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

Kieran O'Donnell: Well, we listen occasionally.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, the derelict sites will include buildings on those sites. As the Deputy is aware, we have a derelict sites register. We are looking at it-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----and how it is functioning. In addition, each local authority now has a vacant homes officer. The message is out there that if local authorities require further vacant homes officers or assistants, they can put in applications to the Department. They are carrying out a survey of vacant homes in their local authority areas. I do not have a full update on where that is at the moment,...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back to the Deputy on that. I want to make a very quick general observation. We want each local authority to have defined units that deal with vacancy and dereliction. Some local authorities are highly effective in that area, while some are not. We want them all to come up to standard. We have given extra resources and put in place the vacant homes officers and the town...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: We have combined amendments Nos. 370 and 381.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I will read the note with which I have been provided and I will come back to the specific points that have been raised. I turn now to amendments Nos. 370 and 381, tabled jointly by Deputies Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny. Sections 44(4)(b) and 45(4)(b) provide that both city and non-city housing strategies may indicate in respect of areas zoned for residential or mixed use...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It has great clubs and great people. It is very close knit. We learned a lot through the regeneration process. In relation to development plans, we have basically reiterated section 95(1)(d) of the 2000 Act in section 44(4)(b) so that there would be discretion. Obviously, in any community you need that mixture. You need young, old, social, affordable, private and cost rental. It is all...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: But the Deputy has said it has not worked.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Do not forget Deputy Duffy.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I take the points made on Part V. I believe Part V is a very good model. All this does is provide flexibility under section 219(10), which is the 20%. Section 219(6) on the housing strategy states it shall include an estimate of the housing for the purposes of social housing, affordable housing and cost rental. It allows the flexibility to change the mix within that 20% if desired. The...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I will address amendment No. 484, tabled by Deputy McAuliffe, which concerns section 55. It provides that the chief executive of a planning authority may recommend that the housing development strategy be adjusted and the development plan varied accordingly where he or she considers that there has been a change in the housing market that significantly affects the housing development...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I said we would look at it on Report Stage.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 364: In page 103, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(c) an analysis of vacant and derelict land or sites within the area and an estimation of the number of housing units that could be activated from the land or sites; (d) a strategy to activate vacant and derelict land or sites into housing units;”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What was the second part? Sorry, I did not get it.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of section 44(3)(b)(vi), "the number of housing units permitted under existing permissions but not yet built and the expected timeframe within which those units will be completed" is down to the local authority to decide.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.