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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...State and its institutions end up in conflict with the individuals who want to live in Gaeltacht areas. We could use those funds in really innovative ways. One area that will require some consideration is land. Consider a rural countryside area, and particularly one that is under pressure from an urban settlement, and the fact the individuals and their families who want to live there...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...planning system to do this or not. It is an issue particularly in Gaeltachtaí but also in Líonraí. As a State, we either say we want to ensure within those geographical areas with a designated land area on which planning and development take place that every single planning and development decision has to include an assessment of its impact on the language and use of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...with planning permission that were subsequently found to be unlawful. I am concerned about amendment No. 790 insofar as it relates to removing the phrase "in relation to retention permission" on land, a maritime site, etc. I ask the Minister of State to have his officials talk him through those amendments and explain the rationale for them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 790 proposes to delete the line "in relation to any permission for the retention on land or a maritime site of any structure" and replace it with the words “in relation to retention permission for any unauthorised structure”. That seems to be a significant change.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is the reason I am asking. I will explain afterwards. My understanding is that a sentence would be deleted by this amendment, which is "in relation to any permission for the retention on land or a maritime site of any structure"

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to. Perhaps the officials could explain to the Minister of State to explain to me what it is then we are excluding. The words being changed are "in relation to any permission for the retention on land or a maritime site of any structure". To what is this wording now being disapplied?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what subvention is available to the Land Development Agency to help it ensure that its rents are at least 25% below market rent; the number of applications received by the LDA for any such subvention; and the amount committed to date for this subvention. [5260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...To ask the Minister for Finance the tax treatment of rental income from local authority and approved housing body social tenancies and rental income from local authority, approved housing body and Land Development Agency rental tenancies. [4840/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This month the Land Development Agency announced its latest cost-rental homes. These include one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments in Citywest here in Dublin. The rents range from almost €1,400 a month for a one-bedroom apartment to €1,800 a month for a three-bedroom one. Under the rules of the cost-rental scheme, prospective tenants would need a gross income...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Perfect. I have a couple of other quick questions. Turning to the LDA and land costs, it was mentioned earlier that in projects, and obviously this is particular in respect of Project Tosaigh, if the unit price of land goes up to about €75,000, the LDA will be out of business in terms of that scheme. I presume that is before the STAR investment initiative comes, or is this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I refer to what this means for the prospect of there being any inner urban Dublin cost-rental projects. Again, if we were to look at SCSI reports, for example, they posit a unit price for land of about €69,000, including inner urban, suburban and commuter belt areas. Generally, speaking, inside the canals, then, and I know land prices are a tricky thing to quantify, we would not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. Again, I know of Clonburris and Citywest, and the unit prices for land there are very competitive. I accept this. It does mean, however, that what Mr. Coleman is kind of saying is that there is unlikely to be a large volume of cost-rental units constructed within the urban core of Dublin, say, just given where land prices are now inside the canals.

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...are not affordable. In my constituency, there are affordable purchase homes under the Government's affordable purchase scheme with an all-in price to the buyer of €437,000. Only last week, the Land Development Agency announced new homes for Citywest, which is now in my constituency. The starter prices are: €1,400 a month for a one-bedroom home; €1,600 for a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (17 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 778. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the details of the Cabinet agreement of 20 December 2023 on the recapitalisation of the Land Development Agency, including the total proposed increase in their capitalisation and a breakdown of the sources of funding for the additional capitalisation agreed, including ISIF, share sales (details supplied),...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...slightly different. People often think a local authority is a single entity but, of course, it is not. It is different departments, many with different functions. Invariably, whether it is the land management development or planning function of the local authority, the individuals responsible for the register sit on one side of the building and on the other side there are the director...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (12 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the additional capitalisation for the Land Development Agency, including whether the funding will be provided via ISIF, HFA, Exchequer revenue or a combination of these and other sources; how much additional capitalisation is expected; and when a decision will be made on this matter. [55318/23]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would be more than happy to do so. Likewise, I hear people raise legitimate concerns about the lack of clarity for local authorities with respect to wind farms on land. That is not this Department. It is the Department of communications in conjunction with this Department. They have long delayed the release of much anticipated guidelines about wind farms. Sometimes, people find other...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...be a really big millstone around any family's neck. It would be much more appropriate to be honest about that. It is likewise with cost rentals, with rent prices pushing up and up. One of the reasons the Land Development Agency will not borrow any money under its current mandate and is seeking additional ISIF and Exchequer funding is that if it starts to borrow, its cost rents will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...three crucial schemes, which are the affordable housing fund for affordable purchase, the cost rental equity loan for cost rental through approved housing bodies and Project Tosaigh through the Land Development Agency?