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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is helpful but if the Minister is in principle in agreement with-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I agree with some of what you say. The bit I agree with is that under section 52 the elected representatives are allowed issue a direction to the chief executive regarding a housing development strategy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It says "issue no more than one direction", so it is limiting it for reasons-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand what the Minister is saying. However, it seems that while this gets at what we are trying to do in the amendment to some degree, I am a little concerned that it is a bit limited and does not spell it out in the clearest terms possible. Perhaps the Minister can provide reassurance on this. I want the members to be involved in the discussion before the draft is developed and,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a final point. I do not want to labour this. Regarding the note to be provided to the committee, I ask the Minister to explain precisely the degree to which the public will be made aware that a housing strategy is being developed and to which they will have an ability to input into it and the role councillors will have in putting together the draft strategy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, just to clarify, regarding the housing strategy that is envisaged here, am I right in saying that it is a bit more than anything we have done before?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will provide the notes on all of that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It put people before profit.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. If I may, I will speak briefly to the Sinn Féin amendment, No. 895, as well as my own amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The amendment the Minister just responded on, amendment No. 895.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This relates to the comments I made earlier. I brought the matter up in the Dail and I would like to hear about this from the Minister. Obviously, the amendment tabled by Deputy Ó Broin and other members of Sinn Féin is on the basis that he is not satisfied that the information of the housing needs demand assessment referred to by the Minister has adequate detail and specificity...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. I have made my point. I want to be certain that we are going to gather the information necessary to properly assess the needs and meet them in the strategy. We had a discussion on undue segregation because I had a related amendment earlier, but I wish to refresh the Minister's memory. "Undue segregation" is stated. There is no due segregation; segregation is wrong. It is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Andrews is right. By the way, this is coming up as well in the tenant in situ scheme, which is relevant to this. There are a number of people facing eviction in Dalkey at the moment. We looked at the council stepping in for a tenant in situ and the council said no. It did not say this explicitly, but more or less it said, "We are not buying them because they are in Dalkey."

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure they were higher because they were in Dalkey, but they were not anything special as apartments. Believe it or not, Dalkey was a predominantly working-class town once upon a time. Working-class people have been steadily pushed out of there, and that is bad because it is leading to overall segregation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because we asked the Minister to bring it in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hear the Minister and hear where he is coming from but, respectfully, I disagree because this is about the housing strategy, and tenant in situ will be part of the housing strategy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is currently part of the housing strategy, and part of the housing strategy, as proposed here, is to counteract and prevent "undue" segregation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I am just saying it, and I do think, for the record, and for the Minister's consideration, that if we are trying to counteract segregation, the issue of off-site allocations or whatever of Part V, now to be Part VII, is a problem. It also happened in Foxrock recently, now that I think about it. That is reinforcing rather than counteracting segregation. The Minister should take that...