Results 22,561-22,580 of 26,350 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will touch on this briefly as there has been a good discussion on the community gardens today and some good points made. I do not want to disappoint Deputy Healy-Rae but there is no conspiracy theory. If he looks at how the amendment is worded, it is not in priority terms, it is actually listed alphabetically with cyclists, pedestrians-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: You could, but I know the way you would spin it. To be honest-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----cyclists is "C", pedestrians, public transport and road traffic, so they are in alphabetical order, not in order of priority. I know Deputy Healy-Rae will be down in Kerry and will be spinning this yarn that this is what it is trying to do-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I know what he will do but the fact is, and just for the record of the House, it is listed in alphabetical order. Let us not try to spin it in any other way. I am just saying that that is what it is. I am sure Deputy Matthews will absolutely confirm that, generally speaking, this is how they are listed. I would not underestimate the significance of the inclusion of community gardens in...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I had not realised that earlier.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: This is very important legislation. Although we are having this back-and-forth, this is once-in-a-generation legislation to reform our planning system. Deputy McGrath said earlier that it was rushed. That is absolute nonsense. We have gone through the legislation with the Chairman of the Oireachtas joint committee, and we had 223 hours-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Not at all. Would you stop? We would have a lot more time if-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Most of the Deputies here, whether in opposition or in government, have taken the process seriously and have gone to the trouble of tabling amendments. They are speaking to the amendments that are pertinent to the legislation.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I want to address Deputy Matthews specifically because he raised an important point on climate action. Amendment No. 549 deletes the reference to the climate Act in section 86. That was agreed with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications as part of the amendments on climate. We are working through this and there has been really good engagement. Amendment No. 549, in...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 114: In page 62, line 33, to delete "means," and substitute "means".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 115: In page 63, line 10, to delete "(as read with subsection (9) of that section)".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 116: In page 63, line 11, to delete "local community development committee" and substitute "Local Community Development Committee".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 117: In page 63, to delete lines 20 to 22 and substitute the following: " "metropolitan area strategic plan" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of section 29;".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 118: In page 63, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: " "National Biodiversity Action Plan" has the same meaning as it has in section 59A of the ;".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 119: In page 63, line 25, to delete "identified and".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 120: In page 63, lines 29 and 30, to delete "identified and".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 121: In page 63, line 38, to delete "context" and substitute "case".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 122: In page 64, line 3, to delete "(as read with subsection (3) of that section)".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have six minutes left.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Was there something going on?