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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even in summary.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister would never bore us. He might frustrate, annoy or anger us but never bore us.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for that. I will also make some general observations. I am sure the Minister is aware of the protest outside the Oireachtas yesterday in relation to some of these debates. Increasingly, when we are engaging with the people who live in or want to live in the Gaeltacht, their representative organisations or the planning officers, the issue of housing is becoming central...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is probably the most significant amendment in the entire group. That is evident from its length. I will pick up on where the Minister left off before we took the break around what he argued regarding the challenges, particularly with social and affordable housing eligibility. Our social housing system is very clear. In addition to general needs housing, we have a variety of other...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly, but they are not legally permissible. Let us not go back to the rural planning guidelines. We will fight that one out separately. Has there been any attempt in any other EU jurisdiction to find some similar mechanism, particularly in countries that have minority or national languages they are trying to revive? This amendment speaks more broadly to that cluster of issues I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a tempting offer.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I heard the Minister start to say Galway.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What other mechanism could be used? I am genuinely interested to hear the Minister's thoughts.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The officials worked very hard to produce those speaking notes for the Minister. He should at least speak to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I invite the Minister to convince me with respect to priority area plans. I disagree with the Minister - I believe there is a strong case to be made that those areas the State has designated as Gaeltachtaí are different. They are areas in which we want to ensure the people who live there are able to live through the medium of Irish in their everyday lives. We have to find a way to say...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 35: “Legal acts of European Union and International Conventions given effect to by this Act 3. Effect or further effect, as the case may be, is given by this Act to— (a) an act specified in Part 1 of the Table to this section, adopted by an institution of the European Union or, where appropriate, to part of such an act, and (b) an International...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two follow-up questions on that. Why was it appropriate, or was it not appropriate, to have a similar list in the 2000 Act? That is obviously where this amendment originates. Despite there being individual mentions of individual elements of EU law or international conventions in various places in the text, surely it is helpful to have all the relevant provisions stated distinctly....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am interested to hear the Minister's response first of all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My understanding is not all 14 of the directives and conventions, or both, listed here are referenced in the Bill despite the fact all of them are relevant. I could be wrong. If the Minister wants to put on record a guarantee they are all listed as appropriate throughout the relevant sections of the Bill that would be interesting, but my understanding is they are not. On that basis I will...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are all 14 of these referenced?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hear what the Minister is saying, but it is a different point. My point is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be pressing the amendment. This is my last comment on the matter. The tenth directive listed on the table-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, in the amendment. That is the only table in front of us. It concerns public participation. That is not referenced in Part 9 of the Bill and that directive is very clearly relevant to Part 9 in terms of public participation and access to justice Council directives. That is just one example where I do not think the advice given to the Minister is fully accurate. I appreciate that it...