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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely and I may take less time. I want to come back to Mr. Benson of the CIF. Nowhere in his detailed submission did he mention the specific issue I raised on the particularly low level of commencements of SHDs. He spoke about an overall increase of commencement of all residential stock. This is surprising because the submission rightly spends considerable time on the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social housing funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 can access energy efficient retrofitting schemes in the future. [41608/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if one to one music classes are identified as a personal service; and if she will provide clarity on the return of one to one music classes under the current public health guidelines. [42203/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when indoor sports training is likely to recommence; and when guidelines will be issued. [41974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the geo-mapping work of vacant homes currently underway in local authorities; if his Department is collating this information centrally; and if not, if he will consider doing so. [41964/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 13 July 2021, in relation to HAP eligibility and maintenance payments the reason policy does not provide for the deduction of regular outgoings such as maintenance; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases maintenance payments are being assessed as income...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme for 2021. [42240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to long waiting periods experienced by persons needing to obtain a public services card; and the steps her Department is taking to ensure the card can be obtained as soon as possible for the purpose of accessing important public services. [42887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1517. To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care will be extended to those under the age of eight years. [43175/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1249. To ask the Minister for Health when live music will return for indoor receptions in relation to public health guidelines for weddings; and if consideration has been given to using the Digital Covid Certificate system to facilitate this. [42204/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1170. To ask the Minister for Health the payments made by large pharmaceutical companies based in Ireland in the past five years; the amounts involved in these payments; and the purpose of the payments. [41939/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1248. To ask the Minister for Health if one to one music classes are identified as a personal service; and if he will provide clarity on the return of one to one music classes under the current public health guidelines. [42202/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and confirm that I am in Leinster House. I thank Mr. Hogan for his presentation. The understatement of the day is the description of there having been some criticism of the SHD process. Most of us are of the view that it has been an absolute disaster in the context of the lack of commencements of grants of permission, the level of judicial reviews and just the general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through the questions one by one rather than giving the witnesses a big list. Whatever we do not get to, we can return to later. The witnesses said they will provide some statistics later. It would be great to get the percentage of individual units commenced of the 52,000 units in total. Likewise, it would be great to get a breakdown of the judicial reviews of residential SHD...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On head 5 with respect to pre-planning, I am a strong supporter of a statutory timeline for this. Was any consideration given to providing some level of public consultation and access to documentation during pre-planning? If not, is the Department confident that the proposition outlined in this head is Aarhus compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On head 8 and the Minister having the power to prescribe the specific issues that can be addressed by way of further information requests, one of my concerns is that if we restrict what additional information can be requested at that stage, after the substantive decision by the planning authority, we may run into trouble with our obligations under EU environmental directives, for example, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a bad record in the meeting of some of those obligations and we are currently being fined for some of them on planning grounds. We are trying to make sure that we do not make the mistakes of previous planning legislation and planning decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one last question. Why are we giving the board an opt-out from meeting its statutory timeline if it feels it cannot meet it? What is the rationale for that? We expect the local authorities who make the principal assessment of the application, which is much more onerous in my view, to meet their timeline. Why is the board, under head 9, subsection 3, getting that slight flexibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why would the board be given that opt-out? Is Ms Gallagher saying the Department will remove that opt-out and it will simply be sanctioned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Have I time left or have I run out?