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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Well, no-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The airport campus is part of it, however.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: All of the campus?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy should go ahead; it is a fair point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is a fair point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, that is understood.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is the same, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is important. I am glad the Deputy raised it. We are all getting used to our new constituencies too. Unquestionably, it is a national airport as well and there are issues. In fairness, Oireachtas Members in this instance, if we stick to elected Members of Dáil Éireann, do have an interest and an input. They engage with the Aircraft Noise Competent Authority, ANCA. It is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We probably need to clarify that "the airport campus" means the airport campus and facilities, as opposed to merely where the airport is located. I imagine that the campus is liable to grow if what we hear is correct. I will certainly look at that and revert.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is a good point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It would.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We could for argument's sake stop after "Dáil Éireann".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Then, it would allow Members to interact. Let me have a look at it, however. I will make a change on the relevant sections.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Let us come back to it. It is a good point and I am glad the Deputy raised it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, I think-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, because part of it would be in the city and part of it is in the county. Obviously, ANCA sits within Fingal as an independent body. I will look at it. Now, as the Deputy already said, I do not want to be too expansive-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----but if he gives us time between Committee Stage and Report Stage, those are two areas we will need to tighten up, expand or amend. I will tell the Deputy now that we will come forward with some changes because it is very important that TDs who represent communities that are close and adjacent to the airport are able to deal with issues that arise and that are arising right now. It is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----will help it further.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not in any way dismissing the points the Deputy has raised because environmental considerations are extremely important. I know the areas that the Deputy has mentioned extremely well, having grown up and lived there my whole life. What I would say to the Deputy is this: this section in the Bill relates to noise and the aircraft noise piece, which goes back to the 2019 Act. With...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We deal with appropriate assessment, AA, environmental impact assessment, EIA, and those elements of it with regard to, where there are future developments, how those assessments and screening would have to take place as part of the planning process. The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with matters such as the Deputy has raised there.