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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am genuinely open to this question. Given the highly and increasingly technical nature of planning law, both development plans and State-wide plans, the increasing technical complexity of EU environmental law, the proliferation of legal judgments both at a European Court of Justice level and a domestic level, that is a lot information. There is now climate law. There are carbon budgets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of that conversation, of the new timeline requirements, whatever they may be, that come with this, and in the background we have just opened up a planning regime for our marine, which is seven times the size of our land mass, in an area that is even more technical and of which we have very limited experience as legal practitioners, planners, planning authorities or judges, how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And planners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a question we asked them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not just about more judges but a pipeline of judges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Regarding Mr. Flynn's point and the idea that, at various levels of courts, there could be some level of specialism or subdivision or list, a little bit like county councillors, Deputies and Ministers, does that give you a potential pipeline if people are already specialising at a Circuit Court level, albeit in a more limited scope? How would you conceive of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: To add to the Chair's point, before responding to the question, it is not just the transitional mechanisms we have not seen yet. There are other areas. For example, the Department is considering whether or not to add into this Bill the land value sharing tax, urban development zones, other areas of planning-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly, as well as the legal aid regime, as I call it. It is not even that there are aspects of this Bill as we have it that are not certain. There are also significant other aspects. One could be looking at another 50 to 100 pages of the Bill and how they interact with the bits we have dealt with. There are multiple layers of uncertainty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the central areas of litigation has been with regard to conflicts between the section 28 ministerial guidelines and development plans. Sections 22 and 23 of the draft Bill, particularly section 22, set out their intention in this regard. When we interrogated the Department, it emerged that the process by which an existing section 28 guideline may become a national planning policy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We might need six hours for that meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the output target for 2023, and subsequent years respectively, in terms of the number of social housing units to be delivered associated with subhead A.33 Social Housing PPP programme, which has been allocated €30 million in the REV23. [10433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government of the €1.9 billion capital provision for housing for 2023 that is not voted Exchequer funding, how much is to come from each of LDA investment and HFA lending, respectively. [10434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through LDA investment in 2023; and the estimated amount of expenditure it has allocated to deliver same. [10435/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of voted current funding that has been allocated for 2023, and estimated for subsequent years respectively, for payment and availability arrangements associated with the output targets of subhead A.11. [10450/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 18 October 2022, if she will provide an update on the installation of the Internet at a school (details supplied); if funding and resources have been provided by her Department to ensure Internet is accessible to the entire school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 18 October 2022, if she will provide an update on the status of a project for a school (details supplied); and the timeframe for the commencement and completion of this long awaited school build. [10285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding from her Department's grants is due to be provided to a school (details supplied); and, if so, when it can be expected. [10286/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their assessment of need carried out. [10327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will publish an alcohol non-compliance list in accordance with section 31 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. [10407/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (1 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances of alleged breaches of section 14 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 that have been brought to the HSE’s attention; and the number of cases that have been investigated. [10408/23]