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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Department officials for coming in. I have questions on a few different areas. What was the deadline for the revision of the NPF? Was it 28 May?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Has that deadline been missed given that we are into July?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is it to make that decision within six years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: How are embodied carbon and reducing carbon emissions from development addressed in the revised NPF?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the issue of compact growth and city-focused growth, which runs through the document, one of the key challenges in terms of developing more housing and compact growth in cities involves issues around affordability. How is this addressed in the revised NPF? What measures are there to promote more affordability in terms of compact growth and city-focused growth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: To clarify, when I talk about affordability, I am not just talking about tenure type. You can have affordable housing, affordable rent or rent as a tenure type. I am talking about affordability in general. One of the blockages for people in accessing housing in cities in terms of compact growth is affordability. It can be more affordable to access housing such as private tenure housing in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Work was done to address concerns that developers were bringing forward regarding viability and density. Are there any plans to do things to address affordability in particular? Housing is becoming less and less affordable for people to access. It is more of an issue in city areas and it is more of an issue in terms of compact growth. Is there anything in the NPF that seeks to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is what I expect it to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am conscious that the programme for Government references the Vienna model of housing. In Vienna, there is specific zoning for not-for-profit housing, which is effectively affordable housing. Are those kind of measures going to be considered as a result because NPO 48 does mention using zoning policies? Will the kind of measures referenced in the programme for Government in terms of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Why not? When there is good use of zoning in other countries, as referenced in the programme for Government, to make housing more affordable, why are we not considering those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So it might be addressed in Housing for All.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That would be the place to address it. The strategy says that increasing housing supply remains the principal solution to resolving homelessness. What is the evidence base for that statement? Housing supply is increasing and homelessness is increasing so what is the evidence base for this statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: However, as housing supply increases, homelessness is increasing. The evidence base from around Europe is that if you improve security for renters and households, you can decrease homelessness because it is the more vulnerable households that become homeless when there is a lack of security. That is what the evidence base says. What is the evidence base for this because we can clearly see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Steven Matthews: The planning nerds in the room and those watching on TV will gladly read through 200 or 400 pages of planning documents over the next couple of weeks. Many people do not have the time for that and would find it really difficult to get into those documents. Does the Department produce a non-technical summary or an easy-to-read introduction to the document? It would bring people into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Steven Matthews: I think that would be helpful, if it was the first thing people saw when they clicked on the website or the consultation portal. An introduction would show what the process is all about and what it is hoping to achieve. Beyond that, there could be reams and reams of detail for those who are interested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am literally looking through the track-changes version of the document and just to say, that it is absolutely brilliant. That is just what we need. Is that document called the amendments' document?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On page 58 of the amendments' document I want to pick up on Deputy Leddin's line of questioning so that I understand it. Table 4.1 on page 58 contains the amended population-growth targets by region. Two things jump out when I look at the tracked changes. While the range for population growth in Dublin city and the suburbs remains as it was at 20% to 25%, in Cork, Limerick, Galway and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means that the actual end point at 2040 has not changed. It is just reflective of the distribution of population growth to date, from 2018 to 2023 or 2024. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a supplementary question. In the last column on the right-hand side, all the minimum target population growth numbers are higher than they were in the previous document. Is that just reflective of the general overall increase in population growth? What explains that set of track changes?