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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "which Ireland is now facing": "; and calls on the Government to introduce legislation to allow for the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing as defined in Parts 2 and 3 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.". We are in the middle of a housing disaster. We have record levels of...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...that. I support amendment No. 892. It is an excellent amendment. There is a huge amount that can be done in the area of community-led housing organisations, housing co-operatives and community land trusts. I do not think anybody is suggesting that all housing supply will come from this, but it could be a hugely valuable part of housing supply. It has the advantages Deputy Duffy...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...compact growth not to have the tenure choice in home ownership. Since Independence, the State has invested massively into home ownership, in breaking up larger holdings and the redistribution of land. Huge resources went into that. We achieved 80% home ownership levels and now we have the lowest level of home ownership in more than 50 years. We need to do something about treating...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the needs of families, individuals and communities? Should that not come first in planning, rather than being trumped by the needs of institutional investors? A huge part of public policy in Ireland is investment by governments from the 1920s onwards. You can debate whether this was the right or wrong place to put investment, but a vast amount of public resources went into land...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On viability, not only does Part V assist with viability by putting downward pressure on land prices, it also helps with the viability of projects in terms of there being a certain percentage of guaranteed sales that the developer knows it will get. That helps with financing of the project and its entire viability because the developer is guaranteed 20% upfront sales. That helps developers...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...used, because it is rarely used now, as the Minister of State will know. The CPO powers in this section, which are similar to those in the existing legislation, allow local authorities to buy up land needed for housing. This is good. The problem is this power is not being used. What I am seeking to ensure, therefore, is that it is used. I am not seeking to have people's lands acquired...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...hope of the speed of it. I wish to make one final point. I will use my constituency as an example. Much of the housing in my constituency was built because the local authority compulsorily purchased the land. It identified the housing need. The State put in the infrastructure. The northern sewerage system was installed in the 1950s and Dublin Corporation, as it was, compulsorily...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...in the legislation that could be used and having housing strategies that clearly identify the need for the housing, there will be an obligation on a local authority to figure out the amount of land it would need to give effect to its housing strategy and give timelines and targets for acquiring the land. We agreed on the first half. If we could agree on the second half, we could go a...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will look at amendment No. 919 first. Let us take that first. What is the reason and rationale for the exemption from Part V of housing on sites of land of 0.1 ha or less? Before there was more compact development, I can understand where one might have looked at that type of site and thought they could only get one or two-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: My amendment No. 910 relates to page 405 of the Bill 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.”." Subsection (10) is about the housing strategy and providing that there is a general policy about the tenure mix and provisions around affordable housing as...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...a housing strategy that states we need to provide thousands of affordable homes to meet a housing need in a local authority area, why not then have an affordable housing zoning to ensure sufficient land is available for affordable homes? If we are not going to oblige the local authority to dissemble land at affordable prices for affordable housing, as my previous amendment sought to do,...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., 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 build out affordable housing. They meet their...

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. 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. 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: I thank the Chair. Amendment No. 906 is standalone, and inserts, on page 405, the following wording: 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) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...been clogging up the system and drawing down resources. It is deeply unfair on the planning system to be dealing with speculative applications by someone with the intention of increasing the value of their land with a planning permission but who does not have an intention to build out. They are not bearing the full cost of that in planning fees and that is an issue. Has public...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...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 affordable prices for affordable homes. In the middle of a housing crisis and an affordability crisis, how can the Minister of State possibly stand with land...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...way we will get 50,000 homes every year is to make housing more affordable. One of the ways we can do that is with a measure such as introducing affordable housing zoning to reduce the price of land and the cost of housing. Will the Government introduce affordable housing zoning?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...and Development Bill so that there would be national legislation to back it up, the Government voted it down. Affordable housing zoning could be used to designate, for example, agricultural land when it becomes available for housing in order that it would be predominantly for affordable housing. It would stop windfall profits for land speculators and make housing more affordable. How...