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

Darragh O'Brien: Níl aon rud fágtha le rá faoin leasú seo.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Shall we dispense with this one first? There is no problem, however, with going through the rest.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will go through the groupings I have as best as I can. I am sure I am leaving myself wide open to criticism but I will go through them as best as I can to be helpful to the committee. Amendments Nos. 308, 310 to 312, inclusive, 317, 431, 434, 479, 483, 503, 506, 509, 512, 533, 537, 541, 545, 549, 560, 563, 566 and 1130 were tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh....

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

Darragh O'Brien: I did not mean to be disrespectful. The Deputy should proceed.

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

Darragh O'Brien: In response to Deputy O'Callaghan, and not to take this in isolation from the overall Bill but just to be helpful, the guidelines we will bring forward when this Bill is passed, it is hoped with everyone's support, will become national planning statements in the new Act, and they are much stronger than guidance. Other Deputies have proposed amendments to national planning statements and we...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Of course I do.

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

Darragh O'Brien: That is not the point. It is how do you fit in-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will be very brief. I appreciate the couple of questions. I am not going to mention any more, and I think we have covered this well. With regard to amendment No. 1130, again, understanding it, there is no issue with definitions as such. They are in other Acts as well. This one would be a Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media function and is in relation to the...

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

Darragh O'Brien: On that very point, I should mention that the OPR already assesses all development plans, including development plans that have Gaeltacht areas in them. It does not set them aside. It does that already.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Understood, yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will get back to the Deputy.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I have pretty much said most of what I am going to say to be very honest with the Deputy. It has been a good discussion and I will be coming back on Report Stage. It is better to channel Gaeltacht planning matters through a development plan. I will bring forward a proposal to have priority area plans as well. Right now, the OPR still has oversight over all development plans and it makes...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I have nothing further to say. We have dealt with it. In response to Deputy Ó Broin, there are four or five subgroupings within the overall grouping. They are not as large as this one. With the Deputies' permission, I suggest discussing amendments Nos. 441, 452, 470, 486, 497, 516, 551, 555 to 557, inclusive, and 569, which have been tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Aontaím leis sin.

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

Darragh O'Brien: These amendments propose additional consultation requirements with a wide range of specified bodies that have some role or function relating to our teanga. These proposed consultation requirements fall across several areas of the Bill, including in the preparation of draft development plans, which is obviously open anyway, a variation of existing plans, the preparation of urban area plans,...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Údarás, as the Deputy said, is already in the regulations. In the case of An Coimisinéir Teanga agus Foras na Gaeilge, that should also be looked at in the context of the regulations, and I will have a look at that. The language planning officers sit within each of the local authorities, so they should be, and are, part of the development plan. In counties Donegal, Galway,...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I would have thought so but we can clarify that. I understand the Deputy's logic.