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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a process through which children who require devices to assist with their education, and have had devices in their possession for a number of years, can apply to have the devices updated; and if so, if she will outline the process. [7326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the funding drawn down for each programme by postcode; for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [7394/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 535. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 295 and 296 of 30 June 2022, if he will provide an update on the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019; if a timeframe for enactment can be indicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 will address the packaging and advertisement of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products. [6475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 853. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department intends to undertake a review of children’s disability services following the introduction of the new CDNT system, given the reported experiences of children who cannot access required services; and if not, if a review will be considered. [7325/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 872. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the funding drawn down for each programme by postcode; for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.. [7395/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not think we have had as large a number of people before our committee before. There are more witnesses than there are full members of the committee. It may be a case of safety in numbers, but we will see how we get on. First, there is much in all the opening statements that I agree with. All of us in this committee want to see more homes built and more offshore wind energy. With...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is okay. Just to let Mr. O’Connell know, there have been 32 and over 23 of those are from residential developers. It might be something worth looking at and exploring to see. In terms of the rise of those judicial reviews, Mr. O’Connell will remember that there was a period when one would almost never have got a judicial review of a large-scale residential development....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The last question is with respect to Part 9 of the Bill, which relates to the reforms of judicial reviews. From Mr. O’Connell’s reading of it, does he think that will lead to a reduction in judicial reviews? Is that a section of the Bill he welcomes? What is his read of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. O’Connell for that. Dr. Duffy will remember that we first met in one of these rooms, probably back in 2018 or 2019, when there was a previous attempt to reform our planning system. We were told at the time - including by his own organisation - that the changes they were advocating for should speed up large-scale residential developments and planning applications....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I refer to the significant increase in the number of judicial reviews in the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, and to the judicial reviews that were upheld by the courts. We cannot comment on any of those decisions. What went wrong in the architecture and legislation that the Oireachtas passed prior to that period? Are there learnings we would benefit from in order to ensure that we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask the question in another way. The vast majority of those judicial reviews were about substantive conflicts between central Government planning policy and ministerial regulations and development plans. They were planning matters, although they were challenged in the context of legal aspects. Given that, does PII see the proposed Bill rectifying those issues or does it see them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has that lack of alignment been the nub of the problem in terms of rising numbers of lost judicial reviews? Is that they key issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Spain is not suggesting the courts are unhelpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It needs houses to supply the wind to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of Mr. Farrell's members needs ten grand from a delayed planning permission. That is for sure. Mr. O'Connell's statement refers to "over 70,000 units waiting for a decision from An Bord Pleanála." Does he have a breakdown of the figure in terms of applications within the time limit awaiting decisions, applications that are late, applications that are not applications but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My next question is for Mr. Spain, with his planner's hat on. I want to get into the meat of the Bill. I am interested in the question that he raised at the end of his last answer about how the overall rules of the system are live and development plans, strategic development zones and other plans keep pace. Section 22 of the Bill concerns the planning statements, which are going to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me give a real-case scenario though not an actual case. Let us say we have a large strategic development zone for many thousands of homes but there is a new government which puts in place a national planning policy statement. That then requires, if it is in the transitional arrangements as the Department says it will be, retrospective amendment of the SDZ. If the local authority in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And a material contravention that was rejected by the board.