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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...was professor of social policy in UCD at the time. Michelle Norris and Cathal O'Donnell were the research assistants. They are now both eminent professors of social policy, Professor O'Donnell in Cork and Professor Norris in UCD. The Minister of State should know about this because Moyross was included in the study, which focused on seven housing estates around Ireland. Two rounds of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope that if the Minister of State lets me finish, he will be clear. Let us take a real, live case, namely the controversy over the out-of-town retail park in Cork county. It is useful to discuss this and I am not making a judgment on either side. I realise it is not a matter of a regional spatial and economic strategy but it highlights a particular issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., they do not apply to developments like Charlestown. I know I am not allowed to get into the detail but I will mention it anyway. The same issue arises in respect of the co-ordination between Cork County Council and Cork City Council. Again, if there was a firmer requirement, we might not be in the situation where we cannot discuss that particular issue because it is before the courts....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. The Cork situation might not apply in this instance but Charlestown would, in a sense that it is conceivable that within the confines of Fingal County Council, Charlestown had a certain planning logic but in the assessment of what is proper planning with the two planning authorities contiguous, it would not be seen as such. There is nothing other than a local authority might just...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...despite the fact it was contrary to good policy? What would happen if in the run-up to an election a Minister were to decide not to issue a direction? This has not happened in the dispute between Cork City Council and Cork County Council, and I very much welcome this. This could happen, though, under the way in which this legislation has been set out. In the context of legislation,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...from inside the property. Consequently, the level of enforcement action by the local authorities was very poor. A number of local authorities, among them Dublin City Council, to be fair to it, and Cork City Council, made quite an effort at the start. They wrote to a lot of short-term letting hosts. Dublin City Council initiated some legal action and I think Cork City Council did also....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a plebiscite in 2014. However, because of a lack of clarity on what we were voting on for, people in Fingal took a different decision and the plebiscite never happened. Likewise, when the plebiscites in Cork, Waterford and Limerick took place, one of the great challenges for people in favour of a yes vote in those counties was that nobody knew what they were voting on. In fact, while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the debate there. My read is that that was probably what made the decisive difference in the outcome of the vote. For all our talk of wanting directly elected mayors, the political system in Cork, Limerick and Waterford was not ignited around the public campaign. Councillors were too busy trying to get themselves re-elected to the councils. Therefore, I think consideration also needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... I live in Clondalkin and I represent Clondalkin and Lucan. Far more homes are being built outside the M50 west and in counties Kildare and Meath than in our urban core in Dublin. If one visits Cork or Waterford city, virtually nothing new is getting built, and likewise, in the towns and villages. Notwithstanding the fact that the NPF prioritises compact growth, that is not what has...

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...be caught by an RPZ. What happened over the seven years since that legislation was introduced? RPZs have continue to expand in concentric circles out from the original designations of Dublin city and Cork city for that very reason. That is not a criticism of landlords. If you think you are going to face a cap in the future, it makes sense that you would try to increase the rent as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...target of four CPOs is one for the Dublin folks to argue about rather than those of us in the county does not seem a credible way of estimating what is a reasonable return from individual local authorities. Cork city would be the same. Even in some of the other counties, it is the towns or some of the villages where the concentration is rather than in the county.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...authorities and private developers, as well as some of us in this committee. It is interesting that HISCo was an initiative of a local authority that recognised, in conversation with developers in Cork county, there was an infrastructure blockage. They came up with a really smart and sensible solution. It is not money for free as there is a commercial return and developer has to pay....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...latest wave of eviction notices will be? With respect to the Simon Communities of Ireland, these questions might be for Mr. Stanley's service providers. I notice in the Irish Examinertoday that the Cork Simon Community is saying it has never been as bad. Can people give us a sense of how close we are to capacity in different areas? How concerned are they that the increasing level of...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... It is a scandal that a working group has spent six years preparing the new rural planning guidelines which are not yet published. Even worse, all of our local authorities, including those in Kerry, Limerick and Cork, have completed their development plan reviews without having those guidelines which creates uncertainty for planners in our local authorities, for communities as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will explain the ongoing delay in closing the purchase of affordable homes in Kilcarberry, Dunemer and Cork; and if he will confirm when these purchases will be closed and the affordable purchasers in a position to move into their homes. [13786/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...alignment, we might just be creating all sorts of other conflicts between that planning policy statement and the ten-year development plan? We could have the kind of situation we have seen in Cork county and Dublin city where legal challenges have been taken by local authorities to decisions because there are conflicts. I am trying to work out whether we are creating a new set of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently in special schools and special classes in mainstream schools; and if she will provide a breakdown by county and Dublin city and Cork city postcode. [8126/23]

Public Art Mural (Exempted Development) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...great value that good quality public art brings to us. It is a great tragedy that the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, has just left. He is an enormous fan of Asbestos, the public muralist in Cork city, although I understand from recent media coverage that the feeling is not reciprocal for the artist in question, but we will leave that for another day. One of the problems we...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...no notion of what the mayor's functions or powers would be. How can we convince the electorate, which is already sceptical of politicians in many respects, to vote for a directly-elected mayor in Cork, Waterford or Limerick if we do not tell them what the role will do? While Limerick managed to pass the referendum by the skin of its teeth, we still do not have the legislation. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...years has an affordability challenge of 551 households and there are targets set there for 1,005 units to be delivered between the local authority, LDA and AHBs. When I look at a similar table in Cork city's housing delivery action plan, given the size of the city and the constraints on cost for people who are renting or buying, there is only an affordability constraint of 1,700...