no doubt that much time was spent on that but many sectors have come into us, including local government, with the IPI now saying something similar, to say that engagement was of limited value in understanding the logic behind...