Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I suggest the reference to the climate Act in section 83(1)(a)(x) and (b)(x) be removed. The reason I suggest deleting it is because the introductory headline to the section again has this thing about having regard. I had two amendments, one of which was to change that language to strengthen it so that we do not just have regard to the climate Act but that we be consistent with the climate Act. We cannot just have regard to the climate Act in planning. We must be absolutely consistent with it. I accept we did have a good interaction. I cannot remember which Minister it was with.
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