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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could the Minister of State explain that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Staggering which bits of commencement notices over what period? I am asking out of interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Report on the establishment of a Land Price Register 8. The Minister shall, not later than 6 months after the passing of this Act, commission and publish a report on the establishment of a Land Price Register to be operated by Tailte Éireann which would— (a) expand the register...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am going to take amendments Nos. 2, 3 and 4 in order, if that is acceptable.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it easier if I just speak to the other two amendments quickly and the Minister of State can then respond to all of them together?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On amendment No. 4, the key issue, which relates to amendment No. 3, is that we have a valuable real-time register of residential property transactions. It is a valuable tool for everybody, including purchasers, analysts, policymakers and, I am sure, the Government. The problem is that we do not have something similar for land transactions. The market in land is probably one of the most...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope the Minister of State will depart a little from his script in his response to my second question, though I appreciate that he must give us the official position. There are two elements to my next query. First, he knows we use the report mechanism because we cannot table amendments because they would place a charge on the State. I hope he understands this aspect. What I am really...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good as well if the Minister of State could ask the Minister to correspond with the committee regarding taking on board the spirit of these two amendments and to let the committee know if this initiative is something the Minister would be willing to look at. I ask this because it would be enormously valuable. As will become clear when I speak to my next amendment, there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(8) Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report of a review into the digitization of the land registry including proposed reforms to expedite land disputes where the title deeds are currently unclear due to issues with historic or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not underestimate the scale of the work. To be clear, in the first instance, what the amendments are asking, and what I am asking the Minister of State to informally raise within the Department, is a review of the digitisation process. In the village in which I live, Clondalkin, there are large parts of the area where there are no title deeds at all and, for example, nobody owns the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(8) Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister, shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report setting out further consideration by his or her Department and the Department of Justice on the transfer of responsibility for the Property Services Regulatory Authority to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fairness to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, he thanked this committee for its efforts in producing our pre-legislative scrutiny report, even though the Government did not accept either of our two eminently sensible recommendations.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(8) Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the creation of a real-time land transaction register similar to the Residential Property Price Register.”.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the French proposal to tax private jets at the informal meeting of transport ministers in Prague on 20-21 October 2022. [50395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce a green certificate for homes where there is evidence of Pyrite but not yet of physical damage, and where the home is not currently eligible for redress under the Pyrite Resolution Board. [50465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that PhD students who are not funded by SFI and IRC have been excluded from receiving the bonus payment announced in Budget 2023; if this will be reconsidered and amended to include all PhD students given the current cost-of-living situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50662/22]