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

Eoin Ó Broin: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) in tabular form. [27732/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if statistical information in relation to the allocation of funding will be provided (details supplied). [27734/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 705 of 21 April 2021, the estimated cost of upgrading all developer provided water infrastructure in the 566 residential developments. [27735/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the MICA and pyrite remediation schemes for counties Donegal and Mayo given the difficulty applicants to those schemes are experiencing. [27942/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the issues in relation to local authorities acquiring construction materials from companies that previously provided materials with MICA. [27943/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been acquired that were once listed on a website (details supplied) and other short-term letting websites since July 2020 as reported in an article. [28355/21]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Departmental senior officials' group that was set up to examine further regulation for short-term letting platforms as reported in an article (details supplied). [28356/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Aircraft (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 324. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a US military transport plane landed at Baldonnel Aerodrome on 18 May 2021 to refuel; if so, the locations the aircraft was travelling to and from; and if the plane was carrying weapons. [27786/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Mountjoy Prison; the way the prison is being managed with respect to limiting the spread of infection; the way the outbreak is affecting prisoners access to facilities; and when prisoners will receive Covid-19 vaccinations. [27876/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, line 4, to delete “Land Development Agency” and substitute “Active Land Management Agency”. I wish to seek one quick clarification that might help me and the Minister work our way through this list. There are four very large groupings of amendments. Is the Chairman going to take the amendments one by one to get through the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but the Minister will have to respond to each one of these groupings. Might it be easier to take them in little chunks to speed up the discussion?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This amendment speaks to the fundamental difference between our party's approach to this new agency and the Government's. When the agency was first mooted in the national planning framework, it was quite clear that the purpose of the agency was to be primarily in the area of active land management, something for which the NESC, the ESRI, the Housing Agency and others have called for a very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said, this is the first in a series of amendments that seek to shift the focus of the Bill onto active land management. I will move on to my second amendment in this grouping, amendment No. 13. The Minister will be able to see very clearly what we are trying to do here in respect of active land management. The function of the agency should be to assemble land and, as amendment No. 13...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the three amendments of mine. A change in this Bill does not in any way delay any development. In fact, if you take Shanganagh Castle as a case in point, it is the involvement of the LDA that has delayed that development by more than three years. To their great credit, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county councillors unanimously approved a broad outline of a scheme for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful and move things on, I will also speak to my other amendments, which are part of the group of amendments Nos. 75 to 85, because they are consequent to the discussion. Deputy McAuliffe and the Minister asked a very important question, which is why would one prevent the LDA from being a residential developer and there are a number of very good reasons. First, because the LDA,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. To reassure Deputy Higgins, the Opposition takes its role on Committee Stage very seriously given we were denied pre-legislative scrutiny on this Bill. It is a fundamentally different Bill from the former Minister, Eoghan Murphy's earlier version, as the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, rightly reminded us of. The purpose of this Committee Stage, as I understand it, is twofold....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to fully support amendment No. 2 and to speak to my amendment No. 3, which is broadly trying to do the same thing. This is an important and key element of the Bill and it is where the Opposition is united in trying to ensure that the maximum number of affordable homes are delivered on any site that is being developed by the Land Development Agency. In his response to me when...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the last number of amendments I have in this group. First, it is important to remember that the LDA was established in September 2018. It will be five years before it delivers a single home. That does not appear to suggest it has either the capacity, ability or the urgency to meet the challenges of the housing crisis. In fact, if the former Deputy, Eoghan Murphy, had...