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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the discretion of the Chair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us learn some lessons from terrestrial planning. A local authority grants planning permission and there is an obligation on the person who has been granted that permission to build according to the plan. For example, if a local authority provides a licence for quarrying, there is an obligation on the person to quarry in accordance with the licence. The first issue is whether the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, another committee dealt with the issue of short-term letting. Some years ago, we dealt with new planning regulations on change of use. It was very straightforward and the rules are very clear. A short-term let for a specific period of time in a particular type of building requires a change of use planning application on certain occasions. The problem was that the enforcement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, if Mr. Cronin has some thoughts on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not even making the case for a single authority or agency because I understand it is not that straightforward. What I am making the case for, particularly at the early stages when there are multiple agencies or authorities, is having one place where anybody can go to be told what is appropriate. The Chair's point is a good one. There may be a single point of contact in a geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on unsold affordable homes; the number of homes currently occupied by social housing tenants; and if tenants can purchase the homes as per their contracts. [3587/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the validity of current NCT certificates, given the delays in accessing tests in a timely manner. [2827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with NAMA and or the Minister for Housing regarding NAMA's commercial interest in the land at the Poolbeg SDZ, and whether this interest could be transferred to Dublin City Council to ensure the delivery of genuinely affordable homes at that location as per the SDZ agreement. [3037/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that the Public Appointments Service was used in the appointment of members to the interim Land Development Agency board in 2019 and the full LDA board in 2021; and, if not, if he will outline the process that was used to generate the list of names from which Ministers selected the members of the interim...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings he had with Dublin City Council and with organisations (details supplied) in 2022 regarding the delivery of affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3036/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of the rural planning guidelines; and the reason for the ongoing delay in the publication of same. [3039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of the housing density guidelines currently being developed by his Department. [3040/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that houses as well as apartments and duplexes will be included in the forthcoming building defects redress scheme where the owners of such houses can demonstrate there are structural building defects similar to those in apartments and duplexes. [3043/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the implementation plan for the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People will be published. [3236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if counties Clare and Limerick have been formally accepted into the defective concrete block remediation scheme; and the other counties that have formally applied to his Department to be included in the scheme. [3308/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with an organisation (details supplied) in its efforts to secure capital funding from Pobal for the development of a purpose-built centre on land due to be transferred to the centre by South Dublin County Council in St. Cuthbert’s Park....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the process by which a child and family centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22 can apply for Pobal funding for the provision of a new child and family centre. [2762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the European Commission has confirmed that the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme is in line with EU state aid rules; and, if not, if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with the Commission. [2539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications revised, the number of applications approved and the number of contracts signed under the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme; and the number of units in each application and in each category, broken down by local authority area. [2540/23]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, I am not on campus so I am not entitled to ask questions.