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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not unlike what we were asking the Minister of State to do with the national planning framework. In this regard, we were saying we would like the Department to produce summaries of people's submissions and make them available to the public, as opposed to a general summary document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is my point. My only experience of this is the development plan process. That is very helpful because one can go through the summaries and then dip in and out as an elected member but also as a member of the public.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and if it were to be extended to the NPF-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be helpful if, in his response to my further questions, the Minister of State made it very clear whether the discussion we are having on the regional spatial and economic strategies is equally relevant to the development plans and the area plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. In that case, let us tease out the issue of a possible conflict of interest, because I believe that is what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan is getting at and because it is quite important. Let us use a real, live case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope that if the Minister of State lets me finish, he will be clear. Let us take a real, live case, namely the controversy over the out-of-town retail park in Cork county. It is useful to discuss this and I am not making a judgment on either side. I realise it is not a matter of a regional spatial and economic strategy but it highlights a particular issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not asking the Minister of State to speak about it but my question on conflicts of interest may be best illustrated by my doing so. The Minister of State may speak just to the general matter of conflicts of interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me hypothesise, so. Let us imagine that, in another local authority-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a quick supplementary question. Just so we are clear on the import of amendment No. 294, this does not give the summary of the submissions any greater strength, or that is the only thing that has to be considered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am trying to read-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. I am trying to understand-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment is inserted after the words-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is inserted after "the draft direction and ..."

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Bear with me for a second. I ask the Minister of State to be patient with me. When “making a recommendation to the Minister as to whether to issue a direction in the terms of the draft direction and in the summary of submissions submitted to the Minister under subsection (12) ..."-----

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm receipt of a foreign birth registration application from a person (details supplied); and if an indication of a turnaround time is available. [13118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current processing times for applications for foreign birth registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951; if his Department has finished considering the draft SI in conjunction with NewERA; the timeframe for when an increase might be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Service long-term leased properties have been transferred to the LDA; and if not, when this transfer will take place. [12847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Referendum Campaigns (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to the Exchequer of running the two Constitutional referendums on 8 March 2024. [11688/24]