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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Exempted development is an important part of the planning process and having clarity around and confidence in it is important. We may arrive at a point in the future where it is clearer what is an exempted development. It might be capable of being expanded and involve fewer resources in planning areas if there was clarity. Restricting the ability to have clarity on that can undermine...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the District Energy Steering Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will take action to ensure district energy customers are charged at residential rates, rather than the more expensive commercial rates they currently pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the CIÉ 1951 Pension Scheme, which has now met minimum funding standards and is solvent; if he plans to approve any amending statutory instruments for the scheme; if he will ask CIÉ to provide a report on outstanding information sought by the Committee of Trustees and the preliminary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her advice for parents whose children have been refused a school place in all of their local primary or secondary schools due to oversubscription; the options available to these parents and their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 will be deemed an occupational illness as recommended by the EU Advisory Committee. [10427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 155. To ask the Minister for Health given the paid leave for the public health service employees unfit for work post-Covid infection is due to finish in the coming months, if his Department has engaged with the relevant unions regarding the above payment ceasing; if he will outline the long-term plan for those currently in receipt of the payment who will not be able to return to work due to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 will see the introduction of warning signs on alcohol being provided in English and Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10492/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for constitutional amendments. [10247/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are all agreed that, if local authorities were better resourced, this would be more likely to happen. Does the legislation need to be explicit in talking about the goals of good planning, high-quality public realm and multidisciplinary approach? Is that potentially a weakness in the draft Bill that it is not explicit that this is the aim? If the legislation does not explicitly state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are also the issues are around taking in charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it is not just about the aims. It is about the resources and the detail around-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----taking in charge and enforcement. If they are not all done, we can have all the great aims and vision but we will continue not to get it. That is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: To follow up on that, am I correct in saying that what is being said is that this section of the Bill could potentially lead to ten to 15 years of litigation and uncertainty simply to get us back to the point we are at or to the levels of certainty we have now? That is a possibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a question for the representatives from the RIAI in terms of the discussion earlier about the public realm, medium-density and low-rise and how it is very important to get a high-quality public realm as part of that. In my constituency, there are areas that were built 15 years ago that would have been built on a low-rise, medium-density type of a model with a promise of high-quality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that not a massive overreach in terms of the legislation? Surely it is up to the NGO, such as An Taisce or whatever the organisation, to decide its own policies and procedures concerning how it decides whether to submit appeals to An Bord Pleanála. Is it not a massive potential overreach for us, as legislators, to seek to insert measures in legislation that effectively prohibit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask Ms Uí Bhroin to respond briefly on this point because I wish to turn to another section of the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Moving to Parts 12 and 18 of the Bill, do the witnesses have any comments on these sections dealing with the OPR?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Finally, before I run out of time, mention was made in the opening statement of the issue of the extension of the duration of planning permissions. What is the concern there?