Results 1,121-1,140 of 26,228 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, if there is a five-year permission, it will be known from within the context of that permission. The local authority will have an idea of how long, typically, it will take to build what is provided for under the permission and the yield over the years. Therefore, the meaning of this text will really come down to looking at the scale of the planning permissions and how long it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would hope they might be a bit more granular than that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. I refer to looking to local authorities going down through this context. Some of them are already doing this. I would have thought it would not be an onerous exercise to go in and look.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 10 of the existing development plan deals with this. Within that Act, it was amended for the climate action plans under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. It makes it more structured. It is, in essence, the same content as section 10 of the current Act. It just lays it out quite directly. It is a more structured reorganisation of what is currently in section 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We may need to update the references.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I think the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, already gave-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----a commitment that we would go back to the OPC about the correct reference. It references the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 but that was updated by the 2021 Act. We have committed to going back and looking at that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: This section relates specifically to environment and climate change. Deputy Ó Broin is well aware that a substantive amount of legislation in that area has been brought in by the Government, which has updated the development Act itself. It is not a question that we are coming to something where there has been a vacuum for many years; it is quite the reverse. There has been a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We are going to go back. That commitment was given by my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have grouped the Government amendments, Nos. 405, 406, 415 and 416. Amendments Nos. 399, 404, 408, 409, 412 and 413 are grouped together. They are all Sinn Féin amendments. We grouped amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive, 407 and 414. There are, effectively, two groupings for Opposition amendments and one for Government amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not have a huge amount to read out, and the amendments are grouped. With the members' indulgence, I will go through them. Is that okay?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: To recap on the amendments, there is amendment No. 399. What is the second one?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy is including amendment No. 409 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 409 is in the Deputy's group, actually.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. Sorry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. That is correct. I will now address amendments Nos. 399, 404, 408, 409, 412 and 413, tabled jointly by Deputies Eoin Ó Broin, Thomas Gould and Aengus Ó Snodaigh. Amendment No. 399 seeks to amend section 48 regarding the obligation to prepare a strategy for the conservation of natural and built heritage as part of a development plan. The amendment requires that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: They are all covered in that then.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just by way of additional information, to date, the officials have identified eight Report Stage amendments as a result of reference to the historic and archaeological heritage Acts that we-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a timing issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.