Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will ask one very quick supplementary question about that as what the Minister said is clear. The text on page 114, in section (3)(g), lists "any local community development committee [the LCDCs] within the functional area of the planning authority". The LCDCs - I sat on one - are a function of the local authority. They fit within them, albeit they have other mandates. Clearly, although the LCDC sits within the architecture of the local authority, statutorily and physically, and its secretariat is made up of local authority staff, a decision has been taken to list it here. I fully accept that individuals cannot be prescribed, but the Irish language planning officers sit within a function of the local authority. That could be explored and that is all I ask.
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