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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 248: In page 174, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "(iiia) that a copy of the application, and any further or additional information submitted on the application subsequently will be available on the application website and on the website of the Board,".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might ask a question on amendment No. 254. I appreciate these are technical amendments but I am always wary of technical amendments because they can have a wider import than is obvious to us when reading them. On the inclusion of subsection (7) in amendment No. 254, what is the rationale for or, more important, the impact of including that in this section?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but there is a reason that is included in this section and I presume there is a rationale for its inclusion.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why is that necessary at that point?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The office did not give a rationale as to why it should be in that part of the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even a written answer would be perfect. I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have another technical question. With respect to the reference to proper planning and sustainable development, which, of course, we all support, where and how are they defined? They are inserted in amendment No. 256, but against what are they measured or defined for the purposes of the Bill?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment no. 285: In page 214, after line 14, to insert the following: “19. A condition that would ensure continued benefits to the local community, area, environment or economy.”. In the interests of time and given we may complete the Bill today, which I think everybody would prefer, I am going to withdraw the amendment. I do not want to repeat the conversation...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are getting to the giddy part of the sixth or seventh session ,but I want to make several points and ask questions. As I read amendment No. 302 and as the Minister of State outlined its provisions, a shiver went down my spine as he articulated the iron grip of central government planning regulations closing in on what little is left of the local democracy of our city and county...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand the Attorney General and five or six senior counsels are being brought in to that piece of work. For the purpose of clarity, if any of us have questions about this and if we are in a position to email as a committee to the officials, they might clarify some of those between now and Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We might do that as a committee.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure to date on homeless HAP. [54018/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies in Dublin at the end of each quarter from Q1 2016 to Q1 2021, in tabular form. [54019/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will undertake a fundamental review of An Bord Pleanála to ensure that its decisions are made with good quality place making and democratic decision making in planning in view of the latest High Court decision against An Bord Pleanála with respect to the Dublin City Council material amendments to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the establishment of a deposit retention scheme given the legislation passed on this matter by the Houses of the Oireachtas in 2015 and in view of the loss of deposits by tenants of a company (details supplied) when the company went into liquidation. [54114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final date for strategic housing development pre-planning applications to An Bord Pleanála; and the expected final deadline for full strategic housing development applications to An Bord Pleanála in view of the delay in the introduction and passing of the planning and development (amendment) (LSRD) Bill. [54144/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement the recommendations in the July 2013 report titled Report on the Title of the Architect; and if he will support the call from an organisation (details supplied) to include a standard grandfather clause in Part 3 of the Building Control Act 2007. [54512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [54549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to works carried out in the basement of Emo Court in January 2019 prior to the granting of a derogation licence; and his views on and if he will address same. [54610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (9 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a recommendation of prosecution from the NPWS regarding works carried out at Emo Court that involved the disturbance of a bat roost. [54611/21]