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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: Mine will be better so I am not accepting this one. There are only so many ways in which I can say "Ní féidir liom an leasú seo a ghlacadh".

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will list the amendments for members' information. We are proposing to deal with amendments. Nos. 319, 322, 325, 326, 332, 341, 347, 352, 386, 387, 388, 423, 425 and 428. Those amendments were tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. Amendment No. 343 was tabled by Deputies O'Callaghan, Ó Cathasaigh, Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. The last two in this...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Bhíomar ag plé na ceiste ginearálta roimh an sos. We debated the general point here just before the break. Suffice it to say that paragraphs 46(2)(b) and 46(2)(c) well cover what is at stake. We should not be too prescriptive when referring to cultural spaces, facilities and other such things. I genuinely believe we are well covered. All the strategies are integrated as...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Ar an gcéad dul síos, beidh straitéis eacnamaíochta i bplean forbartha gach contae ar aon nós. An economic strategy will be part of every county’s development plan as it is, which would encompass our Gaeltacht areas as well. I am more than satisfied that is covered as is stated in the Bill. I think it was Deputy Ó Snodaigh who mentioned that priority...

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

Darragh O'Brien: There are just two amendments fágtha. They are amendments Nos. 430 and 432, which were tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh and which relate to the publication of notices relating to development plans, which is a matter that may be provided for under section 10 of the Official Languages Act. I get the point, and I have asked my officials to review this matter...

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

Darragh O'Brien: We have had a good discussion here and, in fairness, I think people can see that there is no easy way to approach some elements of this on the housing side. We had an issue a few years ago in one of the Gaeltachtaí whereby a family moved in and there was a Gaelscoil, a scoil lán-Ghaeilge, and they had no Irish. A case was taken to court to insist that the child spoke English, and...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I appreciate what Deputy O'Callaghan has said. We will come back to the matter on Report Stage.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 32: In page 36, to delete lines 26 to 28 and substitute the following: “ “unauthorised development” means, in relation to land or a maritime site— (a) unauthorised works (including the construction, erection or assembly of an unauthorised structure), or (b) an unauthorised use;”.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 33: In page 36, to delete lines 29 to 38, and in page 37, to delete lines 1 to 17 and substitute the following: “ “unauthorised structure” means a structure on, in, over or under land or a maritime site, other than— (a) exempted development, (b) development carried out in accordance with— (i) a permission granted under Part IV...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 34: In page 37, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “ “waste water discharge licence” means a licence under the Waste Water Discharge (Authorisation) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 684 of 2007);”.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies. As they have mentioned, the amendment seeks to reinsert provisions similar to section 1A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 which lists the EU laws and international conventions that are given effect or further effect by the Bill. This Bill already includes the relevant provisions where a provision is to give effect to EU law. For example, section 180 states...

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

Darragh O'Brien: The directives were added to the Planning and Development Act 2000 retrospectively. They were only added to that legislation in 2010 because many of the directives came post the passing of the Bill in 1999, moving into 2000. Those directives are now in place and have been incorporated right the way through this legislation. The very clear advice from the Attorney General's Office was that...

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

Darragh O'Brien: For the advice of members, the relevant directives are referenced within the Bill. Anything that is relevant to the planning Bill-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: -----is referenced within it.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the point, but I do not want to tell the Deputy that all 14 are there when I do not have that exact information.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I am telling the Deputy any relevant directive is referenced very clearly within the Bill and we can get that clarified. I appreciate it but am not accepting the amendment, so I am not going to say any more.

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

Darragh O'Brien: To explain it basically, the first reason is that the relevant directives are all within the Bill. When someone is reading a section it makes more sense to have it in the relevant section of the Bill. It says "here is the directive" and sets out how it interacts with our legislation. The other point that was made was around listing it in tabular form like a general provision. Let us...

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

Darragh O'Brien: No. As the Chair has raised, in some areas the table lists and numbers the EU directives and in others it does not. If someone wants to table an amendment on that on Report Stage, that is fine but we will not accept it. It is better that the directives are referenced within the sections of the Bill where they are relevant. For fear of repeating that over and over again, that is the...

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 say that.

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

Darragh O'Brien: To be helpful, all relevant directives are in the Bill.