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

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 390 outlines a specific Gaeltacht housing and population strategy as necessary to tackle the Gaeltacht housing emergency, and that population housing objectives for the Gaeltacht need to be identified to ensure that these communities thrive. It is to insert an obligation to prepare Gaeltacht housing population development strategies, where the planning authority's functional...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: No. I want to come in just on 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: Sorry. Yes, I had been looking to come in on amendment No. 30. I have been looking to come in for a while on amendment No. 390 while this is being discussed. I absolutely hear what the Minister says about the priority area plans, but our amendment No. 390 does not advocate a one-size-fits-all approach. It is absolutely appropriate to a planning Bill to put in a provision that there will...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask about that because this is a change. An awful lot of the text in this consolidated Bill is taken from the 2000 Act consolidating and updating it. In respect of a table like this, one would expect it to be updated so obviously a conscious decision has been taken somewhere not to follow the approach. Will the Minister give us the rationale for why the decision has been taken to...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: To add to that, we have been given different rationales for the Bill, but one of the overall ones is the provision of a consolidated Bill that has clarity and is user-friendly such that practitioners or people engaged in the planning process can pick it up and find the areas they are looking for through the different sections at the front. To be fair, while it is a long Bill it does that, so...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On my amendment, if the Minister was willing to accept the table and wanted to create greater clarity and wanted to put in the directive numbers where they have not been listed I would be happy with that. It would not be an issue. Looking at it though, the ones where the directive numbers are not listed are the very well-known directives like the habitats directive and the birds directive....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: So if the table gave that information as to what parts of the Bill the directive was giving effect to, according to the Attorney General's advice that would be fine.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is fair enough. It is just that as we have drilled into that, the issues that have been raised by the Attorney General could actually be dealt with. We could have that table and it could have that information about what parts of the Bill-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: No, that is what I am saying. I am saying that based on what I have heard the Minister say, my understanding, and it is just my understanding so the Minister can contradict it if he wishes, as I am sure he will, is that we could have this table for the purposes of clarity and reference the relevant parts of the Bill in this table to address the concerns of the Attorney General. That would...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I too want to know why the Minister is proposing the word "expedient" here, given its definition include actions and behaviours that are immoral and improper. Why is that appropriate language to be putting in a planning Bill, given how seriously we all take planning? This section centralises control with the Minister. It gives him or her particular powers. I am very concerned at the...