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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain why he missed all of his affordable housing targets in 2023. [15880/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the fourth year since the Minister has taken office, he has missed all his affordable housing targets - every single one - and missed them very significantly. Of course, these targets were not sufficient in the first place. Will he explain to the House and, more importantly, to those people desperate to rent or buy homes affordably why he has missed those targets and what he will do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To say the Minister's response is Orwellian would be an understatement. Let us look at the facts. As regards his affordable purchase scheme, the only Government scheme that delivers anything close to genuinely affordable homes, he missed his target last year by 63%. As regards the cost-rental scheme, he missed his target by 59%. As regards the first home scheme, which he has lauded, he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course, the Minister is deliberately misrepresenting not only his failure to meet his own targets but also our party's policy. If people want to know Sinn Féin's policy, they can read it on the website. This is questions to the Minister. He can laugh, but the only affordable housing in my local authority last year was homes to purchase for €400,000-plus. As regards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is falling under your watch.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling under your watch.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in Poolbeg west SDZ. [15608/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the legislation for the Celtic Tiger era defective home redress scheme. [15609/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that the review of housing targets currently under way between his Department and the ERSI will explicitly include consideration of existing unmet housing demand including existing unmet demand for social, cost rental and affordable purchase homes. [15611/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 674: In page 222, to delete lines 37 to 40, and in page 223, to delete lines 1 to 11 and substitute the following: "(b) in the case of a decision of a planning authority that relates to a development in respect of which a screening determination for an appropriate assessment or an environmental impact assessment was required under Part 6, or an appropriate assessment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am. Section 99(2)(b)(v) refers to "a resolution" but does not state of what kind or how many members of the organisation have to be present. Is it just a resolution generally or is there going to be something more specific by way regulation or otherwise?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Like the Minister, the concern we have is to ensure that organisations or campaign groups that have a genuine and sincere interest in environmental matters are facilitated. We look forward to his amendments to deal with those who are hiding under the banner of alleged environmental NGOs when they are not that. Exactly as the Minister said, they seek to extort money by way of delaying, which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the text of my amendment, in the new subsection (b), we are inserting "screening determination". This is to ensure that both the determinations on screening and, separately, appropriate assessments and environmental impact assessments, would be covered by this provision. There are two issue. The first is to ensure no group that has a legitimate interest in the environmental consequences...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I know subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) in section 99 are not intended to deal with the kind of vexatious, extortionate misuse of the planning process that other amendments will deal with, in the cases that were in RTÉ's "Prime Time" programme, there would be nothing to stop people who want to use the planning process and the cover of bogus environmental NGOs from just setting up an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 675: In page 223, line 5, to delete “one year” and substitute “six months”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 677: In page 223, to delete lines 7 and 8.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Have paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of section 99(5) been transposed from the existing Act? Is there anything substantively new in section 99(5)(a), (b) and (c)? If that is the case, I ask the Minister to explain it, please.