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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: No.

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

Malcolm Noonan: All the processes outlined in the Bill are compliant with the Aarhus Convention. That is a key principle of the review of the Planning and Development Act 2000. Deputy Ó Broin is correct in terms of the four-week consultation period; it provides time to put it all together. In terms of publication, section 32(4) states that "A regional spatial and economic strategy, or a revision of...

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is section 32, which modifies the procedure under section 24 of the Act.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is eight weeks for a judicial review.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is from publication.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is from publication.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, from publication of the notice.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Is given effect.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. Is that okay?

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

Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 276, 277 and 278, tabled by Deputy Matthews, seek to amend section 33 of the Bill concerning implementation and monitoring of regional spatial and economic strategies, which provide that a regional assembly prepare a monitoring report in respect of the implementation of the regional spatial and economic strategy every four years. Amendment No. 276 seeks to reduce this...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Was this for development plans?

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

Malcolm Noonan: Was it for regional strategies?

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: The main reason is that the development plan process is going out to a ten-year period. The RSES will be in effect for a period of more than ten years but not more than 20. There are longer time periods for plans. The time required to compile those review cycles is important. It gives a longer timespan to monitor and evaluate progress on the implementation of the strategies. That is not...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 279, tabled by Deputy Steven Matthews, seeks to amend section 35(3), which requires the director of a regional assembly, in carrying out any screening for strategic environmental assessment or appropriate assessment of an amendment of a regional spatial and economic strategy with a view to avoiding duplication of assessments, to take account of the fact and content of any...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Deputy Ó Broin provided a good example in respect of Athlone. It is the case that that can be dealt with on an administrative basis. What the Deputy has outlined would only apply in very rare cases. There would be a designation of a principal local authority set out as a principal regional assembly. We do not see a need to provide for it. The regional assembly in which the principal...

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

Malcolm Noonan: They are generally dealt with by agreement of the regional assembly. It can be done on a case-by-case basis. It would require a resolution to be passed at regional assembly level.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I am not sure if there have been cases where there has been disagreement. I do not think there have.