Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 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
Yes, briefly. We spent a lot of time on this issue previously, so I am not going to spend much time on this. The Minister of State, in his response, had it slightly the wrong way round. It is not that we want things to be exempted development. It is the very opposite. The idea here is that if a development in a Gaeltacht area had a negative impact in terms of the use of Irish locally, it should not be considered an exempted development because of its negative impact on the language. Will the Minister of State clarify his reason for not supporting it? However, I will not engage in a long discussion on this.
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