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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, line 11, after “of” to insert “social, affordable cost rental and affordable purchase”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, line 12, to delete “and in particular affordable and social housing”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 8, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) to provide land for the provision of Traveller specific accommodation,”. As every member of the committee knows, the failure of local and central government to meet the housing needs of the Traveller community is one of our greatest national disgraces. It is not just that members of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for that response. We worked very well together on this issue when the Minister was in opposition, along with our former committee colleague, Senator Pat Casey. At some point, we must grasp the nettle of tackling the real obstacles to the delivery of Traveller-specific accommodation. It is significant that the report by the expert group on Traveller accommodation was...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I thank the Minister for that commitment. On that basis, I am happy to withdraw the amendment. If the Government does not table some alternative wording on Report Stage, it will be my intention and, I am sure, that of other Opposition Deputies to re-table these amendments. The issue is very important to us. I agree with the Minister that, if we can do this on a unanimous basis, it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I am speaking also in support of the intent of Deputy Boyd Barrett's amendments. Amendment No. 80 attempts to provide that all of the homes on land that the LDA is developing should be affordable housing. I cannot see any justification for allowing the very scarce resource of public land to be used for unaffordable housing. If the Minister wants to make a case as to the reason that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 8, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) to provide land for the provision of accommodation for those in the asylum application process”. It is possibly a similar discussion to the one we have just had. The appalling accommodation regime that has been in place for people seeking asylum in our State is well documented....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is important about this amendment and marks it as different from the previous one is that it about the provision of land. There will be a response from within the relevant Department, assisted by the Housing Agency, in terms of the mechanism or agency that will deliver the accommodation stream we are talking about. I am not arguing that local authorities or the LDA should be providing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but I reserve the right to reintroduce it, or another version of it, on Report Stage, if required.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I move amendment No. 8: In page 8, line 14, after "for" to insert "social, affordable cost rental and affordable purchase".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: "(c) to ensure the delivery of vibrant and sustainable mixed income communities,". To expedite the process, I will speak to my three amendments Nos. 9, 38 and 86 now. For me, amendment No. 9 is important. There is a very unfortunate language that has become pervasive in a lot of housing policy...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I raise a point of order? It is not on the amendment. Obviously, it is taking us some time to get through this, although we have got through approximately half of the amendments at this stage. It would be valuable if the Chair and the clerk of the committee were able to get consecutive meetings for next week so that we could try to finish out the discussion. While we want to have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the May 2021 Regulation of Commercial Institutional Investment in Housing guidelines for Planning Authorities only apply to houses and duplexes in low density developments; if so, the level at which the density is set; if houses and duplexes in high density densities will be covered by these guidelines; and the way units...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Saturday, thousands of people joined demonstrations in Donegal and Mayo. They called on the Government to deliver a 100% redress scheme for those whose homes have been, and are being, destroyed by defective blocks containing mica and pyrite. This issue, as the Minister knows, also affects homeowners in County Clare. Under the existing scheme, some homeowners are having to pay the cost...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is revealing that the Minister did not at any stage say that it is wrong for taxpayers' money to be given to large developers who do not need it to build houses and apartments that will be sold to large institutional investors who will charge working families rip-off rents. That is either right or wrong. I would like to hear the Minister's response in respect of it. The Poolbeg...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Green Party has long campaigned for affordable homes. It promised to invest in large-scale affordable housing developments and reuse vacant stock for affordable homes, thereby revitalising our urban centres and tackling climate change. The Green Party continually promotes compact growth and rightly advocates for the 15-minute city. Yet, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service Provision (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the search and rescue helicopter service contract. [27908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if there have been changes made to the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 in view of the Supreme Court decision of June 2020 (details supplied). [27902/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person purchasing wine online from another EU member state must pay excise duty on the purchase; if so, the rate; and the documentation that is required by the purchaser. [28056/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports his Department is providing to Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council in its master planning of the Ballymount industrial estate site between the Red Cow and Bluebell. [27731/21]