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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What you want is development closest to the existing settlement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will take real-world examples of Newcastle, Rathcoole and other such areas. Not everybody here knows them as well as I do but they will get my logic. If there is urban settlement and residentially-zoned land within the existing county development plan, the 40% must be in land within the existing built-up area or immediately beside it within the boundary and not the next bit out within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, within the boundary. Compact growth will only be that which is closest to the existing built-up area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Immediately contiguous to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to ensure I am clear on this. I know national policy objectives Nos. 8 and 9 have not changed and that 40% of the new homes are to be within the built-up footprint of existing settlements. Objectives Nos. 8 and 9 are separate. Objective No. 8 refers to delivering 50% of all new homes that are targeted in the five cities and suburbs of Dublin and the others, but not all of that 50%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get that but I am trying to understand it. Let us say the Taoiseach gets his way and there are 50,000 homes a year, as outlined. Of those homes that are being delivered in the cities, 50% have to be in the cities and suburbs, while 30% have to be in all of the other targeted settlements. That means 20% are not within any of those settlements. One would assume those are one-off houses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The 50% there is not 50% of all of the new homes delivered in the State, it is just 50% of the new homes delivered in the cities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a small thing but that could be read both ways in terms of its phrasing. I know it is not a change; they are the existing ones. It is almost like when you read the 50% and then the 30%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and then you are adding the 20% for the one-offs. Ms Kenny is saying that is not how to read those percentages, however?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I might add something for the Chair's consideration. I agree with him on not running any extension of the consultation deadline beyond September because we are then into the budget cycle, etc. I think it was Deputy Leddin who suggested it, but running the consultation until the end of September, or close to it, would be very wise. Not everybody has the same calendar as Oireachtas Members....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I certainly would not extend it beyond September.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, because of your policies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Opposition is in charge now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the Attorney General?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You are too embarrassed to address the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We tabled 80 amendments to the legislation, which you rejected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: You rejected 80 amendments to the legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: He is too embarrassed to even address the question, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about treating the homeowners with dignity and respect?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Tánaiste could have spoken up for the homeowners.