Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will come back to this issue on Report Stage if the Minister of State does not. It will be early enough on Report Stage. There is no extra cost involved in doing it. This is the luxury of it. A whole new planning system is being set up, so we can get it right from the get-go. We did not get it right with Irish Water. It is now Uisce Éireann. That organisation has had to change its name. It is an example of a body that was newly set up and had to change its branding. Perhaps the company changed its name because people did not like the name Irish Water anyway, similar to the case of Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, and places like that which had bad press and had to change their names.
I think this is useful. We are approaching Seachtain na Gaeilge, so perhaps the Minister of State can come back to us even before this tome of amendments is concluded and tell us this has been looked at and that he will definitely be accepting these amendments, rather than us having to wait and wait. If we have word that these amendments are being accepted, that will mean that we will not have to resubmit them on Report Stage. I am happy enough to withdraw amendment No. 3, and then to withdraw the other amendments as we get to them. There are quite a lot of them.
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