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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that land for no explicable reason, then the State should step in and give them an ultimatum to either develop the land or the State will go to the court and apply under a designated site scheme as per the Kenny report to acquire it at existing use value. We are not denying anybody their constitutional rights because we are giving the choice to develop the land for which they got zoning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., the developers, to activate land, or, if they are clearly not going to do that, to allow the State to acquire that land at an even more significant discount. I know they are not the same, but the Kenny report suggested existing use value plus 25%. The general scheme refers to market value minus 30% of the uplift. I am trying to think which is the better deal for the taxpayer. There...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...housing activation fund, LIHAF, although the Minister might convince us otherwise, and the targets in respect of vacant properties are just as weak as they were under the previous Government. Nothing in the plan resembles the Kenny report recommendations on land. On the contrary, Mr. Justice Kenny was against the kind of measure the Government has outlined in the plan because it will do...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Acting Chairman. Sinn Féin is proud to support fully this legislation to give effect to the 1973 Report of the Committee on the Price of Building Land, the Kenny report. The leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Kelly, rightly reminded us that on three occasions his party has introduced similar legislation. What he forgot to say, of course, is that during that same period of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...was directly involved in the production of each of the five reports published between 1972 and three years ago to appear before the committee. This will be possible in all cases but one, namely the Kenny report. There is nobody still alive who was involved in its production but we could bring in some independent expert on it. The idea is that those invited will just talk to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...on the types of CPO powers they believe an effective land management agency would need and how much would it be hampered if it did not have CPO powers. I also want to raise the issue of the Kenny report because it is something that is spoken about as often as it is ignored. Much of the time when people speak about it they do not seem to have a full appreciation of what it proposed....