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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: I move amendment No. 332: In page 100, line 36, after “area” to insert “, including to the use of Irish and viability of any relevant Gaeltacht community,”.

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 technical query on this section.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: My query relates to section 41(8), which states: Where a development plan as made or varied departs from any relevant guidance contained in National Planning Policy Guidance, the written statement referred to in subsection (2) shall include a statement of the reasons why, in the opinion of the planning authority— (a) the departure is not detrimental to the proper planning and...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It seems what the Minister of State is actually saying is that it is a matter for the local authorities in question to decide whether the co-ordination is practicable or not. It seems that this is about whether they have the resources, wherewithal or whatever at the time, and that the local authority decides if it can or cannot.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister is not satisfied, they will ask the OPR for a second independent opinion and will potentially be informed by that as to whether or not to issue a direction.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have had part of this discussion before. The Minister of State will know that, in 2019, the expert group on Traveller accommodation was published. This was a hugely significant report. The Housing Agency and Professor Michelle Norris had undertaken a very detailed study of the Traveller accommodation programmes which had been published by the Department and the Housing Agency some years...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I mentioned recommendations 7, 9 and 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, in fairness to the Minister of State, he has given us much more detailed responses than we got the last day.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to respond specifically to the points the Minister of State raised. I will not take too much time on this but it is important. It is almost five years since these recommendations were made. It was July 2019. It seems to me that that is plenty of time to consider whether to progress any of them. With respect to recommendation B.2, the Minister of State talked about the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a sensible amendment for two reasons. If, for example, a local authority is doing a development plan, co-ordinated area plan or priority urban area plan, and if the local authority is of the view that there is a need for affordable housing, one of the ways of ensuring that can be delivered is through making such a zoning available. Let us keep in mind that zoning can be for things...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy O'Callaghan has made a very good point about the Chivers site because, from memory, the developer doubled the price of the site from €5 million to €10 million. If the councillors had been able to apply an affordable housing zoning condition to the land, that could not have happened and that site could be used in a more useful way. However, it also misses the point of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even better.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 206: In page 66, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) recognition, protection and promotion of cultural spaces.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 207: In page 66, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) recognition, protection and regulation of night venues.”. To help with time, I will speak to all of the amendments as a single group. I may come back on individual elements of the Minister of State's response, if necessary. If the Cathaoirleach will bear with me for a second, I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will again speak to the generality of the amendments rather than going through responses to each one. The problem is that cultural spaces and culture are not explicitly referenced in the Bill. That is part of the reasoning but in drafting these amendments, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, who is primarily responsible for them, and I were of the view that it would be appropriate to put them in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In some senses, the reply from the Minister of State has highlighted the problem. There is a planning element to this because unless you have the physical space and infrastructure, it is difficult to have these activities. Most of the examples the Minister of State gave were rightly about the reuse of existing buildings and I accept there is some good work. If we consider Adamstown, which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 208: In page 66, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) prevention, reduction, amelioration and mitigation of risks of socio-linguistic damage in Gaeltacht areas.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 209: In page 66, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) the objective of restoring the Irish language to use as a spoken language nationwide and as the community language of the Gaeltacht.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 221: In page 67, to delete lines 24 to 29 and substitue the following: “(10) For the purposes of subsection (9), a modification shall be deemed to be minor where it does not substantively or materially alter the draft National Planning Statement. (11) Notwithstanding subsection (10), where a modification is likely to have a significant effect on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 222: In page 68, lines 2 to 4, to delete from and including “(1)” in line 2 down to and including line 4 and substitute the following: “(1) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 28 of the Act of 2000 effected by section 6, any guidelines issued under this section that were in force immediately before such repeal shall continue in force on or after...