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- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: In this group of amendments Nos. 1 to 19, inclusive, I propose to speak on amendments Nos. 1, 6 and 16, which are in my name and that of Senator McDowell. Amendment No. 1 relates to the Title section of the Bill. I raised this previously. At the outset, I will say that I want to work as efficiently as I possibly can with all of our colleagues in the House and with the Minister and his...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State. In the interests of clarity, I reiterate that we are dealing with amendments Nos. 1 to 19, inclusive, as well as Nos. 22 to 25, inclusive. I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am always conscious that people may be looking in at the debate.Sometimes, we need to set out the context of what we are doing and what we are about. I will take the...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: There are a few bats here.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: First, I agree with my colleagues on the proposed guillotining of the Planning and Development Bill. We will deal with that later. I wrote to the Leader, and I thank her and her office for agreeing to follow up on the suggestion of a debate and statements regarding the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders that was...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I will not go over what Senator Higgins has said. I first welcome the Minister here today. It is good to see him. The Minister will be aware that on this Stage, we have 775 amendments, so we are not going get through them. I am sure he has also heard the discourse, upset and anxiety of some Members of the House on that but we are where we are. This is part of form for Government. It is...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 79: In page 71, to delete line 30.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 92: In page 81, to delete line 29.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: The amendments in my name and that of my colleague, Senator McDowell are amendments Nos. 92, 99, 102, 105 and 108. I will speak to amendments Nos. 92, 99 and 102. We have talked about deleting the reference to the regulator in this section. The Minister has briefed us on the Planning Regulator. I welcome the Government amendment No. 716 which deals with this somewhat. How he appoints the...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for his response to the amendments. I take on board his comments on the Office of the Planning Regulator. We are talking about the office rather than the personality. The Minister made those points well. As regards timelines, the periodic critical review that is part of his vision will clearly happen first. It should feed into the Minister's proposals in amendment...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 99: In page 88, lines 31 and 32, to delete “and the Office of the Planning Regulator”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 102: In page 89, to delete lines 12 to 14.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 103: In page 89, to delete line 23.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 105: In page 90, to delete lines 31 to 41, to delete pages 91 to 103, and in page 104, to delete lines 1 to 5.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 108: In page 94, to delete lines 24 to 39, to delete pages 95 to 103, and in page 104, to delete lines 1 to 5.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Given that the senior Minister has now gone, having responded to the amendments, I do not expect the Minister of State to change that. It gives me an opportunity to talk about two of the amendments out of this group before us that are very pertinent to the Minister of State as a member of the Green Party. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, has dealt...