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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...done, were obviously based in part on the housing need and demand assessment. There was the ESRI study of 2019 and then the Department's HNDA exercise with its local authority targets set below that. What individual planning authorities then attempted to do, inasmuch as the HNDA allowed them to do it, was to try to apply as much of the granular detail as they could in the development of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am saying this in defence of the use of the language, so the Minister of State might bear with me. I do not read that as the Government trying to plan population growth. Population growth projections are provided but what the national planning framework does is try to say where that should go because we do not want over-concentration of population growth in Dublin and the GDA and it has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. For absolute clarity, and it may help the Minister of State's officials at some later stage, the issue is that it is simply not appropriate - the OPR has made this case and I do not disagree - to have a blanket rule that a percentage of a development has to be X, Y or Z. That cannot be done. However, granular data on need could be built into the consent process that would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just wish to say they are welcome. I am sure the Minister of State and his officials are aware, this committee held hearings and published a report in 2022 when we looked at this. I have two or three questions on this. This refers to "derelict land or sites". For clarity, does "sites" include property and not only refer to unused land? That would be helpful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Second, when we considered this matter in the committee, we heard a really good presentation from an academic in UCD who spoke at length about the Scottish model. The reason I raise this is that two things they seem to do particularly well in Scotland are that they not only have an accurate database of the number of vacant properties, but they also have a very good categorisation system so...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are all looking at it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the important recommendations our committee made to the Minister was the idea of creating a single national platform to integrate, compile and effectively organise existing and future data on vacancy and dereliction. The challenge at the moment is that some local authorities have decent data sets and some do not. There is no consistency. When the Minister of State gives the update,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for spotting such an important issue that I simply had not spotted in these two sections. I will give a bit of background because this issue has become a bit of a hobby-horse of mine. There is a widespread view in political and media circles that monotenure housing - having large numbers of working-class people living in the same place - is not good housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make the point so we are very clear. I will take every additional social and affordable housing unit that can be provided. I would make two points on Part V. Part V should be in addition to large volumes of local authority social housing and affordable housing output. When Part V was introduced, that is not what it was. It was instead of that because the State had dramatically...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak briefly to the first group of the Minister of State's and then, depending on the replies, not unlike Deputy O'Callaghan, I might want to spend a little more time on individual amendments. Amendment No. 399 is very straightforward. It is to ensure that public access to heritage be within the remit of the conservation strategy. That is the relevant section to which the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out into the impact of the cessation of child developmental checks under the national healthy childhood programme for children in areas of Dublin mid-west (details supplied) due to staff shortages in the public health nurse service; if so, if the report will be made available; and if not, if a review will be considered at the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the Minister of State's response to amendments Nos. 401 and 402, if adding further complexity to the planning process was a reason to not put something in the Bill, very large sections of this Bill would not see the light of day given the very significant level of complexity they are adding to the system, whether one can say that is a good idea or not. I therefore just do not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the regulations the Minister of State spoke of, will there be one set of prescribed bodies with some catch-all caveat the OPR can dip into or will there be separate lists depending on the category of issue at hand? The second version could be one set of regulations that say, "For these types of issues, here are the organisations we definitely want you to consult and if you want to include...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. In that case, let us tease out the issue of a possible conflict of interest, because I believe that is what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan is getting at and because it is quite important. Let us use a real, live case.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the number of staff employed at each grade; and to outline the average wage and entry wage for each grade, in tabular form. [12301/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us say a local authority has something in its development plan that the regulator decides in good faith is in contravention with a national planning policy statement, on foot of which decision a draft direction is issued. That draft direction would be sent out for consultation. If some of the bodies in the consultation take views contrary to that of the planning regulator, the latter...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to bear with me for a second. I know he is eager to answer the question I am asking, but he should at least let me ask it. When we talk about compliance, there are two aspects involved. One is that the spatial and economic strategy has to be physically altered. The text of it has to be altered and published. Compliance can also mean decisions arising out of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Correct me if I am wrong, but in the context of amendment No. 715, we have a situation where the only hard-and-fast statutory timelines in our planning process, outside of LRD, are those that local authorities have to apply. We are introducing - and we will get into the detail of the timelines when we get to the relevant sections - statutory timelines for all different phases of the process....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so I am clear, that was not my question. Given that the Minister of State said at the start that in the main, these four amendments are really a provision for the planning authority-----