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Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the most recent Central Statistics Office report stated that in the past year house prices have continued to skyrocket, rising by more than 7 per cent Statewide; — across the State, first-time buyers now face an average price of €400,000 to buy a new-build home; — the rate of home ownership has fallen to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question is for Ms Neary or Mr. Kelly, whoever is most appropriate. In terms of the explicit powers for the Minister to prevent a building from being used, it might be useful to articulate that to the committee in summary form. My second question concerns the following: "The amendments also provide a legal remedy for the uncommon situation whereby works have commenced or been completed...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 954: In page 441, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: Judicial review of applications, appeals, referrals and other matters 250. (1) Where a question of law arises on any matter with which the Board is concerned, the Board may refer the question to the High Court for decision. (2) A person shall not question the validity of any decision made or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The question has still not been answered so I will ask it again. No one on this side is misrepresenting the consultation process. We are merely saying what we were told by the people involved in the process during pre-legislative scrutiny. I urge the Minister of State to go back and read the transcripts or even ask his officials to give him a summary during the break. In fact, during PLS,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...in the Chamber and in the committee, it has never been lack of imagination, but there is always a first time. Imagination is not what we are looking for; we are looking for reforms that will work and will improve our planning system. That is the issue at hand here. The Minister of State has said that the status quo is not sustainable. That means that if this legislation had been in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will get to that. That was the second point the Minister of State made. It is interesting that the Government now says it does not anticipate any reduction in the number of judicial reviews. In some sense, that tallies with the legal opinions received by this committee that the Bill is likely to increase the number. The Minister of State spoke about quicker processing times. I will...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are trying to get maximum clarity around the two core pillars of the cost regime that the Bill proposes. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, earlier gave an outline of what is happening in the interdepartmental groups and when the Minister and his Department is meant to report back. The real question many of us have is that there has been a degree of certainty provided by the Heather...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If you think about it, we have been in the basement for approximately 120 hours. There have been more than 1,000 amendments and 500 sections. Like the Minister and Chair, I want to first thank all the secretariat and Oireachtas staff. I thank the ushers who carried the Minister’s boxes in and out of the rooms outside, the broadcast staff, the transcription staff and the Bills Office...

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) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a further question on these three amendments. With regard to the transitional arrangements, obviously the existing provision of "substantial works" will be gone if and when this Bill is enacted. What kind of transitional arrangement will there be? Will the existing provisions continue until such time as this new, not necessarily very clear, provision is enacted or what will the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...he was aware of them. The Minister was quite definitive. At one point, he stated that his understanding was that there had been no decision made solely on the basis of those grounds. He referred to how he was trying to future-proof our planning legislation. I have a full copy of the letter that the Attorney General sent not only to the Minister but also to other figures in government...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...ago in my constituency for which planning permission was granted, and construction and purchase happened, after the economic crash. As part of the condition of planning permission, a developer was to provide a temporary access road. A bond was provided for that. There was also a road opening required for wastewater connections from the main road and a bond was provided for that. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...two, three or maybe four years and they moved in within the five-year time period for the planning. If the Minister of State's answer is that Circular PL 11/13 is fixing the problem, I can bring him to a row of residential homes where that has not made the blindest bit of difference. They are experiencing the same problems as those Celtic tiger-era legacy cases. For me, there are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to existing energy infrastructure, whether it is seeking extension or repowering, these are just some of the questions that industry representatives have raised with us. There are issues around not only the cost of seeking to extend but also the timing of it, particularly if there are delays in the decision-making process. Will the Minister provide us with a little more detail...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My colleague Deputy Gould has been too generous. The precise function of these sections of the Bill is to further weaken and undermine the role of local government - not just the elected members but also the executive. As Deputy O'Callaghan has said, there is no way of reading these sections other than interpreting them as taking a system which is already heavily centralised - one of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...clarification. At this stage, I will indicate that there are a couple of sections coming up next on which a small amount of discussion would be useful. I say that because we are now getting into Chapter 6, which deals with the urban area plans, priority area plans and co-ordinated area plans. These are very important innovations of the Bill. They got far less scrutiny during...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am saying this in defence of the use of the language, so the Minister of State might bear with me. I do not read that as the Government trying to plan population growth. Population growth projections are provided but what the national planning framework does is try to say where that should go because we do not want over-concentration of population growth in Dublin and the GDA and it has...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...give a bit of background because this issue has become a bit of a hobby-horse of mine. There is a widespread view in political and media circles that monotenure housing - having large numbers of working-class people living in the same place - is not good housing policy. At its worst end, we hear people talk about monotenure housing as inevitably producing ghettos and social problems. It...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make the point so we are very clear. I will take every additional social and affordable housing unit that can be provided. I would make two points on Part V. Part V should be in addition to large volumes of local authority social housing and affordable housing output. When Part V was introduced, that is not what it was. It was instead of that because the State had dramatically...