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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 24: After subsection (1), to insert the following: "(1A) The holder of a permission shall notify the public of the application by way of a site notice. (1B) In order to ensure adherence with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development the relevant authority shall provide for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is going to go down in history for having introduced a new principle of economics. It is called shrinkflation. It is the idea you can reduce the price of something by reducing the size of something. We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The price of milk has gone up almost 14% in the last year. Imagine a milk producer said people should not worry because producers...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and the Minister. The Minister has now been in office for over six months and in my opinion, he has made some spectacularly bad policy decisions. The first, of course, was slashing funding for vital homeless prevention schemes like the tenant in situ scheme, Housing First and CAS acquisitions. The second was emasculating a very good suggestion from...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the dates on which the Energy Poverty Steering Group which was established under the Energy Poverty Action Plan from 2022 has met, in tabular form. [38395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the annual report on the Energy Poverty Action Plan for 2024 will be submitted to Government and published. [38396/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (10 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has had any engagement with the European Commission regarding the adequacy decision granted to the State of Israel under Article 45 of Regulation 2016/679; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (10 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm receipt of correspondence from a childcare provider in Dublin mid-west (details supplied); if she is aware of the issue outlined by the childcare provider; if the matter is being investigated with a view to ensuring a comprehensive reply and route of resolution is provided to the provider; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (10 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 306. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options, if any, for parents who cannot secure a childcare placement in their locality and surrounds but require childcare in order to remain employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38530/25]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: "Report on impact of Judicial Reviews 18. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the impact of Judicial Reviews on development including, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, public transport and residential development and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 19: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: "Report on compliance 18. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the compliance of all sections of this Act with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive.".

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(b) an explanation as to why the development has not yet commenced, a viability assessment setting out what has changed that would allow the development to commence if an extension of duration is granted, and a detailed schedule of works setting out when the various stages of development will...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 14: "In page 13, line 25, to delete “18 months” and substitute “6 months”."

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 15: In page 13, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(h) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations to the planning authority on any request for an extension of duration under this section. The regulations may include provision for: (i) the publication of public notices, on site, in newspapers and on digital...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on planning permissions and residential units 18. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report detailing the number of planning permissions and residential units to which section 14 of this Act may apply and making...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no enforcement of commencements. I understand the Minister's officials in the Department are liaising with local authorities with respect to determining whether developments that are availing of the development levy waiver and the water utility connection waiver are having a look at this. Local authorities do planning enforcement, but many do not even have the staff to do building...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on extensions 18. Every six months after the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the operation of the extension of duration detailing the number of developments that have availed of the extensions, the number of units granted extension that...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to my two amendments in this grouping. I said at the outset that we are not opposed in principle to a time-limited extension of duration. The challenge, however, is that there is no point giving somebody an extension of duration if they cannot demonstrate that something has changed and that what was previously unviable is now viable. I therefore think there needs to be some...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept the technical explanation but would just make one point. I ask the Minister to examine the principle behind this amendment and to discuss it with the Minister for justice and also, in the course of his work as Minister for housing, with the relevant members of the Judiciary. We need to fix this bit of the system too. There is little value in having statutory timelines for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, in consultation with the Minister for Justice and with the approval of Cabinet, introduce regulations to place High Court good practice guidelines on a statutory footing in order to have legally binding statutory timelines for the hearing of Judicial Reviews and for the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is precisely the problem. If this change to planning legislation had been included in the Planning and Development Act which we spent two years passing through the House, as a committee we could have asked, for example, planning law experts, professional planners and legal experts who specialise in Aarhus Convention compliance their views on this. One of the points I made on Second...