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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations for consideration by the planning authority to ensure compliance with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development.”. I want to make a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I briefly comment?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise to the Minister. I meant to say this on section 2. At some point during the Minister's responses to any of the clusters of amendments or the sections, it would be only right if he was able to give us any additional detail he has about the amendments he is intending to submit in the Seanad, that is, both the additional transitional amendments as well as the so-called permitted...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. When Deputy Darragh O'Brien was the Minister for housing and he launched a once-in-a-generation review on consolidation of the planning and development Acts, one of his main arguments was that the 2000 Act had been amended so many times that the legislation was unwieldy, too difficult to understand and overly complex...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Be careful what you wish for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly what the Minister and his colleagues in Cabinet have done today. For the third time, a Minister from a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael Government has brought forward regulations to undermine and reduce standards in apartments. I read this document earlier today. People need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would appreciate it if the Minister stuck to the question I asked. We have three minutes. It is a very short amount of time. Can he explain how he will achieve a saving of €50,000 to €100,000. It is a simple question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the only question I asked. I have asked one question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not need context. I would like the Minister not to talk down the clock-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----but, rather, to answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, I do not. This is questions to the Minister.