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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: The Taoiseach raises important points in his responses in terms of interconnectivity and biodiversity, our inland waterways and the UK-Northern Ireland marine area as well. It is vital we take action on marine protected areas that covers all of the waters around our island, and in the area of transport. Investment in improving that interconnectivity through the Belfast-Dublin rail line is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Taoiseach. It is particularly important that investment and supports are required for the data gathering and science gathering we need for marine areas. While I fully support the offshore renewable energy industry and the positive benefits it can bring in areas like job creation, energy resilience and surety of supply, we must ensure that development is carried out with marine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: The business of the committee meeting today is to consider the draft Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and the draft Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021. This will be followed by consideration of the draft report on pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme of the affordable housing Bill. Later, we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: We will commence then with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and the Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021. We are joined this morning by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O’Brien, accompanied by Mr. Terry Sheridan, Mr. Conor O’Sullivan and Mr. Jason Taylor from his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Broin and echo his comments that that is the spirit in which all of us on this committee work, which is in a collegiate and collaborative manner to try to forward, as best we can, housing policy. I invite the Minister now to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. These are entirely sensible amendments to the exemptions and they support that funding of €17 million that was announced through Bord Fáilte for outdoor dining equipment and the announcement yesterday of a further €15 million to enhance those public, outdoor and open spaces for local authorities. This goes hand in hand with those measures and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Three more members are indicating so I ask everyone to keep their contributions as brief as possible because we have further items on agenda with which we have to deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: That concludes our consideration of the draft Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and the draft Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Orders in draft: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 and the Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: The next item is the consideration of the draft report on pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the affordable housing Bill 2020. At the private meetings last week, we dealt with many of the amendments that came in. There are some amendments that we could not agree on at that meeting. The proposers have asked us to put them to a vote. To put this into context, there were 54...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I invite Deputy Ó Broin to speak on this. I request that a member from each political grouping speak on this. We will get though the amendments that way rather than everyone speaking but I will leave that up to the members. We have possibly eight votes to get through. There is a process of ringing bells and it is time consuming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I will leave that to each member. They are all entitled to speak but it would assist the process if we could restrict it like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes. I invite Deputy Ó Broin to speak on amendment No. 1.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Deputies Duffy and Gould and Senator Boyhan are indicating. I ask them all to be as brief as they possibly can because we will not get through this if everybody speaks on it. Again, everybody has the right to speak on it. I am not trying to stifle that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I am taking people as they indicate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Absolutely. We can revert to the old system. I am trying to keep this as flowing as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I said that members could indicate. I thought I made it perfectly clear in this session. I made it perfectly clear, in the last private session, how we were probably going to conduct this. I call Deputies Duffy and Gould and Senator Boyhan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is a good summation. Deputy Ó Broin had plenty of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: I ask the members to bear in mind we have two very long meetings on this report. Of the 54 amendments, these are ones on which we could not quite agree the wording. It does not need to turn into a political to and fro on policy's of the last ten years. We are discussing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Steven Matthews: Given the time constraints we are under, I ask members to stick solely to the wording of and to speak on the amendments. We will see if we can get agreement. I will put this amendment to a vote. I have been informed-----