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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 123: In page 118, to delete lines 14 to 16 and substitute the following: “(3) A development management statement shall include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way shall be identified...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 124: In page 119, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(x) provisions, plans or existing rural housing,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 125: In page 121, to delete lines 1 to 39, and in page 122, to delete lines 1 to 19.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 127: In page 122, to delete lines 36 to 38.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 128: In page 123, to delete line 21.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 129: In page 124, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(x) prescribed body,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 136: In page 148, to delete lines 16 to 40, to delete pages 149 to 162, and in page 163, to delete lines 1 to 31.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 137: In page 148, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(1) Nothing in this section shall be commenced without consultation, approval and explicit permission listed in the National Planning Statement.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 141: In page 150, to delete lines 6 and 7 and substitute the following: “(11) A direction under paragraph (b) of subsection (9) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas by the Minister before it is put to a vote either as a motion or a Bill.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Amendment No. 152 forms part of Chapter 5, entitled Development Plans. It includes Part 3 of the Bill, entitled Plans, Policy and Related Matters. Amendment No. 152 seeks to delete lines 18 to 40 on page 183 of the Bill, to delete pages 184 to 186, and on page 187, to delete lines 1 to 31. This was proposed by Senator McDowell and I support it. The rationale behind the amendment is to...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I do not think the Minister of State was in the House when I referred earlier to the Green Party's planning policy document of 2023. I acknowledge the significant recommendation by his party in regard to the Planning Regulator. He is the lead man in his party on this area given his brief in the Department. The proposal is for a national planning information agency. This Green Party...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: The Minister of State's party needs to get it ready.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 152: In page 183, to delete lines 18 to 40, to delete pages 184 to 186, and in page 187, to delete lines 1 to 31.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 154: In page 187, to delete lines 32 to 40, to delete pages 188 to 190, and in page 191, to delete lines 1 to 26.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 156: In page 194, to delete lines 25 to 41, and in page 195, to delete lines 1 to 23.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I concur with some of the remarks from Senator Fitzpatrick on the bicycle shelter. It is somewhat disappointing that we have politicians, some of them who are members of the commission here, in the Houses, queuing up to point the blame, saying that the commission had no knowledge or involvement. We have a commission that runs this House and should have known. The construction of it has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: There was no inference. I never said anything about spending. I said they should have known what was going on.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Let us not start defending the case.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I am talking to the public outside of here. This is a body - the commission - which is paid and has a function, a responsibility and oversight for the running of these Houses. I want to put it on notice that there is a proposal currently before the commission to do extensive changes to our Library beneath this beautiful room. It will cost millions of euro to do and to operate. Let us be...