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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is really helpful. While we are on this matter, I will ask a couple of follow-up questions. For those of us who cannot visualise 1,000 cu. m, do we have a sense of the size of that physically? That would be helpful. In the same way that conditions are attached in terms of setbacks, etc., for the animal housing, are there any conditions to be applied here? One of the things this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking only so I will be clear. Does the Department of agriculture check involve a physical inspection of the structure, as it is being constructed, by somebody who would know whether it was compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the issues concerns the size of the structure. Non-compliance with building controls is what could lead to the potential for unwanted leakage. We spent some hours here earlier talking about building defects, which, as the Minister of State knows from having been a member of the committee previously, was a big issue. How do we ensure that there are no building defects and that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: How do we make sure the structures are built in accordance with the building control regulations? I assume there are very specific building control regulations to ensure the safety of the storage so there will not be unnecessary spillage that could have environmental and public health complications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not building control checks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could I make a final suggestion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State knows, building control compliance is an obsession of mine. Given the size and scale of the facilities, and that the primary objective is to ensure greater compliance with environmental and public health requirements, would it not make sense, particularly in the early stages of rolling out the new exempted development category, for local authorities in areas where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make a final point. What we know from our experience of building defects in other categories is that the negative impact of defects is not necessarily visually evident at the point when the facility starts to operate. For example, water ingress could be relevant in the context of a facility that has a lot of semiliquid slurry. These things sometimes transpire only at a later stage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear then, nobody who has gone and built a slurry storage tank, for example, will be able to avail of the exemption retrospectively. It is only for brand new facilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It is just good to get that on record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are making the Minister of State blush, a Chathaoirligh.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the progress made towards transposing the provisions of the revised Energy Efficiency Directive by the 11 October 2025 deadline. [54920/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of domestic electricity and gas customers in arrears (details supplied); the average value of the arrears, using the information provided to his Department by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [55261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider and respond to concerns regarding an aspect of design for a new school building (details supplied). [55440/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the revised estimate subhead A3, local government housing, by Social Housing Investment Programme, land acquisition fund, development levy waiver and any other category for the 2025 allocation and the out turn in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [54742/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is the tenth budget I have had the opportunity to respond to as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing. In every single year, the Minister for housing presents a budget and tells us it will address and improve the housing situation across the State. In the 12 months that follow, house prices, rents and homelessness rise, and social and affordable housing targets that are too low to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the cost reductions to the developers be passed on to the LDA, yes or no?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The programme for Government had a clear commitment to progressively increase the renters' tax credit. Obviously, that promise was broken in yesterday's budget and as a consequence the vast majority if not all of the renters' tax credit will be swallowed up by rental increases based on the most recent data from Daft. Likewise, an increasing number of people who apply for cost rental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Average rents for new tenants increased by over €1,000 last year and for existing renters by almost €800. Despite the Government's renter's tax credit, the majority of renters will either be worse off or marginally better off. When we change the legislation, however, those rent increases are going to be even more dramatic for people who move tenancy or enter into a new...