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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to say, I am not so worried about that. I think a ten-year plan is fine if it has a strong review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not, however, according to the courts in most cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come back in the next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will pick up where we left off. In some sense, our guests are asking for a significant change to the draft Bill, in respect of sections 22 and 23, and others. Expedited amendments to the development plans and regional plans would do the opposite because a certain Minister, with the approval of the Government, could introduce a new policy statement which would be followed by a very quick...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I absolutely appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: He is not precious. Do not worry. Mr. Kelly said at the outset that he was going to do a more detailed submission to the Department. Like the regional assemblies, it would be great if that could be shared with our committee. We are trying to grapple with all of the same challenges that everybody else is. I want to move on to Part 7 of the Bill, which is one part we have not spoken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. I return to the issue of resources. I know it was addressed earlier. The resource management plan that the witnesses submitted to the Department in quarter 2 last year included a request for 500 staff. That is kind of to do with what they are required to do as of last year. If and when this Bill passes and is enacted, it will bring about a very significant potential expansion in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: An Bord Pleanála made quite a compelling case to us that there should be different timelines for different types of planning applications, which makes eminent sense. The Bill does not introduce the possibility of lengthening some of the timelines, for example for large-scale residential development, LSRD. However, one would have thought a very large LSRD should require more than 14...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Kelly for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Many of the conflicts we have had in the planning system in recent years have been between city and county development plans and special planning policy requirements or other ministerial guidelines. Given that the national planning policy statements, as defined in the Bill, are so broad, is there not an argument to say that if a Minister is to have the power to fundamentally alter the rules...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect if the planning officials in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage had their way, the rural planning guidelines would have been published two years ago when they were first drafted. They have remained sitting on the desks of successive Ministers and Ministers of State. The real problem is that nobody wants to touch the hot potato. I fully support everybody who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the CCMA have a view? I presume managers would prefer to have flexibility in whether they use that derogation over the short periods in place. I say that not being a fan of the derogation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a very diplomatic "Yes". Do the elected members have any views on other areas where we could try to insert some formal role for them in this legislation?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of applications for the rent tax credit for 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will provide a breakdown of the claims, by county; the average amount claimed, per county; and when the first credits will be paid. [8756/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the building control section of his Department was consulted on the exempted development planning regulations related to the provision of temporary accommodation for people seeking international protection and people in receipt of temporary protection orders. [8125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an itemised breakdown of his Department’s voted capital and current expenditure for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will itemise the actual expenditure for each of these programmes for 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [8276/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital expenditure on the following housing programmes for 2022: all Departmental capital funding for programmes for local authorities and approved housing bodies to deliver social and affordable homes, per delivery stream and with totals; the total volume of AHB borrowing for the delivery of social and affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the claim by an organisation (details supplied) that the 2022 CSO new home completion data is incorrect and that rather than 2,9851 completions being recorded in 2022, the figure was just 23,751; and if he will provide the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage with a detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable cost rental homes delivered by AHBs and the LDA in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of units in each scheme; and the average rent being charged. [8758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes delivered via the affordable housing fund in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of homes per scheme; and the average cost of the home with and without the AHF discount. [8759/23]