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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I accept the point about the national biodiversity action plan or the all-Ireland pollinator plan because, God almighty, our legislation is complex. Things are amended and plans changed. I appreciate Deputy Eolin Ó Broin being supportive on the likes of the Water Framework Directive and the floods directive. While it is possibly covered by the current wording, we all know that one of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I will not press it with a view to discussing it with the Minister and his officials before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to keep it live, subject to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am fine with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 30:In page 24, to delete line 6 and substitute “as soon as practicable following submission to the members of the authority.”. The amendment relates to the reports on public consultations which chief executives of local authorities will be required to make. We argue that such reports should be made public and published before the councillors make any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 39:In page 32, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(b) consistency with the national transition objective established in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015;". I will withdraw the amendment as I will discuss with the Minister's officials how we might deal with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 50:In page 38, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“(c) is failing to achieve a desirable level of compliance with planning law in its area through the exercise of its enforcement functions in Part VIII,”. To a certain extent this relates back to what I was discussing earlier regarding the different performances of local authorities in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I accept the Minister's points regarding amendments Nos. 51 and 52 and will withdraw them. I am pleased he is willing to consider slightly revised wording for amendment No. 50. That is welcome and I appreciate it. I look forward to an agreed wording being proposed on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I also have a question. It refers back to what we were saying about democratic accountability. In my experience, one of the ways one can get democratic accountability with regulators is through Oireachtas committees, whereby regulators must appear before committees for hearings. I wish to check that with the Minister's officials. I looked in the Bill for clarity on whether future...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 57:In page 44, line 12, after "planning" to insert "and sustainable development".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: There were considered to involve a potential charge on the Exchequer. The Minister has indicated that he may come back with a revised wording to achieve the objectives of the amendments. I look forward to that happening.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 66:In page 46, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 28 (Ministerial guidelines) of Principal Act 9. Section 28 of the Principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2015) is amended by deleting subsection (1C).”. You might have an inclination, Chair, as to the reason behind the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister for reminding me that the provision was not just about building standards in terms of energy use it was also about such issues as the number of car parking spaces, the size of apartments and the basic fabric of the building. Whatever one's views on the specifics I clearly believe the then Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, was wrong to reduce the standards at that time....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Ó Broin is right. The issue in Dún Laoghaire was energy; apartment sizes were more of an issue in Dublin City Council. The reality of that diktat, as I saw down the road from me a month afterwards, was a revised planning application and the whole development going down to the minimum standard. The Dublin city councillors, their planners, the city architects and others had...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That change has made it less likely that we will get the real high-quality, family-type neighbourhoods mixed in. In that particular instance, it was a restriction on a local authority that I do not think was appropriate. It was a sledgehammer, applied across the country. Different local authorities are working with different circumstances. The key thing we have to do is bring down the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: No, he said the minimum has to be the same as the maximum. He is restricting the-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I understand I cannot press it but I will come back to it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 68:In page 47, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“10. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (2):“(2A) A planning authority shall, unless a derogation from the provisions of the Water Framework Directive has been granted, refuse permission for any project which may cause a deterioration of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am nervous about mentioning the word "lawyer" at all. Poor old Deputy Ó Broin and others have had too many lawyers in too many weeks, as I am sure is the case with the Minister. Our intention was not so much to refer to the directive in general but to a recent ECJ decision. I might withdraw the amendment in this case. I will go into the legal assessment and come back on Report...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eamon Ryan: That is exactly what this amendment is saying. We need to give guidance.