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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It looks like it is all a carryover.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the legislation. There seems to be very little change, if any, in this section and Part of the Bill compared with what was there previously. If I am wrong, I ask the Minister of State to correct me, but it seems to be broadly a transposition. I am speaking specifically to amendment No. 895 but this is also supportive of the points Deputy O'Callaghan has...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am reading the definition of "house" on page 30 to try to cast my mind back. I will go back to my principal point and then follow up on Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 897. I apologise for forcing the Minister of State to repeat himself a bit but I want to emphasise the point around the HNDA because this is a really significant thing. Section 219(4)(a) states that a housing strategy...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am speaking to my amendment and I have a right to do so.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am the only sponsor of this amendment. It is not co-sponsored. I have spoken to it once. I will speak to it a second time and then I-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We can have a row if you want-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Then you are wasting the committee's time by not letting me speak and raise the question with the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am the sponsor of the amendment. I raised issues with the Minister of State and he has responded. All I am asking is to be able to respond to those once-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will be very brief-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----but if you had not intervened, I would have been finished by now. I have never wasted time in this committee and have always been as brief as I can but I wish to demonstrate the point to the Minister of State because it is fundamental to this Bill. Do I have the floor?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will do that but you have wasted a few minutes already in your attempt to-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and appreciate his generosity. The first thing is that most local authorities do not have a data set to allow them to make the assessment of the overall housing need. Looking at section 219(5), it refers to the national planning framework but that provides no granular data whatsoever. It talks about the summary of social housing needs assessments but that only includes...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a general point and then a question in support of Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment. Last year, the total number of new-build apartments delivered was approximately 11,000, according to the CSO completion data. Through analysis of stamp duty transactions, the total number of apartments purchased is approximately 800. There is clearly an issue here. As Deputy O'Callaghan has said, the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is a very selective set of quotations from the court judgment. It is one of the only court judgments we have had looking at the issue of property rights and how they interact with the State’s policy attempts to meet housing need. It is also an incredibly progressive decision. One of the points that Dr. Rachael Walsh, one of the country’s leading constitutional law experts,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It was referred by the President to the Council of State with that in mind. It is the same thing but, yes, the Minister of State is correct.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: But only on public land. If it acquires private land, it has a flexibility in that regard. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: May I speak briefly to Nos. 902 and 904?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Without repeating the extensive debate we had previously, I assume in the Minister of State's response we are going to be told that these are matters for building control rather than for the housing strategy. All I would say to the Minister of State, and through him to his officials, is that at some point this is going to have to happen. At some point, if we are to meet our embodied carbon...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will make three very short points. First, CPO does not work insofar as it takes too long and is too expensive. There is no legal or constitutional reason compensation should require market value, especially when there is such a gap between the existing-use value and the market value. One of the reasons our local authorities are less likely to CPO land for housing is that it is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect after the local elections, but that is another day's argument.