Results 14,001-14,020 of 15,065 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Overdue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: With regard to my amendments Nos. 96 and 98, I am happy not to press amendment No. 96. I do have a concern that the wording as we agreed last year is not as clear as the Minister thinks. I ask that the officials look at the wording that is in the Act at present regarding the 100 units. I still think there is some uncertainty about it. If people could look at it, they could come back and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine. With regard to amendment No. 98, I have a real concern that the section that I seek to remove could be used by developers to hoard land and not to develop it until property prices are at a higher level. What they could do is have live planning permissions and deliberately not develop them even though they have the resources to do so, clearly knowing that they have a fast track...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that basis, I am happy to withdraw amendment No. 98, but may come back to it depending on the revised text from the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support the amendment. It is one of the issues I raised when we were dealing with the general strategic housing development legislation last year. One issue I have is that there are good local authorities that try to expedite the meetings for pre-planning as quickly as possible. One of the complaints they often have is that the information they receive from the applicant comes very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but not the day before. For example, when I sat on South Dublin County Council, a developer would look for pre-planning and the council would be willing to get it done quickly. It would set a date but the documentation would only come in the day before the meeting. That would not allow the relevant officials time to properly examine it. I think it could help. However, I fully...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 90:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: “PART 5 FURTHER MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTSAmendments to Part 1 of Act of 2000 16. The Act of 2000 is amended by inserting the following into the Table to section 1A—“DIRECTIVE 2011/92/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope "Callan's Kicks" was not listening to that because he would have a field day with it next Saturday. I thank the Minister for the detailed response and I will come back to some of that on Report Stage rather than trying to rush through it in the few minutes we have left. I will press a few amendments and withdraw a few others

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I have my support recorded? Is that appropriate?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendments to Screening for environmental impact assessment 16. The Act of 2000 is amended—(a) in section 176A(3) by substituting the following for paragraph (e):"(e) any such other information as is required under Directive 2011/92/EU as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU where such information shall be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can my support be recorded?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 95:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 42 16. (1) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by substituting "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority shall" for "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority may". (2) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by inserting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 97:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 7(1)(a), and consequential amendment to sections 7(2), 7(3) and section 22. 16. (1) Section 7(1)(a) of the Act of 2016 is amended by inserting the following after subparagraph (ii)—"(iii) any determination under this part shall be made in accordance with sections 176B and 176C, and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question for the Minister. Is there a timeline or date for transposition of the 2014 environmental impact assessment directive? It will not be transposed by 16 May 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (11 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of engineers employed in the roads department of Galway County Council; if they are allocated by geographic area or by project; and if they have the resources necessary to deliver their current work plan. [17989/17]

Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The three schemes to which the Minister of State referred are good. While he often complains that I give him a hard time, I have publicly stated these schemes are worth supporting. The problem is that over the six years of the schemes, the Department's target is to deliver 6,600 houses, which amounts to 3% of the vacant housing stock to which Deputy Casey referred. I urge the Minister to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the figure of 850 in accommodation. It is clear that he is not willing to give a commitment that those families will be moved into permanent tenancies. If I understand him correctly, he is saying that they will only be moved into other emergency accommodation if that is what is in their best interests. If somebody does not need supported temporary accommodation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am trying to get a commitment.