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

Eoin Ó Broin: We are to have 12 notes now because there were eight yesterday.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In the note the Minister is going to provide, can I put in a couple of additional questions in order that my queries are clear? I am beginning to understand that section a bit better. Section 11(1), provides that "A relevant declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the matters stated therein in relevant proceedings brought by an enforcement authority" or the Director of Public...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask that question because in the way this is worded, it sounds as though there is a live enforcement action and the planning authority or the DPP will take action against the developer. The developer in this case may have sought a section 10 declaration, as it will now be called, but gave false or misleading information. I do not understand why in that scenario there would need to be the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that extend to section 11?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 66: In page 42, to delete line 40, and in page 43, to delete lines 1 to 13.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 68: In page 43, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(f) any other person has a material interest in establishing whether the development is exempt from planning permission.”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: As someone who has spoken about grammar and syntax at the committee, I cannot complain about anyone else's punctuation.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 85: In page 47, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(iii) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact assessment.”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 87: In page 47, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(iii) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 90: In page 48, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(v) the opinion of the Minister as to whether the development is likely to have an impact on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area.”. I press the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91: In page 48, line 28, to delete “a relevant” and substitute “any”. I press the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I press the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 98: In page 50, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “(j) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact assessment;”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 100: In page 51, line 11, after “Prosecutions” to insert “or any other person”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will read the Minister of State one of the key recommendations of the executive summary of the Mahon tribunal report, which is directly relevant to this amendment. Recommendation 1.09 states: As is clear from the above, at national level, both the NDP and the N[ational] S[patial] S[trategy, the forerunner to the national planning framework] play a key role in the planning system....

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

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect, that was not the question. We know the position remains unchanged and we are not asking the Minister of State to change it. Deputy O'Callaghan and I are asking a very simple question. The Mahon tribunal recommended a vote of the Oireachtas. In its wisdom, the Government has chosen not to have such a vote. I am asking the Minister of State why this is the case.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, the Minister of State has not answered the question, so I will repeat it at the end.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor. The Minister of State has not answered the question and I will repeat it again for clarity at the end. The Minister of State has repeated what the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, told us yesterday, which I accept is the Government's position. I am not disputing it. We have a planning regulator because the Mahon tribunal report recommended one. It also recommended...