Results 501-520 of 11,777 for speaker:Niall Collins
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: The role of the Office of the Planning Regulator is to ensure development plans are consistent with the national planning framework and national planning statements. The engagement of the office on strategic matters prior to the commencement of the review of a development plan, along with the requirement for the office to issue an opinion to the planning authority, is intended to minimise...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: I do not have a whole pile more to add. It is our view that it is appropriate the OPR is involved in the process to bring consistency to the various tiers in plan-making. We want to see less of a need for directions to be given on development plans, ultimately.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 442, tabled jointly by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny and Cian O'Callaghan, concerns the requirement for planning authorities to give a copy of a notice of intention to review a development plan to a number of specified bodies and seeks to amend this list of bodies to include any states where transboundary impacts may...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It will be looked at and they will engage with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel on it. If there is a need for amendments, they will be brought.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 456, tabled by Deputies Eoin Ó Broin, Thomas Gould and Aengus Ó Snodaigh, seeks to amend section 53 providing that a planning authority is to send a notice and a copy of a draft development plan to specified persons and bodies within a specified period. Section 53(3) provides that the Minister and the Office of the Planning Regulator may make recommendations in...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: The Deputy made a valid point. Amendment No. 450 seeks to include a new requirement that any resolution by elected members relating to reserved functions under a number of specified sections in the Bill must be recorded and clearly displayed on the local authority website. In this context, it also seeks to include a requirement that the Minister shall set out in regulations the details to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: And 471.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendments Nos. 459, 460 and 471 concern additions or deletions to the record of protected structures as part of the draft development plan process. Amendment No. 459 seeks to amend subsection (4) of section 53, which currently requires that where a draft development plan proposes additions to or deletions from the record of protected structures of particular structures, parts thereof or...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes. It has merit.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes, I am advised that it is.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Basically, these amendments are similar to amendment No. 450 and we will look at them in the same context, with a view to regulation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public record because it is a public decision of the planning authority.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public document, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public document.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: An elected member at a meeting sitting in public session is entitled to make his or her contribution in the normal course of events, similar to any other issue on the agenda. As regards what the Deputy is getting at here, though, I think the member would need to have made a separate written submission.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: I do not think verbal works.