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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a really incongruous section. It does not belong in this legislation at all. I do not accept, and have yet to hear a convincing argument, that it is in any way related to LRDs. My understanding is it is what is often called a leapfrog provision whereby on foot of a judicial review, where one party seeks appeal to the Court of Appeal, the other party can attempt to leapfrog the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As this is a significant legal change, it is important that we tease it out. Let us be clear that when this large-scale residential development process is in place, people will enter the pre-planning process and then the formal planning process and may then decide to appeal that to the board. There may then be judicial reviews. All of that will take the guts of nine to 12 months. There...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would be interested to hear the explanation of the Minister in respect of why this provision is now so important as to merit inclusion in the Bill but it was not contained in an earlier general scheme of the judicial review legislation. It has come out of nowhere, whereas we have a general sense of what the previous Government and the officials were working towards in terms of the judicial...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support the two amendments. I ask the Minister to clarify the following in his response. My understanding, having listened to his comments previous to the introduction of these amendments, was that this was part of the attempt to ensure that at least 50% of the residential development of houses and duplexes would be made available for owner-occupation. I do not see how the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the intention behind the amendment. I would like to understand how the text of the amendment relates to a previous commitment of around 50%. It seems to me that the wording of this section gives the local authority much more flexibility, which in my view is a good thing. So a local authority, in its development plan, on foot of a recommendation by a chief executive, if I read...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: In my view, this is probably the weakest section of the Bill. I want to spend a little bit of time going through why in support of the amendments. A small section of amendment No. 49 is missing. It is probably my fault at the submitting end rather than the Bills Office. I might come back to it on Report Stage. The original legislation Eoghan Murphy amended during the lifetime of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I return to the second transitionary mechanism, for those people who do not have pre-planning approval from the board to make their SHD application, because that is the one I think the Minister has got wrong. I say this in all sincerity. My main worry is that applications could come in at a late stage. They have only to enter the pre-planning application process for SHDs by 16 December....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 47: In page 17, line 15, to delete “16 weeks” and substitute “8 weeks”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 49: In page 17, line 30, to delete "16 weeks" and substitute "8 weeks".

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the housing needs demands assessment is being used to determine the level of need for affordable housing in each local authority area in tabular form; and the affordability challenge for each local authority area as determined by the HNDA tool. [58423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total staff number in his Department in each year from 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by housing, local government and heritage in tabular form; and if he will provide a further breakdown of the housing functions by team. [58424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed by the Housing Agency in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the breakdown of staff in terms of function in tabular form. [58425/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of pending staff requests for housing departments in each local authority in tabular form; and the details of the grades of the pending staff requests and the length of time each request is pending. [58426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Credit Unions (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of efforts to see credit union lending for social and affordable housing. [58427/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the provision of the school transport service in relation to a school (details supplied); the steps that are being taken to ensure children in attendance have transport as soon as possible; and if she will provide a clear timeframe as to when transport will commence for the children. [58259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a clear timeline for the provision of an adequately resourced sensory room at a school (details supplied). [58260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a clear timeline for the provision of an adequately resourced outdoor play area at a school (details supplied). [58261/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of secondary school places available to cater to the youth population living in the Lucan area; and the steps her Department plans to take to ensure that capacity is increased as soon as possible. [59119/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 529. To ask the Minister for Health his views that student nurses have to pay car parking fees of €75 per week while on placement in hospitals; and if he will confirm that he will work with the Minister for Further and Higher Education; Research; Innovation and Science to put in place a waiver for student nurses from paying hospital car parking fees when on placement in hospitals....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 728. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the Rotunda Hospital is now allowing fathers to attend the birth of their children in the maternity hospital; and if not, the steps he is taking to have this matter resolved. [59086/21]