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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: 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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Ó Broin has set out the case and, while he was not here, I was defending his amendment for similar reasons. He has elaborated more. One other example, and I do not know if it is covered by Deputy Ó Broin's amendment, though it is in the same territory, strikes me because it is such a big, strategically important site. At the moment, it would seem that, on planning grounds,...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not spoken to amendment No. 907 yet. Should I do that now?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know, and I will try to get back for 6 p.m., but that is not guaranteed.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to get back for 6 p.m., but I may be under pressure.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I will speak briefly to Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 909. I sympathise with what he is trying to do. This is particularly about dealing with the problem of institutional investors - vulture funds, cuckoos or whatever - buying up everything. That is a problem. One thing Deputy O'Callaghan might consider - I am not sure of the answer - is that I am also in favour of, and have in...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very good, I wanted to clarify that. My amendment No. 907 would nicely dovetail with Deputy O'Callaghan's because the net result would be that we would get rid of vulture and cuckoo funds. My amendment proposes that the Part VII requirement, which used to be Part V, would not be 20% but 50% of social and affordable. My amendment proposes that, "In page 405... subject to subsection (12), a...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, on this but would like to hear the Government's response or some kind of response. Amendment No. 913 proposes a minimum requirement of 20% social housing and 30%, on top of that, social and affordable housing in all developments. We propose the Part V social and affordable obligation, which is 10% social and 10% affordable, goes up to 50%,...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment would make it an obligation. The Minister of State is saying that local authorities or the LDA higher can go higher; I am saying they must. The amendment would make it a requirement that they go higher and that it goes up to 50%. It is interesting the constitutional issue has raised its head in this debate. One of the demands of Raise the Roof, which has been a...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever way you want to put it.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: At 4 p.m.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in terms of the housing need of the area.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to bear with me. There is a reason that is put in there, and it is a good reason, namely that segregation is not good. For years and years, planners and all sorts of people have been saying we have to deal with segregation and we need a more socially and environmentally sustainable form of planning and development that does not lead to segregation. That is why this is...