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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I appreciate the point the Deputy is making. At the outset of section 42, it is stated "A planning authority shall prepare a strategy for the sustainable development and regeneration of the functional area". Section 42(2)(a) refers to "the prioritisation of ... measures to facilitate compact urban development, including the development and renewal of lands or sites within existing developed...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: If there is a planning authority that does not have a rural area-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Section 42(2)(d) states "the regulation of development, including the setting of appropriate development management policies and standards, for the purposes of promoting sustainable use of land, sustainable rural development". That is as it applies to local authorities that have rural areas.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It states "of appropriate development ... policies". If it is not appropriate for that authority by virtue of the fact it does not have a rural area-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is in section 42(2)(d), "the regulation of development, including the setting of appropriate ... management policies". It says appropriate to the local area.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Exactly, I love that word. In short, yes. We covered this in detail when we discussed the issues around adjoining local authorities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is well catered for.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 394 concerns the obligation that such strategies include objectives, among others, for the promotion of compliance with environmental standards in relation to water quality and status, having regard to the water framework directive. Amendment No. 394 seeks to replace “promotion” here with “the control of measures”.The Bill as drafted is appropriate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We could look at this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, I see that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Under section 42, concerning the obligation to prepare a strategy for sustainable development and regeneration, section 42(2)(b) refers to the provision, or facilitation of the provision, of sustainable integrated transport, public transport and road traffic systems,including appropriate parking provision, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, air and sea transport, and the promotion of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, absolutely. I referenced this in terms of the obligations to prepare a strategy. The preparation of a strategy, however, also involves looking back at the progress of previous plans. Quite an amount of scoping work must take place in the preparation of the new plan, in developing the new plan, in setting out the context of it and where the city or county stands at a given time in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will read the note and point to some other elements in the Bill that might expand on this provision and give clarification as to the role of local authorities in terms of co-operation. Amendment No. 303 seeks to remove the reference in the provision concerning the co-ordination of objectives between adjoining planning authorities in their development plans to it being done "insofar as is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will not accept the amendment but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: This amendment relates to section 51, which sets out the consultation process with the Office of the Planning Regulator before the preparation of a draft development plan by a local authority. It seeks to amend section 51(2), which sets out what should be contained in a development plan review report furnished to the OPR, and to provide that it should contain an overview of transport...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: As a Statutory Consultee under the Planning and Development Acts, my Department made observations to Dublin City Council on 12 February 2024 within the relevant consultation period in relation to the Part 8 development for Martin Savage Park (Application reference 5032/23). My Department's observations are accessible in the public domain on the Dublin City Council planning portal which can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 226 together. Under Article 82(3)(n) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, the Minister with responsibility for Heritage is notified of a proposed development where it appears to the authority that the development might have significant effects in relation to nature conservation. The National Parks and Wildlife Service...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 438: In page 113, lines 19 and 20, to delete “which shall take due account of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1)”. These amendments are of a minor technical and drafting nature. As mentioned earlier, there has been a process of continual refinement applied to the Bill by officials at my Department working intensively with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 439: In page 113, line 30, to delete “paragraph (a)” and substitute “paragraph (b)”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It was discussed with amendment No. 30.