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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Moynihan put it clearly that this is about the public having information. The public are the eyes, ears and watchdogs of development. Speaking as someone who was a councillor for many years, it was the public who brought planning issues to our attention for us to take to the planners. In many cases, people consistently went to their planning authorities but did not get any...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 44: In page 56, to delete lines 28 to 30 and substitute the following: “(2) Subject to subsection (1), a relevant declaration shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings relating to the act, operation or change in use in respect of which the relevant declaration was made.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: We will not let you.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Senator McDowell is a colleague of mine but he is also a former Attorney General and a very experienced legal practitioner. He has raised a very serious question. We have to deal with what it is before us today, in the present moment. We simply do not know how the Government is going to conduct itself in relation to this Bill. We know it was guillotined in the Dáil and it is proposed...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I fully support the amendment. Senator Currie has been very consistent on this issue for a long time in the Seanad. It makes absolute sense. There is a huge amount of unregulated telecommunications infrastructure around the country. In my local authority area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, there has been a constant call for strategic grid mapping of this infrastructure. We see it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. This is a really important process about the provision of overarching policy at the top of the hierarchy. I want to know about the public consultation, which is very important. Public consultation needs to be facilitated and supported. It needs to be advertised and mobilised in a way that is user friendly and that reaches out across the country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Is the Department having, regional, face-to-face, town-hall style meetings? Is that envisaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: It might be worth considering because it might be the best way to capture another demographic and age group of people. We need to have as broad and comprehensive an engagement as possible. I thank Ms Walsh for the comprehensive overview and I wish her well with the process.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I concur with most of what Senators Higgins and Warfield have said. There is no point repeating it. I would like to move amendments Nos 78, 81 and 84. I will explain the rationale behind those amendments now. Section 23 deals with procedure for reviewing the national planning framework. Amendment No. 78 seeks to delete line 14 on page 69 and insert the phrase “local authorities...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 78: In page 69, to delete line 14 and substitute the following: “(c) local authorities and their elected representatives,".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 81: In page 69, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(k) prescribed bodies.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 84: In page 70, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(6) The Minister shall, within 10 days of publication under subsection (5) lay a copy of the revised or new National Planning Framework so published before each House of the Oireachtas before a required debate in both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I intend to move amendments Nos. 90, 94, 96, 103, 107 and 110. I do not propose to speak on any of them because they are self-explanatory. We will deal with them in due course. Colleagues will have read the amendments. I will leave it at that. On the national planning statements, I take up where the Leader left off. I thank her for her ongoing support for one-off rural housing. She...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: What of the rural housing guidelines?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: On planning and housing.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I was keeping an eye out. I was a guiding light for the Senator.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: With regard to the national planning statements, the Minister of State confirmed to the House, and that was new to me, so I thank him, that the Attorney General is now reviewing the draft rural housing guidelines. That is important and is progress. We had not heard about it before. What is the likely timeframe for this? Is it envisaged to be for the whole summer?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: It is an important point to make and to follow up because the Minister of State said it and it is progress. At least we are another stage along the road. Clearly, the Attorney General will advise the Government. That is his call and his business. In line with the Minister of State's response, however, I reiterate my call that the message has to go out loud and clear and it would be...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: We are.