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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I know all that, but the premise of this Bill, in addition to clarifying, is to have a more planned-out approach. That means we need more plans, and if we need more plans we need more resources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is if we get those numbers, but that is a matter for the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two other brief questions. I apologise for cutting across Mr. Hogan. I am not being rude; it is just that we have little time. I think he is the only planning professional who has come before this committee for consideration of this Bill who has taken that view. I say that because it is important. Both the public and the private sectors have given us a different interpretation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two brief questions. Regarding exempted development and third-party requests for the old section 5 permissions, the witnesses will give us their explanation. It is a straight yes-no answer. At this point in time, despite the strength of opinion that has been presented to the committee, there is no suggestion that what is in the Bill will change. What the Department will do is just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I seek clarity on the land value sharing tax and urban development zones legislation. I was not 100% clear on Mr. Hogan's answer to Deputy O'Callaghan. Is the intention to work on that Bill as a separate Bill but then to bring it in as, say, Committee Stage or Report Stage amendments to this Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it there that the development contribution scheme will be or will it be in the final draft of this Bill when we get it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I assume that it will not be the same text as the current development contribution scheme. There might be some changes in respect of that relationship.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question. Development contributions and a land value sharing tax are not the same thing. One of the things that was said - it could have been by one of the industry representatives - was that they do not want double taxation. This is not double taxation. Development contributions and a land value sharing tax are two very different things. Is there anything the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is important because development contributions are contributions to the local authority in lieu of the impact of and infrastructure requirement of development. The land value sharing tax is about capturing a portion of the uplift in the market value of the land. They are not necessarily the same thing. Is it the witnesses' understanding that the Minister intends to seek or request...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the Department's notional timeline - not a date but a month or a quarter - for publishing the final version of this Bill? What is your hope as regards pre-legislative scrutiny of the other legislation, the bringing forward of this legislation and the integration of the two? We are almost at the Easter recess. Does the Department really hope that this will all be through both Houses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the witnesses' hope for the completion of this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are the witnesses optimistic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to go last.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three last questions. The first relates to Part 9 of the Bill. The big concern many of us have with administrative schemes is that when we look at the administrative schemes that exist already, whether it is legal aid or particularly the difficulties that children and women who are experiencing domestic violence face, an administrative scheme can often be very slow. You have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are clear, that means they are ready for the Minister to do with whatever he decides, when he decides to do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the delay in the rural ones just a courtesy because there is a new Minister of State responsible for that? Every time I put in a parliamentary question, it is a new quarter they are due to be published. I know that is not Mr. Hogan's responsibility, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And on the Part 8 derogation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is, and I will just put it on the record, as Mr. Hogan may not be in a position to reply, that is not what we were told on the floor of the Dáil by the Minister, and I do not believe that is what the legislation actually says. I do not recall anywhere in that very short piece of text a compulsion that all Part 8s were required. If I am wrong, please do correct me, because it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That section of the Bill sets out the grounds upon which it can be used, and therefore it has to be consistent with the development plan etc. I do not recall, and please correct me either now or in a note to the committee, anywhere in the text of that amendment that it was a requirement for managers to use. I am not arguing for or against it being used. I am completely unconvinced that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is still a significant amount of uncertainty within local authorities. There may be a case, and this is important, where a manager takes the view that a public consultation could assist the passage and the long-term success of the development, and therefore I would urge a level of, or a space for, flexibility. As Mr. Hogan will know from his time as a local planner, there are...