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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to it being collectively proposed to amend the list of qualifications and experience for the planning commissioner, including both chief and deputy chief and to insert both reference to ecology and experience in Irish language, the Gaeltacht and language planning pursuant to Act na Gaeltachta 2012. First, regarding the insertion of "ecology" as proposed in amendment No. 1103, I am...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...under any Department. This is where the Official Languages Act 2003 is supposed to guide us. That is the primary Act that is supposed to guide us in how people should be able to operate in the Irish language and vindicate their rights as Irish speakers. It is a matter for that Act and not one for this Bill. I say this even though, on the ground, I do have sympathy for this proposal....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...officers sit within each of the local authorities, so they should be, and are, part of the development plan. In counties Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Cork, Meath and Waterford and our six Gaeltacht regions, Irish language planning officers throughout the country are part of the local authority itself. In respect of An Coimisinéir Teanga agus Foras na Gaeilge, I will look at them in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...are crazy it is more a question of their appropriateness in primary legislation versus regulations. That is where it is at. It is to allow the flexibility that one would need into the future. The strategy on the Irish language has had to be flexible right the way through. Some initiatives that have looked good on paper have not taken hold and others have. There has had to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot say the feeling is mutual. These amendments seek to further merge additional matters - as we have discussed some of this, members will have to bear with me - in relation to the Irish language into the context of development plans through strategies for sustainable development and regeneration, strategies relating to economic development, strategies relating to creation,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...means used by my Department’s for communicating information to the public is through press releases with social media largely used as a means of directing people to the news updates on our website. Under its Irish Language Scheme 2020-2023, my Department will increase to 30% the number of press releases published bilingually during the lifetime of the Scheme. The percentage of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (5 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...process has a statutory footing under the Gaeltacht Act 2012, which is the primary driver in support of the commitment to the achievement of the objectives set out in the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 to 2030. This is recognised in the National Planning Framework (NPF), which refers to the preparation and implementation of language plans at community level. Objective 29 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (13 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...process has a statutory footing under the Gaeltacht Act 2012, which is the primary driver in support of the commitment to the achievement of the objectives set out in the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 to 2030. This is recognised in the National Planning Framework (NPF), which refers to the preparation and implementation of language plans at community level. Objective...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Government will listen to the thousands of people who marched in Dublin last week to celebrate Lá Mór na Gaeilge. Today's debate will be interesting. I hope that the Government fully commits itself to the protection and improvement of the Irish language and allowing State services to be accessed through Irish. Does the Deputy Leader support or have full confidence in the...