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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (17 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken and considerations made in respect of limiting the impact on cetaceans in Irish waters from NATO exercises such as operation dynamic mongoose in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44140/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Naval Service (17 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 359. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the information his Department holds on the widely reported operations of a vessel (details supplied) and associated submarine activity in Irish waters and use of sonar around 27 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Use of Sonar in Irish Waters (17 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 364. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if contact has been made by other naval services with Irish authorities ion the use of sonar in Irish waters in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44138/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Irish Territorial Waters (17 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 366. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the information his Department or the Defence Forces, including the Air Corps and Naval Service, hold on the incursion into or close to Irish waters and the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone, and territorial waters of vessels, crafts, including submarine vessels belonging to naval services of other nations, during the period 1 April to 31 October...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Irish Territorial Waters (17 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 367. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the information his Department or the Defence Forces hold on the widely reported operations of a vessel (details supplied) in or around 27 July 2020 in Irish waters; if he will provide such information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44143/20]

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am fully aware that we have only four minutes to respond. This is a matter of profound importance and the fact that we have only four minutes to raise questions and get responses from the Minister shows how inadequate this process is. I will use my two minutes before allowing my colleague on the upper floor to use his. I have two questions. The...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister said in his comment that the board, when considering the substantive substitute consent application, will base its assessment on the exceptional circumstances outlined in section 177D(2) of the Act. Why is that not made explicit in his amendment?

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I refer to the Minister's proposed section 177K(1A)(a), which deals with consideration of the substantive substitute consent application. It does not make explicit reference to the legal definition of exceptional circumstances in the existing section 177D(2) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be helpful.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 21: In subsection (1D), proposed to be inserted by section 6, between paragraphs (b) and (c) to insert the following: “(ba) make available online all information— (i) considered by the Board at any leave stage under section 177D for the application now being considered for substitute consent where the application was subject to such...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "(3) When making an order under subsection (2), the Government shall include as a schedule to that order, or otherwise publish at the same time— (a) the reasons and considerations for the making of the order under subsection (2),including reasons in respect of all the considerations listed in...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 4, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: "(ii) an emergency period in respect of the provisions of the Principal Act and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, and any instrument under the foregoing, so as to provide for a uniform and fair approach, with the exception of the potential to provide for different...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, to delete lines 22 to 25.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 4, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(4) Where an order under subsection (2) specifies emergency periods under subsection (3)(b)(i) or subsection (3)(b)(ii), or both, in making the order the Government shall also consider— (a) the likely interest of the public in the administrative area for which the order is made, in...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 4, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(4) In the context of the practical challenges the public are likely to be encountering during the period necessitating the making of the order under subsection (2), the Government in making decisions on the specifications of emergency periods under subsection (3) shall— (a) make...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. On first reading the Bill and after listening to the debate in the Seanad, the circumstances in which the Minister was intending to use these powers were not quite clear, but having discussed it with his officials there are, in principle, two key areas where the powers outlined in the sections of the Bill to which these amendments relate could be used....

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 17, to delete “appropriate” and substitute “essential”. Amendments Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive, relate to section 3 of the Bill, and specifically to powers being given to the Minister to extend emergency periods applying, for example, to planning decisions of a local authority or An Bord Pleanála or, indeed, public...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: If this was only an emergency measure to deal with the difficulties of holding public meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic, I would support it. I am clear on the fact that it only relates to the holding of meetings at the very early, pre-plan stage. I make my comments in that context. The permanency of the Minister's proposed measures is a mistake, which is why Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two technical questions for the Minister. Can I take it from his explanation of amendment No. 16 and its relationship to the definition in amendment No. 2 that the changing of the wording in amendment No. 16 is purely typographical as opposed to having substantive significance? In effect, the Act of 2020 is indeed the Health (Preservation and Protection and Other Emergency Measures...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: To clarify, the group includes amendments Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, 16 to 18, inclusive, and 29 and 30. Should the Minister address all those before we raise queries? That might be easier if that is the grouping.