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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Seanad amendment No. 23:

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Seanad amendment agreed to.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Seanad amendment No. 24:

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 24: After subsection (1), to insert the following: "(1A) The holder of a permission shall notify the public of the application by way of a site notice. (1B) In order to ensure adherence with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development the relevant authority shall provide for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is going to go down in history for having introduced a new principle of economics. It is called shrinkflation. It is the idea you can reduce the price of something by reducing the size of something. We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The price of milk has gone up almost 14% in the last year. Imagine a milk producer said people should not worry because producers...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I appreciate the Minster's detailed response. He did not answer my questions on the consultation with the institute of planners, the architects or the Irish Wheelchair Association. It is deeply regrettable that they clearly were not consulted and there was not proper engagement with them. If there had been there would be a different outcome to this, so it is deeply regrettable. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister for his reply. A number of Ministers over a number of Governments, including from my party, have tried to do this or have done this with apartment standards. It did not work in 2015, 2016 or 2018 and it is definitely not going to work now. We need to see the LDA's evidence for how this will cut the cost of developing an apartment. Some of these apartments are going to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister made a comment earlier that this is the size of the apartments in Austria. Will people pay the same rents? The Minister might check that out for us because I can tell him they will not. If he is making a comparison he should make the whole comparison. My big worry is there is a major development going in Cork's docklands. We are looking at maybe 10,000 units. The Minister...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Deputies. Does the Minister wish to respond?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I have listened to about 40 minutes of hyperbole and lots of one-liners for social media-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Ah, come on.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

James Browne: -----being put forward and no solutions, with the exception, in fairness, of Deputy Hearne. As I have stated before, the Department of housing has asked the Department of Finance to look at a Livret A-type scheme and I have read the Deputy's proposals. There are challenges in this regard. It is not something that can be stepped up immediately but it is something we are looking at...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

James Browne: We are making radical decisions to get people out of box rooms, to get viability and to get properties built across this country. We know we have a crisis. I am treating it as an emergency. If we do not take radical measures and do so quickly, we will not get the apartments in Dublin city and across this country. That is why we are bringing forward these measures to address the issue of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: When people look back at the decisions taken by the Minister and the Government on this legislation, academics and the people who end up living in these tiny apartments will ask what was going through their minds. Who made this decision? I will give an example of how governments get it wrong. I come from Knocknaheeny. When Knocknaheeny was built 50 years ago, perhaps because of the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I am not smirking or smiling.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Grand. That is all right.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The Deputy has enough to say without making stuff up.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Mr. Lawlor continued: "We welcome meaningful, evidence-based reforms that support the accelerated, coordinated, and sustainable delivery of apartments and homes in communities across the country." The institute goes on to say: In particular, the erosion of unit mix requirements represents a market-led approach to housing that is fundamentally at odds with the significant work undertaken by...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have been deeply shocked by these regulations and these new standards the Minister is introducing. As an academic, I did research for years. One of the starting points of research, of course, is gathering evidence. Policy is supposed to be evidence-based. The evidence that has been presented to justify these decisions does not stack up. The Government has claimed it will lead to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I support the amendment tabled by my colleague Deputy Ó Broin. When I read what the IPI said, I thought it was very stark. In its usual mild-mannered way the IPI set out clearly why as professional planners they believe these changes will not work. We will end up with monolithic blocks like we had in the past and that we said we would not build anymore. These are lower quality...