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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: ...for social housing in that the person has been living in the area for a certain period, he or she works a certain distance from the area and his or her children are in school. Habitual and long-term residency are not the same thing. Habitual residency is where my centre of interest is currently. There is no test for anybody applying for social housing as to what their long-term...

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: ...to get a social house, whether this is really about HAP eligibility. Is there somebody somewhere who thinks that there is a group of people who get HAP and who are not really interested in getting long-term social housing? Is it being suggested that they are the people we want to exclude from the system?

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: ...to some of these matters in the next round. In the meantime, I have another question. The Department is introducing the concept of future intentions. While social housing support is ultimately long term, there is currently no way of assessing, when somebody applies for social housing, what their long-term intentions are. In some senses, people's long-term intentions will in part be...

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: ...does not proceed. Am I right in my reading of the criteria set out here that if one is an EU or EEA citizen, with lawful and habitual residency, then after three months one would satisfy the long-term interest but for non-EEA citizens it is a five-year period of, as it says, "reckonable residency"? Am I right to read the criteria as saying that there is a "reckonable residency" of...

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: Under new section 20A(3), I could have a legal right to long term reside in the State but I would not have a five-year reckonable residency. Therefore, even though I have a legal right to reside long term, and it is my intention to remain here, I could be deemed to fall foul of the reckonable residency requirement of five years.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I think we are in for a long afternoon. We are told there is an ongoing review of the judicial review process in another Department, yet profound changes to the judicial review regime are being introduced in this Bill. That seems to me to make no sense whatsoever. Generally, we are told the reason we cannot have legislative reform, for example yesterday on compulsory purchase orders, CPOs,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...based. We had to fight to get it by threatening an FOI application. We eventually got the evidence in the form of a spreadsheet showing a set number of large-scale planning applications and how long they were in preplanning, planning, further information and appeals. When we saw the actual evidence, it did not support SHD and we made that case at the time. We argued for statutory...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...we get to them. However, the more basic point is that the Minister of State is coming to us, a bit like the last discussion, saying this is going to speed things up but we should not ask by how long because he does not know as there is no analysis. Here we are again, saying this is going to be much better, with greater levels of cost protection, but just do not ask the Minister of State...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We will see about that. For a long time it was virtually unheard of for residents' associations to take judicial reviews on residential developments. It was literally exceptionally rare. The surge of judicial reviews that took place a number of years ago has now significantly dissipated. There are fewer and fewer judicial reviews being taken by residents' associations, so I am trying to...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: .... 1144: In page 648, line 25, after “fees” to insert “on a full cost recovery basis”. This is my final amendment and is the last chance for the Minister to be generous in this eight-week long saga.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...it stands, unfortunately, I do not share the Minister’s view of the legislation and will continue this debate when it gets to Report and Final Stages and when it goes before the Seanad. It has a very long way to go before it meets the objectives the Minister set at the outset of this process.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...do not know what the overall housing needs of the population in a functional area are. They might have a sense of the macro-target that is imposed by the Department centrally - we have had long debates as to why the current targets are too low, a point which, thankfully, even the Taoiseach now accepts - but also when those targets are revised, there will be a time lag of at least two...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: .... Over time, one of the good values of Part V is that it moderates land values. If the Government were to increase, whether through a mandatory minimum or up to Part V to 25% or 30%, over the medium to long term it would make projects more viable. The other interesting thing is that increasingly developers are proactively looking to sell at least 30% of developments to local...

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) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...from a local authority, those involved would have said stated that one of the things required is some method of tracking developers through DACs. The Law Reform Commission recommend this as long ago as 1977. It is not as if it is a new issue. My other questions relate to section 160(6), (7) and (8). This is a query rather than a challenge. There is no provision in this section for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., Deputy Higgins, is replaced. I congratulate her on what appears to be her official appointment. She is a constituency colleague from Dublin Mid-West and I have worked with her on issues for a very long time. Section 99 relates to persons who are eligible to appeal the decision of a planning authority. This cluster of amendments relates to section 99(2)(b)(i) to (v). For clarity,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We had a long discussion about this amendment. Since then, significant new information that is materially relevant to the amendment and the section has come into the public domain. I do not know about others, but I would like an opportunity to discuss that information before we take a vote on the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...from many industry organisations suggesting proposed amendments. That is entirely legitimate and appropriate. The Construction Industry Federation and Irish Home Builders Association made a long list of proposed amendments and gave them to all members of the committee. This was not one of the issues that the industry representatives raised. We know from the story in The Ditch that the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a little bit more detail about this case is because it is current. This is not a matter of Celtic tiger-era developers that went bust during the crash and then receivers took over and there were long, protracted battles between receivers, residents and the council. This is still happening today. We received a report recently from South Dublin County Council on all the outstanding taking...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...-in-charge process and access issues in respect of the bond do not provide a mechanism to allow officials and residents to meet, discuss matters and agree a way forward. It is not only the case that it takes a long time for these issues to be addressed, residents also have to go to elected representatives, including me, Deputy O'Callaghan and others. We have to cajole, convince and,...