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Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the homelessness crisis? The Minister has not said anything about the homelessness crisis or the ban on evictions.

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is evasion. The Minister is avoiding the issue at hand. It is classic.

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely not true. It is simply not true.

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is now provoking me.

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Government has lost control of the homelessness crisis as levels of homelessness continue to rise despite the winter ban on evictions; — the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O'Brien TD, and his Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael colleagues in Government, including the Minister for Finance,...

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 the witnesses for the opening statements. I share many of the views and support many of the issues raised in the opening statements. The debate that took place after them about the OPR and who is responsible for the centralisation of the planning system is important, but it misses the point in a sense because, whether or not one likes the individual communications from the OPR,...

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]