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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I presume so, yes. Under the heading "Mandatory objective: Gaeltacht Areas", it states: "That development proposals in Gaeltacht areas have a positive impact on the linguistic and cultural heritage that can be robustly assessed at planning application stage".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The problem is that this is not happening in practice. The vast majority of these Irish language amendments arise from past failures of local authorities. We are looking for these measures to be in legislation rather than in guidelines because legislation has a higher status. That would allow communities to go to court if the provisions are not complied with. In fact, quite a number of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will go back to the question about short-term letting. I will give the Minister of State the report. The problem with Irish language news is that most people do not read it and it does not get carried in the English media. On 18 January, Pádraic Ó Ciardha of Tuairisc.ieproduced a report-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes. I will give the Minister of State a copy of the article. That is no problem. His report was on the number of holiday homes in local electoral areas in Gaeltacht areas. It is absolutely scary. In Baile an Sceilg, 55% of homes are holiday homes. He goes all the way through every region. In Ros Goill, the figure is 58%. These homes are not available to the local community. They may...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the amendment is put, we will not finish at 1 p.m. because a vote will be called.

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Níl muinín ag pobal na hÉireann in RTÉ, faraor. Ní raibh muinín ag pobal na Gaeilge in RTÉ riamh. I bhfad sular tháinig an cur amú dochreidte airgid chun solais anuraidh, bhí daoine ann a dhiúltaigh ceadúnas teilifíse a íoc toisc go raibh RTÉ ag brú an Béarla amháin ar mhuintir na hÉireann seachas...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Creidim gur píosa reachtaíochta rí-thábhachtach atá anseo agus, mar a dúirt mo chara díreach romham, tá fadhbanna bunúsacha ann. Ní hé go bhfuilimid ag cur ina choinne ach ní fiú reachtaíocht a rith anseo ar an nós seo maidir le trácht sa chathair seo nó...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the language of instruction in each primary school, the full complement of teachers each school should have; the number of current vacancies in teaching posts at the school; and the number of unqualified teachers employed to fill teaching posts at the school, in columns, in tabular form. [6098/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Limistéir Pleanála Teanga (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 361. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén ról atá ag an Roinn maidir le tacú le Gaeltacht Thuaisceart an Oileáin Úir i gCeanada, cén maoiniú atá tugtha ag an Rialtas don togra gach bliain ó bunaíodh é in 2007, agus an ndéanfaidh sí cur síos ar na torthaí atá bainte amach aige.; agus...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what form of redress is available to former residents of an institution (details supplied). [6586/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether the unfair exclusion of an institution (details supplied) in County Wicklow from the residential institutions redress scheme which the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry highlighted was due to the fact that the State acted in a sectarian manner (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 575. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a surgical procedure rescheduled in Tallaght Hospital. [6232/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 3: In page 27, line 30, to delete “ “Chief Planning Commissioner” ” and substitute “ “Príomh Choimisinéir Pleanála” ”. It would be much easier if we changed the rules of the House in order that with amendments such as these, one could put a single amendment at the start containing the phrase...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can understand what the Minister of State says. We have all been under pressure to deal with amendments and to address them here today given the rush to ensure that our planning legislation is intact and correct. Some of these amendments are quite simple and they are not contentious. They are in line with the legislation. I could understand if the Minister of State said there is no need...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If I were to be consistent, I would have to allow the Minister of State the time to go back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel because that is what I have done on other occasions. In some cases, a Minister or Minister of State has come back quite favourably disposed. In other cases, though, they have not done so on Report Stage. In the Seanad, then, the Bill would be changed again....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can understand if the Minister of State needs to go to the principal aistritheoir in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is the man who is in charge of grammar for all of us who struggle with grammar, and it does not matter in what language. He can tell the Minister of State if my version of the different titles is correct, such as that of the "Príomh Choimisinéir Pleanála",...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to this issue on Report Stage if the Minister of State does not. It will be early enough on Report Stage. There is no extra cost involved in doing it. This is the luxury of it. A whole new planning system is being set up, so we can get it right from the get-go. We did not get it right with Irish Water. It is now Uisce Éireann. That organisation has had to change...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. 1003 will insert a definition on page 481. I have no problem with it but I find it odd that we would put a definition in this Chapter rather than at the start of the Bill where the other definitions are. The section in question also deals with special conservation areas, but the definition for that is at the start of the Bill with all the other definitions. Why does it appear...