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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: Unfortunately, my short experience in this House is that these kinds of technical Bills do not change an awful lot between now and their final passage. I hope I will proved wrong on this occasion.

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: It is never the Department that is the problem, Chair, but we will deal with that another day. I agree with Ms Buckley's point on timelines. I am a strong advocate of timelines but they have to make sense and be appropriate to the decision that is made. They also have to be properly resourced. I appreciate that An Bord Pleanála is engaging with the Department, but ultimately it is...

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: Flattery will get you nowhere.

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 apologise for cutting across Ms Buckley but I am more interested in any data she may have of that earlier period when the board was adequately resourced-----

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: -----because that gives us a better picture of what we want to move towards.

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 are also a very small number of decisions which are due now for almost five years. They are very complex cases----

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 wish to say again that I fully support many of the proposals Ms Buckley has made in respect of alternative mechanisms to ensure compliance and will fully support-----

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: -----many of those. Yes. I agree absolutely.

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: Since that framework was originally approved, all sorts of things have changed, which includes climate action plans, legally binding emissions reduction targets, changes to EU law, the Aarhus Convention, not to mention the complexity of planning and building control, etc. How reasonable is it, given the increasing level of complexity of planning and environmental decision-making, to go back...

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 can pick up on that, if I may, in the next round.

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 will pick up on Ms Buckley's point because there is something worse than a bad "No" and that is a bad "Yes". That leads to all sorts of problems. I have very rarely, if ever, heard a member of the public wanting this process to be fast-tracked. The only people who have ever talked about speeding the process up are some politicians and some lobbyists. What most people want, including...

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: Will Mr. Cussen not dodge my political question?

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: Maybe if more Oireachtas Members knew the detail of that, the Office of the Planning Regulator would get less of a hard time.

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: That also was not approved by the Oireachtas.

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: Although that is a practice, it is not required from a legislative point of view.

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: Setting laws and political interference are two separate things, but I take the point.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he would support the large energy users who wrongly benefitted from the rebalancing subvention repaying that overpayment to households. [6157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way the large energy user rebalancing subvention was compliant with EU state aid rules. [6081/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Asset Management Agency (8 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance the nature of NAMA's 20% interest in the Poolbeg SDZ development; and if he will describe the nature of the interest, that is, equity, equity with development cost liabilities, or other. [5954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide guidance for residents of a development in an area (details supplied) with regard to applications for enrolment to schools where the development does not fall into any catchment area for enrolment purposes, and as a result, children are refused admission to schools on that basis. [6044/23]