Results 561-580 of 1,083,101 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Holly Cairns)
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: In terms of the 18-month period, how will local authorities enforce that?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: Local authorities are very experienced in enforcement.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: There is no enforcement of commencements. I understand the Minister's officials in the Department are liaising with local authorities with respect to determining whether developments that are availing of the development levy waiver and the water utility connection waiver are having a look at this. Local authorities do planning enforcement, but many do not even have the staff to do building...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: We will always keep these things under review and monitored. In relation to this, I do not see any risk of speculation. There are strict time-bound limits in there. I think those are sufficient to ensure commencements are carried out.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on extensions 18. Every six months after the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the operation of the extension of duration detailing the number of developments that have availed of the extensions, the number of units granted extension that...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Thomas Gould: I support my colleague. We are talking about increasing timelines and giving extensions. I will provide an example. The Good Shepherd Convent in Cork was originally bought by UCC to be developed for, I think, about €4.5 million. It changed hands a couple of times. At the height of the Celtic tiger it was sold for €20 million. Afterwards, it was bought by a Drogheda-based...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: Amendments Nos. 10 and 12 to 14, inclusive, seek to amend the timelines in section 16, which amends section 42 of the Act of 2000. Amendments Nos. 10 and 12 seek to provide that applications for extension of duration of uncommenced housing developments may only be made in the last year of permission remaining, rather than the last two years, as set out in the Bill. Existing planning...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister for his response. I go back to what I asked about residential zoned land tax. When will we be able to quantify whether that tax is working to prevent land speculation and hoarding? Will the Minister come back and seriously look at this again? As I understand it, EY was tasked by the Department of housing to look at the issue of uncommenced planning and that report was...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: The RZLT is resulting in more land transfers. I am very satisfied of that. It has a cumulative effect. As time goes on, we will see an increasing rate of transfers as a result of the 3% year on year. It only commenced its application this year and there is a review to be carried out each year. In relation to the amendments, I am satisfied the timelines strike the necessary balance....
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 40 of Act of 2000 16. Section 40 of the Act of 2000 is amended, in subsection (3)(b), by the substitution of “the period of three years beginning on the date of the grant of permission” for “the period of five years beginning on the date of the grant of...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
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- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 10 to 14, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 12, line 18, to delete “2 years” and substitute “1 year”. These amendments relate to the Minister's proposals to enable an extension of three years for developments that have not yet commenced and have less than two years in the permission. I proposed these amendments because, while I believe a short extension may be necessary...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to my two amendments in this grouping. I said at the outset that we are not opposed in principle to a time-limited extension of duration. The challenge, however, is that there is no point giving somebody an extension of duration if they cannot demonstrate that something has changed and that what was previously unviable is now viable. I therefore think there needs to be some...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 64; Níl, 86; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Rory Hearne and Eoin Ó Broin; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Tá Ciarán Ahern, Ivana Bacik, Cathy Bennett, John Brady, Pat Buckley, Joanna Byrne, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Ruth Coppinger, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Jen Cummins, Pa Daly, Máire Devine, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Aidan Farrelly, Mairéad Farrell, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Thomas Gould, Ann...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment declared lost.