Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make one point. I do not envy the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, at all because he has been dropped into an area that is not his ministerial brief. We are going to have other Ministers come in who are not from our Department, and this is absolutely not a criticism - I want to stress that. However, we need to be able to engage with the substance of the amendments, no matter which Minister is in. It is fine for this one but it will be a problem if this becomes a pattern simply because Ministers are being drafted in to deal with a Bill which, through no fault of their own, they would not have the background on. I just make that point. I will come back to it again, if I need to. The Cathaoirleach can see my point, surely.

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