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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will make the point that in Vienna, for example, where housing is much more affordable - affordable rental new-build two-bed apartments can be rented for approximately €620 per month - they have an affordable housing zoning. They identify land they need for affordable housing, get agricultural land on the outskirts, buy it and put an affordable housing zoning on the land and then...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will bring this to a conclusion. The answer is useful in the sense that this is where the disagreement is similar to my previous amendment about land assembly. It is not that any of these things are prohibited but that they are not happening. Actually, it seems that introducing affordable housing zoning is prohibited because there is no legislative basis for it and certain councillors...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 894: In page 403, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(e) (i) have regard to the need to protect the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 897: In page 404, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: “(f) the existing need and the likely future need, including houses, apartments and duplexes, for housing for purchase by intending owner-occupiers,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 899: In page 404, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(k) (i) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, the need to protect the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 906: In page 405, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(9) A Housing Strategy shall include— (a) an estimate of the amount of land that the local authority will need to acquire through compulsory purchase orders or other means to meet future housing needs as estimated in the housing strategy and to ensure that land is available at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 909: In page 405, after line 39, to insert the following: “(12) A housing strategy shall provide that as a general policy at least 50 per cent of any new apartment developments shall be reserved for the provision of housing for purchase by owner-occupiers. (13) Subsection (12) shall not operate to restrict any person (including a local authority) at its...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 910: In page 405, after line 39, to insert the following: “(12) Subsection (10) shall not operate to prevent the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: May I ask a question?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is only a brief one. I think Part V leasing might be covered in this section. Has the issue of Part V leasing been looked at in the Bill? Has the ability to lease been looked at at all as part of the Bill, in this section or elsewhere?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Part V traditionally was done as a purchase. A local authority would purchase. It might go to an approved housing body, but long-term leasing has increasingly been used instead of a purchase. That is still provided for, is it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Has any consideration been given to that or value for money or whether it is best practice as part of drawing up the Bill?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the Minister of State's view on it. Okay. I might return to it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 919: In page 414, to delete line 12.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 921: In page 417, after line 36 to insert the following: “(2) Notwithstanding any other enactment, it shall be lawful and permissible for Údarás na Gaeltachta to carry out the functions of an approved housing body.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why would it not be the role of the planning authority? If it is not for the planning authority to do it, who does it? Presumably it is a matter for local government.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That was the response the Cathaoirleach got. Fair enough.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is the Cathaoirleach's reading of it. I thank him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Whose function is it to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Tailte Éireann. Therefore, if a local authority identifies and maps out public rights of way, it should not have any role. Is that what the Minister of State is saying? Can a local authority not have a role in maintaining a public right of way it designates? If a local authority designates a public right of way, does it not have an obligation to maintain it?