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Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 4, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: "(ii) an emergency period in respect of the provisions of the Principal Act and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, and any instrument under the foregoing, so as to provide for a uniform and fair approach, with the exception of the potential to provide for different...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, to delete lines 22 to 25.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 4, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(4) Where an order under subsection (2) specifies emergency periods under subsection (3)(b)(i) or subsection (3)(b)(ii), or both, in making the order the Government shall also consider— (a) the likely interest of the public in the administrative area for which the order is made, in...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 4, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(4) In the context of the practical challenges the public are likely to be encountering during the period necessitating the making of the order under subsection (2), the Government in making decisions on the specifications of emergency periods under subsection (3) shall— (a) make...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. On first reading the Bill and after listening to the debate in the Seanad, the circumstances in which the Minister was intending to use these powers were not quite clear, but having discussed it with his officials there are, in principle, two key areas where the powers outlined in the sections of the Bill to which these amendments relate could be used....

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 17, to delete “appropriate” and substitute “essential”. Amendments Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive, relate to section 3 of the Bill, and specifically to powers being given to the Minister to extend emergency periods applying, for example, to planning decisions of a local authority or An Bord Pleanála or, indeed, public...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: If this was only an emergency measure to deal with the difficulties of holding public meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic, I would support it. I am clear on the fact that it only relates to the holding of meetings at the very early, pre-plan stage. I make my comments in that context. The permanency of the Minister's proposed measures is a mistake, which is why Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two technical questions for the Minister. Can I take it from his explanation of amendment No. 16 and its relationship to the definition in amendment No. 2 that the changing of the wording in amendment No. 16 is purely typographical as opposed to having substantive significance? In effect, the Act of 2020 is indeed the Health (Preservation and Protection and Other Emergency Measures...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To clarify, the group includes amendments Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, 16 to 18, inclusive, and 29 and 30. Should the Minister address all those before we raise queries? That might be easier if that is the grouping.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, are pretty inconsequential compared with some others. I have some questions on amendments Nos. 16 and 29.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am sorry to be pedantic but amendments Nos. 29 and 30 are also in the grouping. It is unusual because they relate to the Long Title but they are in the group.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully accept the need to use such a motion to introduce amendments that are Covid-related because of the emergency nature of the pandemic. However, the use of this mechanism to introduce what is essentially an entirely new Bill to address the legal problems with existing substitute consent legislation is wholly inadequate. It is important to remember that this issue has not just been...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his outline. In my five years in the Dáil, this is the fifth year in a row that in the dying days or hours of the December term very complex amending legislation on planning and residential tenancies has been brought before the House. In each of those years the legislation was been brought to the House in an incredibly unconventional and, I believe, unhelpful...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that determine whether or not a dog can be classified as an assistance dog; and the body responsible for setting such criteria. [43907/20]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: On Monday of this week, I launched "What is the True Level of Homelessness?", a short report of which the Minister was highly critical before he departed the Chamber earlier. It is clear that he has not read the report, so I will summarise it for the Minister of State. A monthly report is produced by the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government and it reports the number of...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing my time with a number of colleagues. Finbar and Mary are a working family. Finbar has a full-time job and Mary has a part-time job. They have young children. They are just above the threshold for eligibility for social housing. They were renting accommodation for approximately €1,200 a month but got notice to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 394. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children who accessed Tusla-funded domestic violence refuge accommodation to date in 2020; the average length of time families spent in such accommodation; and the number of beds available on a given night in 2019. [42921/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 395. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres after their leave to remain has been granted for the most recent date available. [42922/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and the work both of their organisations are doing. It is important when talking about HAP not to talk about it alone because it is only one of four rental subsidies in the market. We have HAP, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, the rent supplement and long-term leasing. For next year, the Government has provided €1.05 billion for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: HAP is removed from housing list figures, by way of information.