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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On that, in my experience, I have seen a number of developers operating that way, whereby at any one time they have between 40 and 50 different companies on the go and they use a different one for each planning application, which means accountability is a real issue if something goes wrong. I would be very interested to hear the answer to that question. I have one short question on this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Could we get a short note on this section of the Bill and whether it has been used? It is important to know whether the provision has ever been used in terms of understanding this legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, I do not have a question on section 163.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A key provision of this section is that there will be a phasing plan for developments consisting of ten housing units or more. Will the Minister of State give some indication of what a phasing plan for a relatively small development of, say, 15 or 20 houses might look like?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will I clarify the question?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sorry, I should clarify the question a bit. If there are 400 apartments built over five blocks, it is quite clear what the phasing plan might be. It might be that block 1 is in phase 1 or it might be in phase 2 and some parkland and open space in phase 1. Phase 2 could be blocks 3 and 4 and some more amenities. Block 5 might be the next phase and so on. It is clear what a phasing plan...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The schedule of works for scheme housing, even if it is only ten or 15 houses, is important in terms of when public areas, roads, footpaths, open spaces and so on will be completed. The scheduling of works is an important component that comes out from the phasing plan. I thank the Minister of State for that answer. Second, does section 165 allow a planning authority to insist on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to further explain my question. What can happen with phasing in larger schemes - unfortunately we have all seen examples of this - is that phase one could involve 200 apartments, phase two could involve another 200 apartments and phase three could include another 100 apartments as well as a community facility that is promised to serve the entire development and some open space...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sorry, where is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not specific to phasing plans but it applies to phasing plans, so that is where they could do this or how they could do it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for that reply, which is helpful. Would it not be better to make this a bit more explicit in the phasing plan section in order that it is clear that the planning authority or commission can reorder the phasing if that is desirable? A key weakness of phasing currently is that we get all of the really good community stuff in the last phase, but sometimes that is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it is really about the fact that the phasing plan comes entirely from the applicant. I totally understand that a draft phasing plan would come from the applicant but my concern is about explicitly giving the planning authority or commission the ability to intervene and put a better order on the phasing. This is a really useful mechanism. I have given an example already, although...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is on the conditions that may be attached to planning permission. Can the sequencing of works tie in with phasing?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: For the record, I believe it would be better to include it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the previous election, the Minister of State's party, the Green Party, talked about the Vienna model of housing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It even got a reference to the Vienna model of housing into the programme for Government.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Vienna is ranked as the most liveable city in the world. A person can rent a new-build two-bed affordable apartment in Vienna for €627 per month. In Dublin, the equivalent is €1,400 per month. How do they achieve this in Vienna? One of the ways and one of the tools they use is affordable housing zoning, which ensures that a continuous supply of land is available at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We did so because the Government did not have these measures in it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the introduction of a specific zoning for affordable housing will be considered by this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15883/24]