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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the recently agreed social housing targets for each local authority with a sub breakdown of social housing new build, acquisition and long-term lease for each local authority in tabular form. [48155/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of affordable purchase and affordable rental targets for each year from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [48156/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 21 September, the number of CREL funded cost-rental homes that will be purchased and made available for tenants in the first quarter of 2022; and the details of the location, unit size and costs of same. [48194/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the civil legal aid scheme; the timeframe in which it will be held; and the details of any public consultation or engagement with stakeholders that it may include. [47649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 787. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the public consultation of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 that was carried out in 2019; if the results of the consultation will be published; and if the Act will be amended to reflect the outcome of the consultation. [48564/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. One of the problems with that presentation is the impression that this is a very light and technical matter. We use words like "efficiency" and "regularise" but it is really important to remember we are talking about unauthorised developments. In some cases we are talking about unauthorised developments that have had and continue to have very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there is a fourth round, I will probably come back in on that round as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: First, with regard to the fines, my calculations are that, as of November of this year, they will be €16.1 million. We owed €10.5 million as of October last year and, as has been said, it is €2.7 million or €2.8 million every six months, so the total amount is €16.1 million. It would be good if that could be confirmed either at the meeting or afterwards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not asking Mr. Kelly to comment on an ongoing legal case. Given his level of knowledge and expertise, to be compliant with the directives in EU law would require being fully regularised and full remediation to be undertaken. That would not be an unreasonable assumption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two comments and then a few more questions. Returning to an important point the Chairman made, it is much more difficult to evaluate the level of environmental damage that has been done by an unauthorised development when there is not an original baseline. Thus while one might have evidence, one does not have evidence about how much damage has been done from the period when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I ask for clarification? If, in the case of a substitute consent application, conditions are applied, including a requirement to remediate, and if there is a parallel application made directly to the board for a planning application to expand the operations, would it be possible to apply a condition specifying that the grant of permission to expand operations cannot be activated until...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask one final question. What is the rate of refusal? Mr. Kelly talked about historic numbers of 30 or 40 and then talked about three or four a year. How commonly is substitute consent refused? If he does not have the figures, perhaps he could provide them to the committee at a later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four more questions but I am not so sure we need a break. It might be better-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not believe we will use the three hours. I do not know about the other Deputies but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go back to some of the questions I had asked earlier that the witnesses did not get an opportunity to answer. I asked a specific question about section 177D(2)(g) which contains the phrase "such other matters as the Board considers relevant". Will Mr. Kelly give us an indication of what such matters these are likely to be? Was legal advice sought on the appropriateness of that...