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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 200: In page 66, lines 6 and 7, to delete “and the assessment of any application for development consent under Part 4”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment is self-explanatory. We had a lengthy discussion in the previous session with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, about adding other areas which should be included in the list of 15 areas of section 24 for consideration when issuing national planning statements. As I said to the Minister when he was here earlier, I appreciate that the section 24(1) does not preclude the adding of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will go further than Deputy O'Callaghan on the spending because this is something I have been tracking very carefully for quite a number of years. During Covid-19, for the first time, the capital allocation was spent in full. Initially, this was on Covid measures. In many cases, then, it was spent on-site improvements. Again, these are very welcome but the number of new...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have some questions that will not be dealt with in a few minutes. I am conscious that it is 5.10 p.m. and we were supposed to be finished at 5 p.m.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We will not get this done.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it an offence for a landlord to seek sex in lieu of rent or to advertise to seek sex in lieu of rent and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. It was in December 2021 that Ann Murphy, a young reporter with the Irish Examiner, broke the scandal that has...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 141: In page 61, line 12, after “cultural” to insert “, Irish language community”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 143: In page 61, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(vi) compliance with the State’s European Union obligations for waste management, water quality, air quality, nature conservation and restoration, and reduction of green house gas emissions,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 147: In page 61, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(iv) preserve the Gaeltacht settlement patterns in which the Irish language has survived as a community language in the case of Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 148: In page 61, to delete lines 19 to 23 and substitute the following: “(d) conservation of the environment and its amenities, including— (i) landscape, landscape features, including hedgerows, (ii) ecology, (iii) biodiversity, (iv) water resources, (v) archaeological, historic, architectural and natural heritage, and the establishment of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 150: In page 61, line 19, after “conservation” to insert “and restoration”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 152: In page 61, line 23, after “architectural” to insert “, cultural, linguistic”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 154: In page 61, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(e) promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations and monitoring them within the life of the plan;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 158: In page 61, between line 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This section deals with the national planning framework and the related subsequent sections deal with the review. In yesterday’s response to the decision to defer the publication of the draft revised national planning framework, with which I have no issue whatsoever, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, outlined that new statistical information was awaited from the final report of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for that information. It was the same information that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, gave us yesterday.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have no issue with the information as presented, but the Minister of State has not addressed my question, which related to section 19 specifically. Let me explain it with a little more clarity. When the ESRI did its study in 2019, which was based on the census figures from 2016, the terms of reference for that work were not decided by the ESRI, but by the Department. I know this because...