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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (16 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The preparation of legislation to improve the management of flood risk on the River Shannon is a Government priority. The River Shannon Management Body Bill is on the priority legislation list for drafting for Summer 2024. The main purpose of the Bill is to improve flood risk management for the River Shannon catchment. As the deputy is aware, the management of flood risk on the river is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Especially in Gaelic football.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (9 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 608, 621, 622 and 693 together. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities to support the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, which support older and disabled people living in private houses to adapt their home to meet their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (9 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Local Authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in their functional areas. The derelict sites returns are usually collected in Q2 of the following year. However, in recent years this has been brought forward. My Department recently issued Circular Letter PL 01/2024 requesting the submission of...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: There are quite a number of amendments in this grouping. Will I deal with all of the amendments together or does the Chair want me to deal with that one on its own?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I will try to accommodate the committee. I will deal with amendment No. 353 on its own first. The amendment seeks to amend section 44(1), which requires that the housing strategy must distribute planned population and housing growth within the area. The amendment seeks to clarify that this distribution should be based on demographic projections, including average household size. While...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It was only a partial response.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: We will arrange that. It was an inadvertent-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I know the import of what the Deputies put forward. We believe it is catered for under section 44 and, more particularly, section 219, and will be covered under housing growth. Section 219(5) states, "A housing strategy shall take into account", and then references the need and the likely future need for housing, existing need, the need to ensure a mixture of housing, and the need to...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 44 deals with this in an overall planning sense. Section 219 is what we would now know as Part V. It is how you would practically do a housing strategy. Section 44 is basically looking at the overall development area in a planning and spatial strategy sense. By way of example, section 44(3) states: The housing development strategy shall include: (a) population and housing...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I am trying to be helpful. Section 44(2) states: “A housing development strategy prepared under subsection (1) shall be materially consistent with the housing strategy prepared under section 219.” They both have to be consistent. Section 44 is consistent with section 219. If we look at where the development plans have put in a detailed layout for a housing development which...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I am trying to be helpful. We will come back on Report Stage following discussion with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to take out that technical point. We will look at it. I take the point the Deputy is making. From the development plans that I have seen, and given the housing strategy is very detailed, there are very few local authorities that have defined housing policies that...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It also has to take account of what the demographics are.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I am always wary when someone says so.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of sequencing, the housing strategy in section 219 will be prepared first. Obviously, that will inform. When you coming up with the overall housing development strategy, it is a spatial strategy throughout the development area. However, the core document in terms of housing is the housing strategy. That is why it is more pertinent to have it in terms of the household side. The...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: No.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: The housing strategy is around looking at our population and the needs and the housing needs demand assessment will form part of that consideration. Each local authority will go through it. They will look at what the housing strategy is overall. When they are looking at the development plan, they are looking at their geographical area within the development. They are effectively doing a...