Results 24,501-24,520 of 26,185 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: In line with the first-step principle, we will get a note from our housing section about who exactly can apply and qualify to be an approved housing body. I will come back to the Deputy as to whether the údarás qualifies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the first step in that regard. On amendment No. 619, under the current guidelines, names should be related to the local area. That is the intention. There is no particular requirement for them to be in Irish. It is something we will consider in the new planning guidelines we are bringing out for Gaeltacht areas. I take the Deputy's point. On amendment No. 1111, I will once...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Many of the new estates are named in Irish now.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that from 2022?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I read those guidelines earlier.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: To take the latter point on the B2 level, the Department of the Gaeltacht is the expert on competency in that area. It has made us aware that B2 level is what it is accepting but that may change. It has to come through. It goes back to what will have a practical impact, which is the planning regulations to be brought out specifically for the Gaeltacht areas. The most important thing is to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that in January of this year?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome that report and note the point raised by Deputy Ó Snodaigh. Everything is about balance but I very much take his point on board. He put flesh on the bones of the points articulated by Deputy O'Callaghan. I also take on board the points about the deliberations on the regulations from the Department of tourism. We should let it work in that area.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is purposely why I stopped. It is at the behest of members.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am open to-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is very much up to the local authority but we will be encouraging local authorities in that regard. That is one such area. Anything like a planning application that is in train at the moment will be assessed under the 2000 Act. The one area which will provide change is the tiered system. If one has a development plan for a local authority and that development plan comes up for review...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will repeat the note on it and then we can go back on it. Amendment No. 61 can be considered supplemental to amendment No. 1002 as it provides that where development has commenced in respect of a notice issued under subsection (1) of section 59 or subsection (2) of section 60 of the Act of 2000, the development will be exempted development for the purposes of the enacted Bill, once the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: We can look at amendment No. 188 again and provide that level of certainty on the timing in that specific national planning statement. Second, the intention is that the national planning statements are-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 529 is tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny and Cian O’Callaghan. It relates to section 66 of the Bill and the transitional arrangements for a development plan made under the Planning and Development Act 2000 so that it continues in force following the repeal of that Act. Under section 66(3), the Minister of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are always unforeseen issues.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: No. That is not the intention.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: It really depends on the plan. Covid taught us that we need flexibility around plans. We must provide some flexibility in that area. If a development plan was to run for quite a number of years from now, this would not arise. I expect it will apply to very few plans. If a plan was to come to a conclusion in a relatively short period of time, there might be a case for extending the plan....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, that is possible. The Deputy is correct; if a plan is coming to an end-----