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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This has been an issue of quite significant discussion, both at PLS and subsequently. It is an issue on which I am still completely unclear as to why the changes that are in the Bill have been made. Probably one of the strongest contributions we heard on this, both during the prelegislative scrutiny and more recently, was from the Irish Planning Institute. It officially reiterated its...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...critical of the consultation process that the Minister outlined. In fact, one of the comments they made was that there was an enormous difference between what was discussed at the planning forum and the actual content of the Bill when it was published in draft form last year. They indicated that there was significant surprise with regard to certain sections, including this one, and that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to amendments Nos. 13, 18 and 22, I suspect the Senators who the Minister of State discussed these matters with will probably be less than satisfied with his propositions, but given that they have to go back to the Seanad I will let the Minister of State fight that out with them at a later Stage. I am keen to hear, very briefly, the Minister of State's response to my amendment...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that section 6 does not guarantee what the Minister has outlined. Section 6 would allow for that, but also allow for other options. That is our concern. I refer to the unanimously agreed committee pre-legislative scrutiny report. While our preference is for a reformed panel system, recommendation 10 in our report states that, should the legislation proceed with the...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputies know, the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse. Some 130,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists, many waiting on average ten years before they have the chance of a permanent home. Over 6,000 people are sleeping in emergency accommodation tonight, as the Minister knows, over 2,000 of whom are children. These figures do not include the large...