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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. It has just to do it, as needed. For example, it is for emergency situations such as field hospitals, etc., in terms of Covid and so on. So I think that is the element behind it.

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

Malcolm Noonan: No. I mentioned Covid specifically. I think it is even the establishment of field hospitals as well.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I do not think so.

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

Malcolm Noonan: No, not if a state of emergency was declared. Again, it is military hospitals and issues around security and an emergency and State security. All of those are kinds of examples of where it might be relevant.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Building regulations, for instance.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. That will still be the case, yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I will make just a few points to clarify that. It refers to public development only, not to private development, and they are allowed to bypass, under the EIA directive.

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

Malcolm Noonan: The EIA directive. These are emergency measures. There also remains a notification procedure but that the development would be exempt from normal processes or consultations. It would still absolutely adhere development or buildings regulations. Again, as we stated in the examples, they are specifically for emergency measures.

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

Malcolm Noonan: No.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It was just a drafting error. That is the reason behind it.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is to delete a duplicated definition.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: To reiterate, both of those amendments are a minor reordering, or editing, of existing text for clarity and consistency.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: That amendment will add a definition for a draft special planning control scheme to Chapter 2, so it is deliberate, from an operational point of view, to include it at that point.

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

Malcolm Noonan: The definition of "architectural conservation area" is found in other sections as well, as I understand.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 and 216 together. The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss (CABL) was convened as a commitment in the Programme for Government, in recognition of the vital role that biodiversity plays in the continued health of our society, economy, species and planet. The Assembly agreed 159 recommendations, including 73 high level and 86 sectoral specific...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Naval Service (8 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The future use of naval vessels currently in service or that have been decommissioned is a matter for the Department of Defence. My Department would of course consider any request by the Department of Defence to assist with undertaking a heritage feasibility study. It should be noted that the primary responsibility of my Department in relation to maritime heritage (under the National...