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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 36: In page 38, line 17, to delete “or expedient”. While all the amendments in this group relate to amendments, they are all quite distinct, so I am going to deal with each of them separately if that is okay. Amendment No. 36 seeks to make a change to section 4(2). That subsection currently reads "Regulations under this Act ... may contain such...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will stick to amendment No. 36 for the moment and come back to amendment No. 37 afterwards. First, just because something has been done in the past does not mean it should be done in the future. A Green Minister of State should know that better than most people. In addition, the Minister of State has not explained what the function of the word is. I would have thought "necessary", which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will also speak to amendment No. 37. What the Minister of State said does not clarify it. If the Government wanted to use the word "quicker", it should have used the word "quicker". Part of the problem with this is if the language in the legislation is not clear, it will end up in court. In court, the threshold will not be that the Minister of State said at committee the intention...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect they do not exist.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My final point on these two amendments is that the procedure for a resolution to annul the regulation is not a check at all. One assumes that the Government will have a majority and that it will be able to defeat a motion to annul the regulation. I am not aware of any such resolution even having been tabled during my time here. If one were tabled, it would be lost. The idea of a check is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the anticipated emissions from domestic aviation per year from 2022 to 2030 and the projected reductions with existing measures and with additional measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the number of islanded data centres that are already connected to the gas grid; those that contracted to connect; those that are seeking contract to connect; and for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [7671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Trade Data (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much jet kerosene was imported into Ireland annually from 2010 to 2023. [7810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish the State Action for Aviation Emissions Reduction which should have been submitted in 2021 to the International Civil Aviation Organisation. [7471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for allocating SNA support to students in second level educational settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered sanctioning the opening of a new reading school or new reading classes attached to mainstream schools in the Dublin mid-west area given the oversubscription for reading schools in Dublin for the 2024/2025 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the categories of people who are eligible for postal voting. [7583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many courses (details supplied) will run in CHO7 in 2024; and the dates on which they will commence. [8092/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three points. First, it is a bit bizarre to say that planning regulations are of a technical nature and, therefore, we do not need to consult on those. I would have thought some of the more technical regulations would benefit from third-party engagement, particularly if it is by way of prescribed bodies and, therefore, you would be setting out the kinds of bodies that would be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final comment on amendment No. 39. It obviously reinforces amendment No. 38 in terms of effective public participation. Effective public participation is not just having a meeting where people say stuff. Ultimately, for public participation to be meaningful, it has to in some way influence the outcome. Killian Woods had a very interesting article in the Business Postpublished...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not just any comment. The IPI is a hugely important body in terms of this legislation because it represents the country's planners. It engaged with the committee and the Chair may remember that some of its commentary was quite stark and very forthright. The institute made a subsequent submission to the Department which was then shared with the committee after the final text of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Their point is that the Government is not listening to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take the Chair's point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I should keep a record of all of the memos the Minister of State has promised to bring back to us because his officials, who are already overworked on this Bill, are going to have ever-growing mountains of paper to produce. This is my last word on the IPI for the moment. The difference between the Minister of State's and the IPI's description of the consultation process is interesting. That...