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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. I said that to the Minister of State and did not need it explained back to me. The issue is very specific. For instance, I got a maritime area consent. I put in my planning application. There is a judicial review of the consent. These will be large, complex and difficult applications. We are allowing the planning authority to proceed to make a decision. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The number of applications has been tiny and the number of purchases has been in the tens. Not a single one of the tenants affected has been transferred onto an affordable rent. The application process is too cumbersome and people do not know about the scheme. It is another of the Minister's failures. He is now telling us that none of that can change until there is change to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Dillon is the fourth Minister of State since 2018 to stand up in the House and read out almost exactly the same script. It is an open secret, and this will be of value to Deputy Flaherty, that the guidelines have been ready and complete for at least two if not three Ministers of State, but for reasons of political controversy they are not being published. We will not see the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----disagreement between Government parties. If I am incorrect, I would like the Minister to put that clearly on the record. The problem is that this is another of those occasions where he makes it seem like he is doing something but where it appears that nothing is actually going to happen. I suspect what will happen is that eventually a memo will go to Cabinet, with both the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How is it possible at a time of rising social housing output that homelessness is also rising? The answer is simple. The targets the Government has set in its plan are too low and it is not meeting those targets. The Minister is correct that just over 8,000 new-build social homes were delivered last year, which is 1,000 short of the Government's target. When you look at the total number...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is now a year since the Government took the disastrous decision to end the ban on no-fault evictions. At the time, we told the Government that if it did that without the appropriate supports and prevention measures being in place, homelessness would rise month on month, as it has done. There has been a 13% increase in homelessness among people and a shocking 16% increase in homelessness...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To say the Minister's response is Orwellian would be an understatement. Let us look at the facts. As regards his affordable purchase scheme, the only Government scheme that delivers anything close to genuinely affordable homes, he missed his target last year by 63%. As regards the cost-rental scheme, he missed his target by 59%. As regards the first home scheme, which he has lauded, he...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I know subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) in section 99 are not intended to deal with the kind of vexatious, extortionate misuse of the planning process that other amendments will deal with, in the cases that were in RTÉ's "Prime Time" programme, there would be nothing to stop people who want to use the planning process and the cover of bogus environmental NGOs from just setting up an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the very top of page 224.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would urge some caution here. First, in the case that Deputy Boyd Barrett talks about, if it was such a dramatic change to the original Part 8, councillors have the right to vote it down and to force it back out. I do not know the details of the case in question, but that is a procedure that is there. I would also caution Deputy Matthews because my experience in South Dublin County...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume this arises in part out of the use of phasing in strategic development zones. In the Clonburris strategic development zone the phasing agreement at the end, which, in my understanding, is legally binding, is a really positive addition. It also goes to reassure residents, particularly where there is a development with thousands of homes, that where there is clear provision of land...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This relates to extensions as well as alterations, if I am correct. There is a fairly significant Celtic-tiger era development in my constituency. The developer fell into financial difficulty after having completed only one third of the development and then got stuck in terms of inability to complete the development. The developer went into receivership and a receiver took over. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two further questions. This is an important section regarding the operation of the timelines. At page 235, the Bill states: “notify the Minister and the Office of the Planning Regulator that it has not made the decision”. It is only after the ten weeks has expired that the notification to the Minister has to be made, so that in every individual application-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is clear from section 116(2)(b)(i). Section 116(2)(b)(ii) then goes beyond that stating "circumstances relating to any particular class of development as may be prescribed." Obviously, that means they would have to be prescribed in legislation but what kind of other circumstances is it envisaged would be in those regulations at this point?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The generality of this is about the design envelope issue. Obviously, we will come to that in section 117 as well. This is to give flexibility beyond that, should the circumstances arise. Is the Minister saying that at this point in time there are not necessarily circumstances that would fit that, but who knows what may happen in the future?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means the net effect of it is there is a six-week period provided for in subsection (5) and then an additional one week in this. Is there a second fine at the end of that week?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What happens at the end of that week if a decision is not made?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ultimately, it would be at the discretion of the Minister to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one quick question. These are all just standard transpositions from the existing legislation. There is nothing new in section 125 at all. Okay.