Results 20,661-20,680 of 26,350 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Exactly that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No. It is not consequent to that. I will give a real-life example because the Deputy asked for it and it might be of assistance.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: For example, if the OPR recommends a course of action to include or not include something in a plan direction and that was not previously subject to an AA or SEA, that would be a real-life example of when this provision would kick in.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No, absolutely not.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 172: In page 63, to delete lines 24 to 27 and substitute the following: “(8) A failure to comply with subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 20 and subsection (6) within the time period specified therein shall not of itself invalidate the National Planning Framework.”. These amendments relate to Part 3 of the Bill and the provisions relating to the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Why?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely. If for some reason the timeframe could not be met in the preparation - that could be as a result of another pandemic, Covid or whatever - it would apply in that instance. It is the same provision that was in the 2000 Act, as the Deputy correctly said. It is simply saying that that cannot be the sole reason.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: To answer the Deputy's second question, it could form part of a wider challenge to it with other reasons that would be put forward but not in itself only.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It will not in any way, shape or form provide, let us say, that there will not be a challenge to shrink the public consultation period or anything like that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Very simply, if, for whatever reason in the preparation of these detailed plans, there was a delay or, for argument's sake, an additional consultation with stakeholders was required, that could not be the sole reason to bring about a challenge. As I said, it could form part of an overall challenge. This allows for the co-ordination of timelines between different and related plans, for...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Deputy mean subsection (3) of section 20 or 21?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: As I said to Deputy Ó Broin, it sets it out in the review of the national planning framework there. We are on section 21. Is the Deputy referring to section 21(3), which states, "The National Planning Framework shall be subject to" the strategic environmental assessment regulations or SEAs? I do not think that is what he is referring to.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: As I said in response to Deputy Ó Broin, this is very simply to bring forward a provision that already exists in the 2000 Act and update the language used. There is a slight change in the text to remove any doubt around that. It states: "Each subsequent review shall be completed before the expiry of a period of 2 years, which period shall begin on the second occurrence...". The...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will respond briefly. I am conscious that this was discussed at length in the context of the position with national planning statements and the view of some that they should go before the Dáil. The view of Government is that they should not, but I want to respond. This has been very clearly debated and articulated. The fundamental point is that these are policy statements and that...