Results 4,321-4,340 of 15,697 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is the Government's intention to seek representatives of his Department and/or the Department of Finance on the LDA board or whether the new board positions will be advertised via the PAS. [6820/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the establishment and use of a designated activity company by Clare County Council to delivery affordable homes in Ennis; his views on the use of DACs in such circumstances; and if their use required Ministerial or Departmental approval. [6833/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For future days, unless we have these subgroupings-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am still not convinced this will be a functional way of doing this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the greatest respect, it is not for the Minister of State to be open to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor. My point is that I do not think this will be effective but we will give it a try and we will see. I remind the Minister of State that it is the committee, under the guidance of the Chair, who decide how we proceed. We want to facilitate to the Minister of State and his officials as much as possible. The problem is that the Minister of State just does not understand the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the one hand, the entire purpose of this Bill is to do away with amendment after amendment to our planning and development law. We are meant to get a single consolidated item of legislation that planning professionals can work with. Yet, here is another example where we are being told it actually will not be in this Bill but will be in subsequent regulations or might even be in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the floor, with he greatest respect to the Minister of State. The idea that section 46(2)(b) is balanced and addresses the concerns-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----shows how out of touch with reality the Minister of State is. He should talk to people who live in rural Gaeltachtaí and ask them whether that provision, which already exists in the existing planning development legislation, is not new and provides no new powers or functions to local authorities or planning authorities, is adequate to ensure that our planning system takes decisions...