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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions on the section.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions. The first is about section 169(2). It is a broad set of regulatory provisions. Is that just a crossover from the existing legislation or is there anything new there? With respect to 169(2)(i) and (ii), it is interesting that it talks about providing for the waiving or reduction of a fee to which subparagraph (i) refers-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It is at the very top of page 309. It talks about waiving or reducing fees. We had a very interesting discussion yesterday, particularly about waivers.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that could be used in the context of waivers to ensure people on lower incomes, for example, would be able to participate and there would not be a bar. Is it for some other kind of waiver? Will the Minister just explain it?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Are any waivers currently in place or is it just a provision that has been there before?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: More specifically, section 169(2) is a list of all the various areas where regulations can be introduced in relation to the previous section. Is there anything specifically new in here?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It looks like it is all a carryover.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the legislation. There seems to be very little change, if any, in this section and Part of the Bill compared with what was there previously. If I am wrong, I ask the Minister of State to correct me, but it seems to be broadly a transposition. I am speaking specifically to amendment No. 895 but this is also supportive of the points Deputy O'Callaghan has...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am reading the definition of "house" on page 30 to try to cast my mind back. I will go back to my principal point and then follow up on Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 897. I apologise for forcing the Minister of State to repeat himself a bit but I want to emphasise the point around the HNDA because this is a really significant thing. Section 219(4)(a) states that a housing strategy...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am speaking to my amendment and I have a right to do so.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am the only sponsor of this amendment. It is not co-sponsored. I have spoken to it once. I will speak to it a second time and then I-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We can have a row if you want-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Then you are wasting the committee's time by not letting me speak and raise the question with the Minister of State.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am the sponsor of the amendment. I raised issues with the Minister of State and he has responded. All I am asking is to be able to respond to those once-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be very brief-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----but if you had not intervened, I would have been finished by now. I have never wasted time in this committee and have always been as brief as I can but I wish to demonstrate the point to the Minister of State because it is fundamental to this Bill. Do I have the floor?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will do that but you have wasted a few minutes already in your attempt to-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and appreciate his generosity. The first thing is that most local authorities do not have a data set to allow them to make the assessment of the overall housing need. Looking at section 219(5), it refers to the national planning framework but that provides no granular data whatsoever. It talks about the summary of social housing needs assessments but that only includes...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a general point and then a question in support of Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment. Last year, the total number of new-build apartments delivered was approximately 11,000, according to the CSO completion data. Through analysis of stamp duty transactions, the total number of apartments purchased is approximately 800. There is clearly an issue here. As Deputy O'Callaghan has said, the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a very selective set of quotations from the court judgment. It is one of the only court judgments we have had looking at the issue of property rights and how they interact with the State’s policy attempts to meet housing need. It is also an incredibly progressive decision. One of the points that Dr. Rachael Walsh, one of the country’s leading constitutional law experts,...