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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given all of that other work in terms of international European agreements and domestic legislation, etc., that the provisions here, which is the central provision for the development plan with respect to climate change, is broadly the same as the existing Act and does not include any updated legislative policy or plan developments since 2015 is concerning. While other areas of the Bill have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We look forward to seeing the amendments if they arise.

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. 399: In page 107, line 37, after “authority” to insert “, and of public access to that heritage”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be very helpful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak briefly to the first group of the Minister of State's and then, depending on the replies, not unlike Deputy O'Callaghan, I might want to spend a little more time on individual amendments. Amendment No. 399 is very straightforward. It is to ensure that public access to heritage be within the remit of the conservation strategy. That is the relevant section to which the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----that group in the same way as I have done. Then we can go back and forth on individual amendments, as needed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are amendments Nos. 404 and 408. I apologise - I skipped amendment No. 409. That just seeks to insert a place of "cultural, mythological" interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is in the Minister of State's group. I am speaking to his grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I am speaking to the subgroupings of our amendments that the Minister of State has just read out to us-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----to stay consistent with the order. Amendment No. 409 is included, as are amendments Nos. 412 and 430. They are all in the Minister of State's subgrouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State dealt with amendment No. 413. It is consequential.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two out of six might not be so bad. If only that rate could be sustained.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That will be required. Okay. Let me go through four quick responses. With respect to the public access issues, the response is poor in the following sense. The amendments do not call for unrestricted, unlimited, unfettered access. By trying to provide public access, it is clearly reasonable for that access to be determined in terms of safety and nothing damaging or impinging on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but if the Minister of State is saying that it will be included-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----then I am more than happy to withdraw amendment No. 404. I am unclear on the real rationale for his argument not to extend this to battle sites and cultural and mythological interests so I ask him to expand on that. I would be willing to withdraw amendment No. 412 if, again, the Minister of State were to be very clear that if and when he addresses the principal concern of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by her Department to ensure a place in a reading school is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final outturn of expenditure for Vote 34 for 2023, with a breakdown by each sub heading and individual spending programme within each sub head, in tabular from. [13298/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the recently announced extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education or with a disability does not include a retrospective element; if this will be reconsidered given the impact on families who have been out of payment in the interim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out into the impact of the cessation of child developmental checks under the national healthy childhood programme for children in areas of Dublin mid-west (details supplied) due to staff shortages in the public health nurse service; if so, if the report will be made available; and if not, if a review will be considered at the...

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]