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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I just want to get to the intent. We will come back to this on Report Stage. I note the point the Deputy has made. The Deputy also made reference to the development plans. Section 47 of the Bill refers to the “Obligation to prepare strategy relating to environment and climate change”. Section 47(2) states: The strategy shall include objectives relating to: (a) the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The grouping also contains amendment No. 596 in the names of Deputies Duffy, O'Callaghan and Ó Broin and amendment No. 612 in the name of Deputy Ó Broin. Amendment No. 366, which is Deputy Duffy’s amendment, and amendments Nos. 596 and 612 relate to whole-life carbon emissions. This is a complex area that is, from a data point of view, at an early stage of development,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: If we look at the sections that deal with development plans, it is explicit under the low carbon Act. Section 19 deals with the national planning framework. I am just making a normal observation that we need to look at it and we will come back to it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is also section 19(2)(f).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: When the officials handed me the committee's report on embodied carbon, I looked at the recommendations. The second recommendations contains the phrase "that the Department prioritise the preparatory work for measuring embodied carbon to ensure that once EU proposals are agreed there won’t be delays". I like things to be measured. It is the accountant in me. Our Department, as the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will begin with Deputy Duffy's point. Deputy Ó Broin referred to my level of understanding. I look at this in pretty straightforward terms. Embodied carbon is a large element of dealing with reducing carbon emissions, but to do this properly we must come with the metrics for it. Departmental officials are actively working on this. I have spoken to them about this in my role. Work...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Which number is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Which number is it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is the Deputy's earlier amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 614 is a combination of amendments Nos. 612 and 613. We oppose amendment No. 612 on the same principle as we oppose amendment No. 366.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will read the note and then go back. Amendment No. 613 is effectively the same as amendment No. 614.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is the same point. Amendment No. 613 seeks to place an additional condition on planning applications “requiring the development to have regard to the ratio of infrastructure to buildings and homes to ensure a more efficient use of infrastructure and associated emissions". However, we believe this is covered at the wider plan-making stage through the zoning of land for various...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: At government level, under the climate action Act, each local authority is legally required to produce a climate action plan. All local authorities are doing that and they are across various different areas. I have seen some of the draft plans. It is unfair to say that local authorities are not required to have any account of climate; they are through the climate action plans. I refer to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: May I make a brief additional comment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Currently the Department is carrying out work with the SEAI to come up with a measurement of embodied carbon, which is very important. That policy has not been fully settled yet. Once that review is done and if it proposes including it in planning legislation, the Minister whoever it is, will look at it at that point. Certainly, if I were the Minister, I would be looking at it at that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendments Nos. 142 and 143 by Deputies Cian O’Callaghan, Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny, respectively, seek to insert reference to air quality management. Amendment No. 153 tabled by Deputy Matthews seeks to insert reference to ecological status of water bodies, both respectively with regards to the making of the national planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Chair wish for me to respond?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: What number is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are we discussing amendments Nos. 420 and 893. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will address all three because they have common themes. I dealt with them in the initial overview on the sections. I have accepted that they are matters we will look at on Report Stage.