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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest respect, again, that is not the circumstance I am outlining. I am talking instances where directors dissolve companies and create new ones, not where they are shadow directors of existing companies. This is not a novel issue; it is a persistent problem within our building system. Is the Minister of State categorically stating-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is he categorically stating-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest respect, this section is meant to ensure that if individuals or companies that have received planning permission breach the terms of the latter, a local authority will have the power to try to prevent them from getting planning permission in future. What I am trying to get is a very clear answer to the question as to whether this covers directors who will use a DAC,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not cover it. The only reason I raise that is because it is the most common way for a certain category of rogue developer to operate. Thankfully, such developers are small in number. However, there was a time when there was a much larger number of them. This is one of the most commonly used procedures for getting around these difficulties. I would have thought if there had been a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This seems to be the most glaring omission from the reworking of section 160. All I ask is that the matter be reconsidered by the officials. There has to be a way of tracking the individuals from company to company and ensuring that local authorities are able to apply the provisions of section 160 to individuals when they move through companies as opposed to within a company or through a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, it is agreed but with grave reservations.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In some senses, I understand the logic of the section, which is that when somebody puts in an application to a planning authority or submits an appeal and it is subject to an application for judicial review, we do not want to slow the process down so a decision on the planning application and-or the appeal can be made. Obviously, the planning application cannot be activated until the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. I said that to the Minister of State and did not need it explained back to me. The issue is very specific. For instance, I got a maritime area consent. I put in my planning application. There is a judicial review of the consent. These will be large, complex and difficult applications. We are allowing the planning authority to proceed to make a decision. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to put on the record that I am not opposing this section. However, I want to express some reservations about the risk calculus involved. It may be something I come back to on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a very quick question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And the €20 million.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So the answer is "No".

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The number of applications has been tiny and the number of purchases has been in the tens. Not a single one of the tenants affected has been transferred onto an affordable rent. The application process is too cumbersome and people do not know about the scheme. It is another of the Minister's failures. He is now telling us that none of that can change until there is change to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true, as the Minister knows.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is evading questions as usual. Off you go.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. [15607/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, there have been significant problems with the implementation of the cost rental tenant in situ scheme. There have been very small numbers of applications and even lower numbers of purchases. Of course, there is an ongoing delay with the processing and progress of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill. Can the Minister give us an update on whether he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Dillon is the fourth Minister of State since 2018 to stand up in the House and read out almost exactly the same script. It is an open secret, and this will be of value to Deputy Flaherty, that the guidelines have been ready and complete for at least two if not three Ministers of State, but for reasons of political controversy they are not being published. We will not see the...