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- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 121: In page 84, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(v) where a regional spatial and economic strategy affects the provision or existence of cultural infrastructure and facilities, the need to protect such infrastructure and facilities, and”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 125: In page 94, line 23, to delete “, or” and substitute “.”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 126: In page 94, to delete line 24.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 127: In page 94, to delete line 37.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 128: In page 95, to delete line 13.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 129: In page 96, to delete line 11.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 130: In page 97, between lines 23 and 34 to insert the following: “(15) Where a regional assembly demonstrates that the regional spatial and economic strategy is consistent with the National Planning Framework and the National Maritime Planning Framework and to be brought into alignment with a National Planning Statement would lead to inconsistency with either...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 131: In page 98, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(4) Where a provision is subject to a draft direction in accordance with subsection (2) but that provision is considered a protective measure such provision shall continue to have effect pending the decision of the Minister under section 40(4).”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 133: In page 103, to delete lines 15 to 22.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There is also section 62 whereby the Office of the Planning Regulator can require them to make a variation, so there are major issues.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The point is-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The point is that there were powers to make variation.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am keen to move towards votes as well but it is important to mention the powers to vary were in the 2000 Act. In the powers to vary in this Act, there are differences and the Office of the Planning Regulator is an issue in relation to that. That is completely legitimate. It is not about any individual but about concerns we have about the powers in section 62. I was not going to raise it...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 135: In page 104, line 18, to delete “10 years” and substitute “6 years”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 137: In page 104, line 19, to delete “8 years” and substitute “4 years”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I share the frustration of others. As colleagues have pointed out, some of the premise for this entire project, this giant planning Bill that is being pushed through in an unusual way without proper process and proper scrutiny, is the suggestion that it somehow represents taking action on the housing crisis. We need to remember that planning is not and has not been the cause of the housing...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It was opposed.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, this is the Seanad. It has been 21 hours in the Seanad.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State introduced the analogy in terms of primary legislation. Rather than Green Papers or White Papers, we are talking about primary legislation. The language is interesting. There reference in our Standing Orders, which were, of course, agreed by the Government as the Standing Orders of the Houses of the Parliament, is not to a draft statutory instrument but, rather to a...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is the Government.