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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response. He referred to the Gaeltacht communities, the priority area plans and having special plans for each Gaeltacht. That would be consistent with the amendments I am proposing and would complement the national planning framework, which would then be supportive of those priority area plans. That would fit in quite well. Specifically on my amendment No....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will comment on this group and then will move on to amendment No. 193. I have to respond to what the Minister said. As Deputy Ó Snodaigh correctly pointed out, the Minister said he cannot accept amendment No. 167 because language plans are not defined. As Deputy Ó Snodaigh pointed out-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Chair does not want me repeating myself but I have said at least ten times when talking about language planning that language plans come on a statutory basis from the Gaeltacht Act 2012. The language planning process includes Limistéir Pleanála Teanga, Bailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta and Comhar Naíonraí na Gaeltachta Teo. The Chair does not want me repeating myself...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister have a response on my amendment No. 193? I acknowledge that the Minister has responded on the general area but I would appreciate it if he responded on the specific amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to come in briefly on amendments Nos. 641 and 642. Amendment No. 641 is to ensure an application for permission for a standard development can be made in either Irish or English. This is all it says and all it seeks to do. Amendment No. 642 seeks to ensure that when an application for permission for a standard development is made as Gaeilge, any return correspondence to an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Currently, most of the new housing supply, for example, to serve the GDA that is available to purchase is happening outside of Dublin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We will not be able to discuss it when it comes to the point of voting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It can be moved and voted on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: For clarity, the article is signed by Gavin Lawlor, president of the Irish Planning Institute. It is specifically about this Bill and he specifically mentions the issues we are discussing now. He says: Unnecessary changes include amendments to the process ...allowing the public to seek declarations on whether a particular development needs planning permission. At their core, these seek...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am speaking on my amendments Nos. 66, 67, 69, 71, 91, 93, 94, 96, 101 and 103. The last ones are slightly different as they talk about a relevant declaration. Essentially, these amendments are well grouped. Almost all of them simply seek to keep the provisions in the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Government is proposing to take out a small number of words, but they are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a short point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister has referenced looking at the environmental groups. To give an example, you could have a very scenic area of natural beauty. You could have development that takes place in it. The people who carry out the development may view it as being exempted development but there are lots of people who that could have an impact on, and who might have an opinion on it. It is not just...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sorry. I apologise. That is just the point I wanted to make - that it is fine as an example, but I hope when the Minister is looking at this he will look at restoring third party rights. There is a variety reasons as to why a wider group of people have an interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Although amendment No. 101 is in the grouping and we had a good discussion on the issues related to that grouping, I did not address the specifics in the amendment. It seeks to insert that a relevant declaration, which is a declaration under what we know as a section 5 process, shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings brought by a person, other than an enforcement authority,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can I be left out of all these examples, please?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome a lot of what the Minister has said because it is in line with what I am going to say. The case I am making is that development, and what is exempted development, affects not just the landowner but can also affect neighbours and people in the community. Rather than fixing any problems with section 5, the Government's proposed wording, as it stands in the Bill, simply seeks to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have one comment, which is that there was a good deal of criticism of the consultation process through the planning forum. The criticism from the IPI, given that it is the key petitioner in the area and represents the public and the private sectors, needs to be listened to. Apart from the IPI, as a formal organisation, I have also heard from planners with a similar view and this sense...