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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 913 seeks to remove the words "20 per cent" to "not less than 50" in section 224. As previously stated, any amendment to Part V policy risks delaying housing delivery as the sector comes to terms with its implications. With the Planning and Development Bill 1999, President McAleese referred Part V of the Bill to the Supreme Court for consideration of its compatibility with the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: It was the President who referred it previously.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a legal requirement for the LDA to do 100%. That just needs to be clarified. Deputy Boyd Barrett used different language which might have indicated that it was not 100%.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: What about No. 914?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 914 seeks to delete section 224(2)(b) which gives local authorities the option of accepting houses in lieu of land. We cannot accept this proposed amendment as it is important for local authorities to have as many options as possible available to them when negotiating a Part V agreement, including the provision of houses off-site for reasons of affordability and suitability. ...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendments Nos. 902 and 904 from Deputy Duffy seek to add reference to the "whole life carbon impact" of developments. As previously noted, with respect to whole-life carbon emissions, this is a complex area that is, from a data point of view, at an early stage of development, particularly when this is applied to a complex area such as the built environment. For example, matters not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: On the last point, I think there are some examples across Dublin where local authorities have done just that in the context of public-private partnerships. Services were put in and the site made available after they had partnered up.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes, it does. In relation to the compulsory purchase order process, this is a process. The local authority cannot direct the valuation within the CPO process. This is an independent input, as the Deputy is aware. Whatever is being bought via a compulsory purchase order is being bought at market value. This must be borne in mind. Much of what the Deputy referred to is going to be the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: I have two points. The Law Reform Commission has prepared a report on CPO reform and the Government is committed to reviewing it and bringing forward legislation if needed, which would include changes to the CPO process in planning. In addition, a land value sharing Bill is being prepared and it will come forward as a stand-alone Bill.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: It is dealing with the valuation side and the process side. It is looking at both legs of the stool and, in time, it will come forward as stand-alone legislation to amend the planning Act.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: It was done under the current system.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: There is nothing to stop this-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: That is our point as well.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: That is where we part ways.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: The exemption in based on the viability of providing social and-or affordable and cost-rental on small sites. While the deletion of this subsection would marginally increase the capture of Part V units in dense urban locations where brownfield or infill development on sites of 0.1 ha or less takes place, there are a limited number of examples where development of four or more units has taken...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: The wording is "consisting of the provision of four or fewer houses or for housing on land of 0.1 ha or less."
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.