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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Bill states that they may be made available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is head 335. I do not have the page number on front of me but it is subsection (3)(a).

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Should there also be timelines around that? That is an issue at present. Most of the public get their information about planning applications online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On putting information up and making it available online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Where is that in the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Department will look to reflect that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Mr. Ryan might check that because it is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of head 133 on the request for extension of planning permission, are there any timelines to be set out in that regard? Does that potentially allow for indefinite and continuous extensions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: That people have to give.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Under head 133, can someone apply for a six-year extension and then another three-year or four-year extension? Are there any parameters?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amy Fitzpatrick has been missing now for 15 years. Amy disappeared when she was just 15 years old while staying in the Costa del Sol. Her family is heartbroken, as any family would be. They just want to be able to find Amy, bring her home and lay her to rest. New evidence has emerged recently about a location where it is believed Amy's remains are buried. Despite this new evidence, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a meeting at 11 a.m. that I have to go to. I hope to be back afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Ó Broin hopes to be back shortly as well. There is a lot more that we need to get through here. As far as I can tell, the Bill does not mention anything around areas of strict protection or the importance of carbon-rich habitats, although head 13 talks about facilitating climate adaptation. It does not mention acoustic monitoring networks and the importance of those. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Do those sorts of areas need to be explicitly mentioned in the Bill? Is that important?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: My question is whether it is important that that is explicitly mentioned in the Bill or whether it is fine that the Bill goes ahead as it is without mentioning these things. That is what I am asking the witnesses. I think we are all agreed on the importance of it, but does it need to be in the legislation? We are looking at the legislation and recommendations on it. Do we need to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have to leave but I will be back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a few questions picking up on the point around head 7(5) and the list of potential marine protected area designations. There is a number of different criteria that the Minister shall consider. Some criteria say that the Minister shall "seek", "consider" or "apply". For example, the head provides that the Minister shall "consider sustainable development", "seek to minimise negative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before Ms Loughran comes in, I have a question, which Ms Loughran may also respond to. From what the witnesses are saying in general, am I correct that some of the difficulties of the Bill are that it is not clear and while it lists a lot of different things, it is not clear that they must be done; that the Bill should be framed in a clear way that creating marine protected areas is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before I finish, on a question to Ms Loughran, it seems to me that the Bill has the appearance of acknowledging that we have to have MPAs because it is in the programme for Government and in our international obligations, so here then is a Bill that does that, as opposed to asking why we want to have MPAs, what we want to achieve with them and that being central to the Bill. I would welcome...