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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...That is bizarre in this day and age in places where people are willing to live where there are some types of services. Traditional family grouping, or extended family grouping, was what sustained the Irish language for many years. There are different traditional settlements and there needs to be a recognition that they need to continue for the Irish language to survive. Not all the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a significant effort by organisations, many of which the Minister knows, including Conradh na Gaeilge, to ensure a Bill that was in real terms blind to the interaction of the planning system and Irish-language speakers and communities would be addressed. Much of our discussion concerns issues those organisations have rightly asked us to include. I made the point yesterday that part of...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...legislation and that have a standing in law are taken fully into account. That should be a given. The problem is over the years it has not been a given. They have been set aside. Sometimes Irish language communities have had to go to court to ensure that their rights are protected or that due regard has been given to some of the written statements or some of the laws pertaining to the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...assess. This is the whole point, and this is why folks like Conradh na Gaeilge have put so much effort into encouraging the submission of so many amendments. Supporting, encouraging and developing Irish language-speaking communities is not just a matter of language policy, and the encouragement of language policy or education. It is also a matter of physical planning, and of what gets...

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,...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...linguistic and cultural heritage of those areas. As we have said about other amendments in the grouping, these amendments would not have been submitted were there not a necessity to meet the challenges currently faced by Irish-language speakers in Gaeltacht communities and the failure of our planning process to date. We have talked through some of the human stories in this regard and...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I want to comment on quite a few of my amendments in the grouping, particularly Nos. 322, 326, 332, 341 and 347. They relate to setting out obligations in the legislation to ensure Irish-language-speaking and Gaeltacht areas are considered and to the fore in making development plans. The amendments require insertions and many of them are self-explanatory. They provide that, where we are...