Results 6,121-6,140 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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.

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: Can I ask Mr. Spain this then? The bit where, I think, we all agree is that issue of certainty in all of the areas. On the one hand, we want certainty but if we then have annual reviews because the development process for large-scale residential developments is five years plus - if we are saying on the one hand we want longer plans and more concrete 3D plans but we are saying we want...

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 was not suggesting the courts are unhelpful in any of these matters. That would be further than we should go in any of these hearings. Mr. Spain used the word "unhelpful" in respect of court decisions.

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 our guests for their detailed engagement, which is helpful for us in getting our heads around the provisions of the draft Bill. I have a couple of comments and will then put a general question about the draft Bill to all of the groups. I will also ask a specific question of WEI. It is important to put additional information on the record in respect, for example, of planning...

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 am not being in any way adversarial but I am looking for changes to the Bill rather than general principles. Perhaps Mr. Spain has some in mind.

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 should be an application of public law-----

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: Is there a way the legislation could make a distinction, not between the real case categories but certain types of error or procedures and certain matters of law? The question in my head is that third category. Ms Conaghan makes a compelling case for the first two. The third relates to a dispute, for example, on whether a mandatory ministerial guideline is legally superior to a strategic...

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: Yet we have to do so, including in the area of wind.

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 would appreciate that. I thank Ms Conaghan.

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Labour Party for introducing this motion and giving us the opportunity to have this important debate. While there might be some minor differences on the details of the policy proposals, we are more than happy to support the motion. I do not know where to start. At an earlier stage in this Dáil, I was one of many on the Opposition benches who would have given the Minister of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and comments. There is much I agree with, particularly on the under-resourcing of both organisations, not just historically but contemporaneously and the need for significant increases in resourcing to manage the new plan-led approach of this legislation and the other tasks they have been given, particularly maritime area planning. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Mr. Cussen is well accustomed from his previous role, to the constraints between what is required and what is available. Does he think there is a need for independent assessments and publication of estimates of the staffing levels that are required to meet these kinds of functions? Is that something that his body could or should do? There is a political process and a budgetary process, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be nothing stopping the Office of the Planning Regulator, given its independent role, from publishing such independent reviews on resourcing, irrespective of whether the Government asks it to do that or not. That could be an important function for the regulator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just do not ask Mr. Cussen to do it.