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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. 257: In page 74, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(vi) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region,”.

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. 259: In page 74, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(vi) board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any Language Planning Officer within the region,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three or four technical questions but they might take about ten minutes.

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 some clarification on section 29(1), (5) and (6).

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of questions, just to seek clarity. Subsection (1) reads "Before making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy in accordance with section 30, a regional assembly shall" and then stipulates the various things a regional assembly shall do and whom it should consult. When discussing the national planning framework, I was struck that the soft word "may" was used in...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine but I would like the Minister of State to address the specific part of my question, which is on where there is no agreement. Section 29(5) sets out that if agreement is not reached between a regional assembly and a local authority under subsection (4), in accordance with the process set out, the Minister may direct the local authority to co-operate with the regional assembly on...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that an admission that, by using "may" rather than "shall", we do not want to give the same clear direction to the Minister in comparable but more important statewide plan-making?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for that.

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. 262: In page 77, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(iv) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region,".

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. 264: In page 77, line 23, after “Gaeltacht,” to insert the following: “the use of Irish within Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns and Irish Language Networks, their economic, social, and infrastructural development in coordination with Údarás na Gaeltachta or Foras na Gaeilge as appropriate, and support for 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. 266: In page 77, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(5) The preparation, making and revision of a regional spatial and economic strategy shall be subject to an assessment in respect of its effect on water quality of water bodies in the region, in respect of requirements under Article 4 of the Water Framework Directive.”.

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. 271: In page 81, to delete all words from and including “(1)” in line 35 down to and including line 41 and substitute the following: “(1) Where a regional assembly agrees to make a regional spatial and economic strategy or a revision to an existing strategy, it shall, within 1 week of agreeing to make the strategy or revision, as the case may...

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. 273: In page 82, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(f) board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any Language Planning Officers within the region,”.

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. 275: In page 82, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following: “(4) Notwithstanding anything else provided for under this Act, a Regional Spatial Strategy or a Revision to a Regional Spatial Strategy shall not be deemed to be made until the strategy has been published under subsection (1), and it shall take effect 6 weeks after the date on...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is one of a number of what can be described as very significant "innovations" in the Bill, and I use that word not necessarily saying it is a good thing in this instance. It relates to the interaction of the various layers of plan-making with the issuance of new national planning policy statements and the role of the regulator and the Minister. As these are quite new, very significant...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister of State accept these are significant changes to the way decisions are made? This goes back to a previous discussion. Because the national planning policy statements can deal not only with forward planning, but also development management, and because the scope of those statements is so great, the potential for what are termed material inconsistencies in this section and...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to reply to two points and get a bit of clarity on how section 34 operates at the point when a direction is issued. I will ask the question first. Section 34(8) states that where the Minister decides under subsection (7) that a draft direction should be issued under section 37, he or she shall identify the stated reasons and direct the OPR to issue the draft direction. I am keen to...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The question I was asking related to how the draft directions, as detailed in this section, will interact with section 35. Are they stand-alone, will they become implemented once the Minister lays them or will they then spill into the expedited amendment procedure in section 35? I do not want to get into section 35 now but I am trying to work out whether, if a draft direction is issued...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I was clear about that, but my question is what will happen if the director of the regional assembly opts not to do that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: And that is it.