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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The draw downs are zero in both the city and the county councils.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I found Mr. McGrath's response to be very positive. There was a significant underspend in the city last year and there is a gap in the spend for this year. Is Mr. McGrath confident that most of it will be spent this year or will it be rolled over for completion next year? I appreciate that pipelines are moveable feasts but the underspends, in the city in particular, have been very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: To answer Mr. McGrath, the recommendations will be taken seriously by the committee. The one that concerned me was the value for money exercise drifting down to €15 million. That does not seem to make any sense at all. Is Mr. McGrath saying that he is being asked to undertake those exercises for projects below €20 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the rationale for that, from the Department to the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA's point of view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: How much additional time in terms of the overall development does that cost benefit analysis take? Does it take three months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are we talking in terms of months?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (6 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include Traveller specific accommodation developments in the quarterly social housing construction pipeline report. [51252/18]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the extension dependent on when the Bill completes all Stages?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would, therefore, be a matter of days or weeks.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: For clarity, boundary changes are not a part of this Bill so it would not be appropriate to discuss them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It can be discussed during Private Members' time or during discussions on Government legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest of respect, this has nothing to do with the Bill. This is not how this committee operates.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: When we debated a motion in the Dáil to allow these amendments through, one of the concerns a number of us raised was that we only received the amendments the previous evening. While the Minister of State had signalled his intention to bring them forward, it still gave us little time to properly scrutinise and get our heads round them. I acknowledge that he made time for us today to go...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State would have ended up back in the courts.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State will not be able to answer it in the time before the division. I will be brief when we come back, if that is okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the replies. I wish to raise a couple of quick points. The Minister of State will learn that we are always polite and friendly on this committee.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is my point. Let me say this in regard to pre-legislative scrutiny. I am only saying this because the Minister of State will be coming back to us with other Bills. If some of the amendments we received on Monday night had been in the Bill originally, we might have taken a different view of it. I am only saying that because-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that, but I want to say this because it is relevant to future Bills. Those of us who took the decision not to have pre-legislative scrutiny did so on the basis of the Bill as published. I wish to quickly raise two issues. I asked the Minister of State for information on the costs arising from the new section 38. I refer to the additional cost for local authorities. Regarding...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the explanation. Of all of the amendments that were covered by yesterday's motion, this group of amendments are of the biggest concern and I share all of the concerns outlined by Deputy Casey. One reason pre-legislative scrutiny was introduced was to allow us to tease out the kind of questions we will ask now and to get responses from both Ministers...