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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We move on to the issue of fire resolutions and timber building in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Okay. That will be the new year work programme. I will move on to the Land Development Agency briefing. I think we can all agree that the committee would benefit from a presentation from the LDA. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The latest update I have on the prospective legislative agenda is that the heads of the Bill preparation and pre-legislative scrutiny is taking place on the Land Development Agency Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am happy enough with that. Now to strategic housing development.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: With the length of time left to run of the strategic housing development plan, is that something the Deputy would address sooner rather that pushing it out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: After Senator Fitzpatrick, I will call Senator Moynihan and Deputy Ó Broin. Are we in agreement that we invite the board to attend to deal with SHDs as a matter of urgency? Agreed. Does the issue Senator Fitzpatrick wishes to raise in reference to this one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: If we brought the board in, we would not limit the discussion to SHDs. We could open the discussion up to other aspects of the board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Did Deputy Ó Broin wish to comment on this matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I actually have an invitation to the OPR down on my list. We might invite it in along with the others or separately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I agree with the Deputy. Some of the presentations received, as a councillor, on SHDs and the websites had much more information than one would normally get in a normal planning application. It would improve the planning system to include that as well. The last issue raised by Deputy Duffy was the affordable purchase scheme. Senators Cummins and Moynihan mentioned the affordable housing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Yes, and it is with the Department as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I am not sure where that is in the pipeline at the moment. Will we invite the Department in to discuss an affordable housing scheme and affordable purchase scheme? Agreed. Did Senator Cummins mention the affordable purchase scheme and the Land Development Agency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The list is quite long. Is there anything that I have not covered so far that Senator Cummins wishes to highlight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreeable to members? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The Deputy is probably right that we should do that instead of trying to fit too much into one session. We will have to separate these issues out but it will also depend on the forthcoming legislation and on where we need to feed into it. We only have another 15 minutes left here and there are quite a number of suggestions to go through still. Would Senator Cummins spend two minutes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: We have the Estimates afterwards at 12.15 p.m., so we have to be out by 12 noon. I will leave it up to members. We can extend this discussion on the work programme into the next meeting rather than trying to rush through it here and miss stuff. Are members happy to do that? Our work programme is important and I do not want to rush it. We have been a bit rushed with meetings today and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: I would rather do this in a more orderly way and make sure every member's voice is heard. Does Senator Cummins want to continue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: The Senator does not need to go through them one by one because we have covered some of the stuff he has mentioned here. Are there any headline issues the Senator wants to raise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Steven Matthews: Is that agreed? Agreed.