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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: At the outset, I point out there has already been significant discussion in regard to the Irish language and Gaeltacht areas. More than 160 amendments have been discussed to date in regard to the Irish language and Gaeltacht matters as they relate to national planning statements, national planning policy statements, development plans and planning applications. This group deals with a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will address amendments Nos. 228 and 231, tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh, and amendment No. 235, tabled by Deputies O’Callaghan and Ó Cathasaigh, which relate to regional spatial and economic strategies. Amendments No. 228 and 231 seek to amend section 26 to include an objective in a strategy supporting the viability of any Gaeltacht communities...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I did.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 254.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Just amendment No. 254, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 292 and 293.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 239 jointly tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Smith, Kenny and O’Callaghan seeks to amend a matter in respect of which regional spatial economic strategy must include provision for the preservation and protection of the environment and its amenities, including the archeological, architectural and natural heritage of the region, to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In that context we will. It is important that we do.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We use the term restoration primarily with regard to nature. Over the course of the past couple of years in particular, we have seen how it has become an essential component of biodiversity policy. Restoration of historic and heritage buildings is already embodied in the national architecture policy and other policies and strategies from our Department and others. We separately have the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 240, tabled by Deputy Duffy, seeks a similar amendment to expand the scope to include enhancement of the environment, as well as preservation and protection. While I cannot accept the amendment, I give a commitment to look at the other wording as per previous amendments. We will give consideration to it. It is not necessarily further expansion but it is different from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 241 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh seeks to amend section 27 of the Bill which concerns the content of regional spatial and economic strategies, RSESs. The Bill provides that an RSES shall make provision for a number of specified matters, which include the preservation and protection of the environment and its amenities, including the archaeological,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In a similar vein, amendment No. 243 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh seeks to include a reference to historic landscapes in section 27(1)(m). The subsection as drafted provides that an RSES shall make provision for a strategy relating to landscape and landscape character that co-ordinates the categorisation of landscapes in terms of their capacity to absorb...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 245, tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Smith, Kenny and O’Callaghan, seeks to amend section 27(1)(n)(iv). This section, as drafted, provides that a strategy relating to economic matters would include, among other things, identification of the means of maintaining and augmenting overall regional economic performance in accordance with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I have two points in response. I did say that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, would look at amendments Nos. 151 and 154. The wording of amendment No. 154 is the "promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations and monitoring them within the life of the plan"....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We will give consideration to it, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree. We have given that commitment both on amendment No. 154, by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and to see if wording could be included in section 27 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, I agree wholeheartedly, and it is not too dissimilar to the conversation we had earlier about cultural space. All of this is important. Good planning should lead to good outcomes and well-being for people. It should not be about the development of units. It has to be about place-making and creative and safe spaces for people of all ages. That includes how we design our public...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 249 seeks to prescribe an additional matter in respect of which a regional spatial and economic strategy must provide for, being a strategy relating to cultural matters. As I already stated in response to amendment No. 241, I do not consider this amendment to be required or necessary and, as such, I will not be accepting it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 266 seeks to amend section 30 concerning the process for the preparation or revision of regional spatial and economic strategies to include a requirement that such preparation, making or revision must be subject to an assessment in respect of its effect on water quality of water bodies in the region, in respect of requirements under Article 4 of the water framework directive....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 250 seeks to amend section 27 concerning the content of regional spatial and economic strategies and specifically in relation to the inclusion of integrated land use and transportation strategy in respect of city and metropolitan areas, where relevant. For this purpose, metropolitan area of a city is defined as the area consisting of the city and its surrounding area...