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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I can understand the point that is being put forward. However, if we used clearer language in the Bill, it would simply be "maritime area". It would have that consistency. There is no rationale as to why that language would be used for development and different language would be used for unauthorised development. Even if there is just a small chance of opening up any possibility of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am concerned that under amendment No. 33, there are several references to "maritime site". On page 31, there are definitions of "maritime site" and "maritime area". It is very clear that unauthorised use of a maritime site is only part of the maritime area, so why would the legislation seek to limit this? Why would we open up the possibility of someone saying "you are saying this is an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the grouping or on the amendment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Please explain what it means to get rid of these provisions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So for an emergency development the State does not have to do a public notice. Is that the implication of this deletion?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My recollection is that the rationale for the original text of sections 152 and 154 is because these are emergency provisions and these are your safeguard procedures. While the State has the power and ability to do that then it is a safeguard that it would notify the local authority. That would mean then the local authority is aware of what is happening and it obviously then has a function...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Then there are circumstances in some countries, jurisdictions or areas where everything comes under state security and there could be a clampdown on democratic norms and stuff that come under state security, saying, "We have to build this wall because of state security. We have to separate people living in this jurisdiction by building this infrastructure" and we cite state security. That...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 28, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “ “competent in the Irish language” means spoken competency at level B2 at least of Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge;”. The amendment relates to a definition and makes sense with respect to the other amendments I have tabled regarding the Irish language. It will insert a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What time are we finishing?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will wait a moment as the Minister is in conversation with his officials.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. I will speak to those amendments. Amendment No. 440, for example, is about the notice of intention to review a development plan in preparation of a development plan. Other amendments relate to making a development plan and variation of a development plan and concern the correspondence to be sent and discussed. I am seeking to update the language in the Bill such that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate the Minister’s response but the legislation is quite prescriptive as it is and this is not covered in regulations. It is quite clear. Planning authority should give a copy of a notice under subsection (12) and then lists who gets it. My amendments are trying to make sure the prescriptive legislation is effectively correct in it prescribes-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My amendments are Nos. 368, 894 and 899. Amendment No. 894 is about housing strategy. It seeks to ensure that housing strategy in Gaeltacht communities would have regard to the need to protect the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Irish language in the Gaeltacht communities. It is an absolute disaster in terms of planning when we have a physiotherapist living out of a van in a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will come in on my amendments Nos. 343, 351 and 385. I will start on amendment No. 385 because it is almost similar to the ones we were discussing. This is an amendment to delete the wording on Gaeltacht areas and replace it with more up-to-date language reflecting Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012, which sets out the structure for the language planning process and redefines the Gaeltacht as was...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Specifically on amendment No. 351, in my name and related to the obligation to prepare a strategy on economic development, the Minister has referred us to the obligation to prepare a strategy related to the creation, improvement and preservation of sustainable places and communities. Section 46(2)(b), which refers to the protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage, including the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that every area will have an economic development but the point is that for the Gaeltacht areas to thrive, the economic development plan for the whole local authority area will need to take into account the needs of that Gaeltacht community in respect of protection of the language and linguistical cultural heritage. That is not arguing for a piecemeal approach or anything like...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: To clarify, I have not discussed amendment No. 390. Was it included in one of the groups the Ministers put forward? Perhaps I missed it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I know. I am indicating to the Chair that after speaking to amendment No. 430, I wish to speak to amendment No. 390.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We will deal with amendment No. 430 first.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 430 concerns consultation with the Office of the Planning Regulator before preparation of a development plan. There are wider issues in that regard we will discuss elsewhere. I have concerns about those provisions in the Bill. However, specifically on amendment No. 430, it simply seeks that development plans be consistent with language plans, as we discussed. We have gone...