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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It continues: Notwithstanding subsection (10), where a modification is likely to have a significant effect on the environment, or is likely to have a significant effect on any European site either individually or in combination with other plans or projects, the modification shall not be deemed to be minor. Sometimes, impacts are cumulative and relate to adjacent sites, projects or plans....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is "shall not be deemed to be minor".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is exactly as it says. It is either a combination of sites or sites that abut or interact with other plans or projects.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is not clear, what I am trying to capture are cumulative impacts.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us deal with these amendments first and we can deal with the other amendment afterwards. I am happy to see the language, as it was originally set out in the Bill, changed. It was one of the things I had queried because the provision seemed too broad and, as the Minister said, could be interpreted more widely than was the original intention. However, I am still a little concerned...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but wider.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a second part of my question. I presume this is to protect the plans from legal challenge where there is a very legitimate reason the timelines might not have been met, as the Minister said. That is the function of this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 178: In page 64, lines 12 and 13, to delete “ “National Planning Policies and Measures” ” and substitute “ “Beartais Pleanála Náisiúnta” ”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a disappointing response because the inclusion of the word "historic" is important. Section 24(1)(i) relates to the protection of landscapes and features of natural, archaeological, architectural and cultural heritage. However, there could be things that are historically important that do not fit in those other four terms. What we are trying to do is to slightly broaden it not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to bear with me because we have plenty of time to do this. I do not see, given the size and scale of a national planning policy statement or a mandatory ministerial guideline, how one could comply with EIA, SEA or AA requirements under EU law or Aarhus requirements for public participation. I cannot see any set of circumstances where, given the significance of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful, amendments Nos. 217 to 219, inclusive, are related to an earlier amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Those amendments are consequential on amendment No. 211 so I am quite happy not to talk to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 221.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This amendment relates to section 24(10) with respect to the modifications and whether they are deemed minor or not. I have two questions to ask and I will speak to the amendment when I have heard the answer from the Minister of State. Section 24(10)(a) refers to a situation where "it does not substantively or materially alter the draft National Planning Statement". The question, of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, it is section 24(10) on page 67 of the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to be clear.