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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process through which parents who have been unable to access developmental checks for their children due to staff shortages in their area, can access an appointment in an alternative location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13380/24]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 392: In page 106, after line 39, to insert the following: “Obligation to prepare Cultural Development Strategy 47. A planning authority shall in consultation with An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the National Cultural Institutions, Fís Éireann, locally-based cultural institutions as well as local artists, arts workers, arts businesses and communities,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy for the Minister of State to go through-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What about the cultural and mythological aspect?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is it covered explicitly or implicitly? I apologise but I am not very familiar with that Act.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The same formula of words, therefore, is used in that Act as in these amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Battle sites are, but what about cultural and mythological interests?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to move on to the next part of the grouping.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will wait to hear the Minister of State's responses, if that is okay.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the Minister of State's response to amendments Nos. 401 and 402, if adding further complexity to the planning process was a reason to not put something in the Bill, very large sections of this Bill would not see the light of day given the very significant level of complexity they are adding to the system, whether one can say that is a good idea or not. I therefore just do not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This refers to places, caves, sites, features and other objects of archaeological, geological-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let me ponder that for a moment and then I will come back to the Minister of State, depending on what others say. I would like to hear more on amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and amendment No. 403.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I offer one final challenge, to make the effort. Paragraph (b) uses the phrase "in particular the protection of trees, groups of trees or other features", so the word "protection" does not just apply to trees but to groups of trees or other features. It is not just a protection order for a tree.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What I do not understand is that, according the Minister of State's logic, one would just put a full stop after the words "Biodiversity Plan" because the EU biodiversity strategy-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If we take the Minister of State's argument to the logical conclusion, one would just put a full stop after "National Biodiversity Plan" because he is essentially arguing that biodiversity in accordance with the EU biodiversity strategy and the national biodiversity plan covers it. What he is not explaining is why "trees" and "groups of trees" are explicitly named while everything else is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We should nominate a charity and have a box for donations so every time a Minister or Minister of State uses "added complexity", "to strike a balance" or "to avoid unintended consequences"-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I would be quite happy to, so long as it is a good charity.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister or Minister of State has to put a euro in. I am more than happy to follow suit and put a euro in for every one of my nominated phrases. There is a serious point to my flippancy, which is that very often when an argument appears weak, the phrase "unintended consequences" is then used. The unintended consequences apply as much to trees as to hedgerows. I am not looking for a...