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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I should have said something else on the amendment. I am sorry for interrupting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On the amendment, I understand what it involves. I just wonder why it is in this grouping. I should have mentioned that because I would have questioned that as well. It is because the Deputy's amendment would amend the same line in the Government's amendment No. 186 to provide that national planning statement, NPS, so that is the reason it is in this grouping. I should have clarified that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will remind the Deputy of that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My amendment goes further than that. It states that the " Minister shall, on publication ..., bring a motion to both Houses of the Oireachtas seeking to refer the National Planning Statement". It is not just about consultation; this is actually bringing the Oireachtas in to the affirmation-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not. Deputy Ó Broin is. I am opposing what he is saying. I do not want to interrupt. I am just saying-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This is not about consultation with an Oireachtas joint committee. What Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh are proposing is that for every national planning statement a motion, post its publication but before its adoption, would go to the Dáil and Seanad. Does the motion go for debate? I assume from the examples Deputy Ó Broin made reference to that it would go to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will find out.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will check it out. That was raised previously.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is 30-something but we will get the Deputy the exact number.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: What I have said is I will look at the Oireachtas joint committee elements. Deputy Ó Broin's amendment goes a lot further than that and he has acknowledged that. It would require a motion before the Dáil for referral to the Oireachtas committee. The Oireachtas committee then would make its considerations, propose amendments and then that would come back, as amended, to the Houses...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We have discussed it appropriately.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is the Deputy referring to section 21?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are on section 21.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am trying to find out what the Deputy is referring to. That is all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Talk to your buddies.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are trying to move on from that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I want to get the question though because I do not know what the Deputy is asking.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Right.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision of social and affordable housing has been an absolute priority for myself and any future government will bring forward its housing plan in relation to delivery. For the first time, every local authority has exact targets and plans for all tenures of housing and that will be carried forward. There is the implementation of Government plans and the investment that is required to...