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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a really important issue, and we need to separate it from the issue of defects. This does not just affect apartments. Any observer of large new residential developments will notice that an increasing number of houses are being brought under the remit of owners' management companies, sometimes in very questionable ways. We are seeing this in Adamstown and parts of Lucan. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be efficient with our time, if the Government is to bring in LDA legislation, we might combine that to have an LDA briefing on all of its work to date in a Zoom format, and follow that with consideration of the Bill. I am happy to be supportive of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Members will recall that we held five separate pre-legislative scrutiny meetings in October, November and December last year, but we are expecting the Bill to be significantly changed. The previous committee made a very detailed submission looking for quite substantial changes. It is my understanding that the Government wants to publish the legislation before the end of 2020, so it will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. This is one of those instances of "We told you so". Members from a variety of parties who opposed this legislation when it was introduced in 2016 highlighted that it was designed to circumvent the city and county development plans. The legislation is clear. When taking a planning decision, local authorities must abide by city and county development plans. The board does not. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a piece of legislation, whether we get it before or after Christmas, the issue is in there as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support Senator Cummins's suggestion that we do a session on affordable housing. We know the Minister is due to introduce a new affordable housing scheme and there might be more money in the budget for it, so that is something we should do. On Senator Fitzpatrick's proposal, the Department is doing an assessment of the financing of all the different delivery mechanisms for social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reclassification of the approved housing bodies has been back off the Government balance sheet, which is a big issue, as are the issues of funding and land provision for the approved housing bodies. It would be useful to do a whole session looking at the range of issues involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would make two points. The reality is that if there is not additional provision in the budget, this issue in respect of councillors is not going to be dealt next year. I agree with bringing the Minister in. That would be the Minister of State responsible for this, Deputy Peter Burke. Bringing the author of the report and the Minister of State in is fine. That is the way to do it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful, as it takes some time to get witnesses agreed and so on, is it possible for us to at least agree the next four meetings, given the secretariat has to contact people? There seems to be a strong consensus that the issue of strategic housing development, SHD, is urgent, the defects issue is important, there is homelessness and then there is the Minister in the week after the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are waiting for the legislation, which has not been published yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: They were the SHD, defects, homelessness and the Minister, and the Minister would be, strictly speaking, two weeks after the budget but it is the first committee meeting after the budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It may be worthwhile asking when the Minister expects the LDA legislation to be ready before we set a date for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear on what I am proposing, I am proposing the next four meetings be on the SHD review, the latent defects issue, homelessness and the Minister on the quarterly update on his progress, although it will be, in the main, a discussion about the budget because that will have just happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is the board, the Irish Planning Institute, the County and City Management Association and the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Construction Defects Alliance, the Department and the Minister, if he is willing to attend.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have read it twice, the Minister will be happy to know.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I welcome the Minister. I have a series of very practical questions to put to him. On the Estimates for local authority funding, the rates funding is hugely welcome but there is a significant volume of funding at issue in regard to the loss of non-rates revenue, particularly for some western seaboard counties, as well as other Covid-19 factors. I understand it was €10 million...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister and I were both critical of his predecessor for presenting information in a way that was less than clear. It would be helpful if the Minister were to provide a report on voids, broken down between long-term voids and casual vacancies. Some 1,200 properties were funded through a similar programme last year. Only 300 of those were long-term voids. The rest were casual...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Appeals (30 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his consideration of the Planning Regulator's report and recommendation on overturning the planning permission for the east Cork retail park; and when a decision will be made on the report. [27448/20]

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: First Stage (29 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and to repeal the Build to Rent and Shared Accommodation sections of the following guidelines issued to planning authorities thereafter, namely Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments, March 2018. Every week, we hear of another co-living planning...