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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: These are defined places and there are not hundreds of them but 16, which I have just gone through. One would absolutely expect the Department to have regard to them in any event. It certainly should, and it will. Language development plans and plans for the language, that is, not development plans from a planning perspective, are also in place and they are clearly defined, as are the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: But that is something that by way of regulation-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I do want to get clarification for the Deputy. We will look at that by way of the regulations as well because I do want to make sure that those who should be consulted are consulted. The point I am making is that if you are a language planning officer in a local authority in any of those areas, you will know where your líonraí Gaeilge are and you will know what you are responsible...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can move his amendment and that is absolutely fine. It is fully up to him but I am saying that I will come back to him prior to Report Stage and will report back on those. He can resubmit it on Report Stage if he wishes but I will have a more detailed response on it there. There is some merit in what has been put forward by Deputies and I would like to see if we can meet them in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot accept them right now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No, I know that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No. The regulations themselves that stand up the Bill and its operation will be very important too. They do allow the flexibility to amend them into the future if there is a wish. I will come back to the Deputy prior to Report Stage. I am just saying as it stands today, I am not in a position to accept these as they are now. There are potential risks with their being that prescriptive as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: What else? Sorry, Deputy, I do not mean to interrupt, but think outside the Gaeltacht issue. What else could we or should we be prescribing across the board? That is all I am saying.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I know what the Deputy is saying but, as I have said already, the subsection says “such other bodies (including, where appropriate, a regional assembly of an adjoining region)”. It is very open to that and I think the best place for it is the regulations. That is all I am saying.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I think -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It will be taken as a given due the definition of a Gaeltacht. We will check it for the Deputy, but it would be. We looked at that earlier in the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is State funded.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I get the point. We will come back to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Generally, it is. I am trying to think of another one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My official tells me it goes back to the 1963 Act. It is an historical issue relating to An Taisce. We can provide a little more detail. I am trying to think of another body.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will send the Deputy the regulation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I get the Deputy's point, but what I am being told is that it is an historical issue that goes back to a 1963 Act. I do not know the genesis of that so I will not pretend I do, but we will get the information and it can be assessed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is important. We want consultation, particularly in Gaeltacht areas and where there are growing towns, so we must ensure that happens. We are also saying that any other relevant body can be consulted. That is the difference between prescribed and on the regulation front. We will look at it and we will get some clarification around An Taisce.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Does the Deputy want An Taisce out?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is Ireland's National Trust or something.